A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Your product is designed with natural tripwires to trigger other pricing ( Freemium model ), or not (business model left as an exercise to your future self). Requires venture funding because you have no income, and if you’re successful you’ll need lots of people and tech to run the business. . $1/mo

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Bootstrapping Technical Review B2C Sales Cycle 294

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers.

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India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

With enterprise customers, this would result in tremendous exit barriers, making sales cycles long and involved, which a small startup will find hard to withstand. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. PowerStores.in.

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India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

Think about it – if you’re using MailChimp and make let’s say $100 in sales for every send. It doesn’t mean it’s a bad business – in fact, it could be a very good business for you. 3) Your business model seems flawed OR is not the right fit I talked a lot about unit economics and sales cycles in my last post.

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Sales Cycle Differentiation Early Stage Bootstrapping 54

Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

Think about it – if you’re using MailChimp and make let’s say $100 in sales for every send. It doesn’t mean it’s a bad business – in fact, it could be a very good business for you. 3) Your business model seems flawed OR is not the right fit I talked a lot about unit economics and sales cycles in my last post.

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Sales Cycle Differentiation Early Stage Bootstrapping 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale. Sales cycles matter though. Sales cycle, as a consideration, also works the opposite way.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale. Sales cycles matter though. Sales cycle, as a consideration, also works the opposite way.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48