ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers. 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. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. 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. All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 1, 2011

The team is led by Girish Mathrubootham and Shanmugam Krishnasamy, who have their roots in Zoho, a SaaS company that has revolutionized the category by drastically undercutting the CRM price-point by leveraging India to build a $100M+ 100% bootstrapped business. See: 1M/1M Incubation Radar: Freshdesk ]. Loyaltepays.com.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). Mixing metaphors, the attempt to accelerate the scaling process is a bit like asking a baby to be incubated in six months (dangerous). So VCs will need to invest.

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