crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The Future of Business Models Will Be Centered on Crowds - crowdspring.co/16aTTiD. A Startup’s Minimum Revenue Per Employee - crowdspring.co/GNlKua. “Investing early & often in customer success is essential to keeping a fast-growing SaaS business’s momentum.” ” - crowdspring.co/16aZ5Ts.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Conventional wisdom suggests that the most important metrics for a startup - such as unit economics, cost of acquisition, lifetime value, churn rates - typically get better with time. Take growth rate as a simple one. Thus, more mature companies naturally have slower growth rates than younger ones. in 2009 to $11.80

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Michael Kassing.

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