ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

For the uninitiated, Zoho introduced a CRM system that was one-tenth the price of Salesforce.com and penetrated the lower end of the market using an Indian cost structure. 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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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

In this excerpt from The Lean Entrepreneur , by using fishing as an analogy, Brant and Patrick reveal how market segmentation influences your business model and why “For Whom” is as important as “What” to build. Market segments drive your business model. It was a fairly organic thing.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Just take a look at these three channels: Facebook : 171% Increase in Cost per Thousand Impressions, or CPM ( 2017 ). If you have high churn in your SaaS business, this tidal wave may be lethal. Two classic SaaS GtM strategies are at risk of being disrupted: the sales-led and marketing-led GtM strategies. Tidal Waves.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2024

So the thing is, those frameworks, it helps you organize a working and functional business model, but it's not a business model and it's not a profit model, and it's not your pricing model, and it's not the structure for what agreements you create with your team, with your clients. But that comes at a cost.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Here’s a short summary of the discussion: Guy, you launched Snyk in 2015, and a large part of your success was driven by your freemium model. With COVID, we’re getting into a world with tighter budgets and likely longer sales cycles. The tricky question is how do you define the threshold of value you provide?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

You can check out part one of this series here: Part 1: Which Is The Best Business Model For Your Startup – B2B Or B2C? B2B” – means that you are selling a product or service to other businesses. Doing so adds on to start-up costs and, moreover, it creates a liability from day one. What Is “B2B&# ?

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Sensitivity analysis is a financial modeling tool used to analyse how changes in the value of one or more independent variables would affect other dependent variables. For example, “How will unit cost affect our capital requirements and how will product pricing affect revenue?” Cost of goods sold (COGS).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 4: Business Model. I had planned a balance of large companies and SMB/divisional sales but have changed my thinking. Reasons: cost of sales executives, long sales cycles, deep functional requirements.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Very simply, your cost to acquire a customer needs to be lower than the value of that customer (lifetime value). As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Very simply, your cost to acquire a customer needs to be lower than the value of that customer (lifetime value). As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

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. For example, some VCs have such deep pockets that they can throw a lot of money at a company to wait out a long sales cycle. Sometimes this can be incredibly difficult to see.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

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. For example, some VCs have such deep pockets that they can throw a lot of money at a company to wait out a long sales cycle. Sometimes this can be incredibly difficult to see.

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Sales Cycle Differentiation Early Stage Bootstrapping 48

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

We own the robots, so you’re still expensing the cost of the service. 20K one-time) from the sale of the robot, but they would end up with a recurring revenue model, which would make for a much better business model for the company rather than selling complex widgets. There is no risk for you to try it. .

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 26, 2008

I have written a number of times about frictionless sales and how on-demand companies have a huge opportunity to reduce their sales and marketing costs and subsequently scale their business more efficiently. Follow that with a 3 month implementation process to get the customer happy.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 13, 2015

SaaS is no longer a new business model. Traditionally, selling to governments has been associated with long sales cycles and conservative buyers. are still primarily using legacy on-premise solutions in various aspects of their business. Sure, and I’m actively looking for those.

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Sales Cycle Government Demand Distribution 60

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, many a BDC CEO has initiated a consultant to study cost cutting issues before announcing a significant layoff. There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. Given all the demands on your time, the hours spent educating a consultant regarding your business are costly.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

Sorry, but ABM is not B2B, nor is it right for all markets, business models, or companies (just like every company should not be running freemium aka PLG for acquisition.) Is ABM right for your business? The lower ACV also means the switching costs are low, churn is likely higher & the lifetime value of a customer is lower.

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IP Marketing Technical Review Software Review 98

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2016

WeVue co-founder Taylor Wallace told me he doesn’t have a lot of time for training in the competitive software development industry, so he hires the “naturally curious” to fit with the company’s product-oriented business model. Losing an employee can cost up to 60 percent of his or her annual salary.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Most importantly, they have lots of data about the unit economics of their business.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Working backwards means looking at the components that make up Profitability: Profits (EBITDA) = Revenue – Cost of Goods Sold – Expenses So to focus the management team on driving profitability, we should also track and measure Revenue, CoGS, and Expenses. SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? Obvious, isn’t it?

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

As one example, think about forecasting sales based on market potential and competition, rather than simply on historical results by salesperson. If we see that our total accounts are underpenetrated in one market, can we test how much it costs and how long it takes to acquire new ones?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 23, 2017

How to Use Facebook Ads to Drive Sustainable Traffic & Boost Sales written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Regardless of your business model, incorporating Facebook ads into your marketing funnel can be a dependable way to drive customers to your site and, ultimately, boost sales.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

2) What is the business model and the potential unit economics? Certain investors tend to gravitate towards certain business models. At a high level, business is simple! :) You bring revenue in and your costs send money out the door. You want your revenue to be higher than your costs. Or in between?

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

2) What is the business model and the potential unit economics? Certain investors tend to gravitate towards certain business models. At a high level, business is simple! :) You bring revenue in and your costs send money out the door. You want your revenue to be higher than your costs. Or in between?

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Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 4, 2004

Adam Bosworth has an interesting post on the evolution of software and why software delivered as a service will be the business model of the future. From an evolutionary perspective, the ASP business model is quite interesting to examine. The ASP model is certainly one way of accomplishing simplicity.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

With the advent of the web and the multifaceted programming features of WordPress , many younger entrepreneurs have the ability to go into business for themselves very easily and very cheaply, but very haphazardly. What may be a cost-effective business now could be a nightmare waiting to happen. What Is “B2C&# ?

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 16, 2012

It's really questionable whether this constant capturing, slicing and sharing of my life has any viable business model whatsoever. The sites that have figured out business models are the ones that built in commercial presences from the beginning, or made the sites more optimal for commercial usage.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 7, 2005

As you know, I am enamored by frictionless sales. Frictionless sales means reducing the pain for customers to adopt and use a service/product and consequently reducing the cost of sales and marketing to get a customer and generate revenue. It means more qualified leads and a shorter sales cycle.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.

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The Next Web

MAY 12, 2013

Sales cycles were long and unpredictable. Other than a few dollars coming in here and there to cover costs, we were basically running dry,” Newsgeek’s source says. Like a Shakespearean tragedy, the new model proved as faulty as the others. When one day it doesn’t, neither do the companies who relied on it.

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