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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. 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. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

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If I can copy your business by just looking around, then your company isn’t going anywhere anyway. You don’t have a defensible business model. Not that they were trying to take advantage of me necessarily, but it happened because of the deal structure. One year is a long time in the tech world.