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

Cracking the Code

You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts. However, as we know from the cable industry, subscription businesses can be very profitable over time. For a direct, enterprise sales business model, these thresholds are likely to be around $80,000-100,000 CMRR (approx. $1-1.2M Michael Kassing.

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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.