Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Consumer approach to software for business users. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 4: Business Model. Folksonomy.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business Model I would like to propose that in addition to team, product, and market, there is actually a fourth, equally important, core element of startups, which is the need for a viable business model. For more on the topic of Viral Growth, refer to my blog post on that topic here.)

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

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.) In these examples I was selling enterprise software where the vocab matched perfectly.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Since SaaS businesses (or any other subscription-based business) are different from standard software businesses, there are some interesting elements that we will uncover. VC Venture capital Viral growth Plugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes Copyright © David Skok 2009, 2010. Thanks for adding to the debate.

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

BeyondVC

AUGUST 26, 2008

There are various grades of friction between these two extreme points like open source business models, software as a service, and reseller/OEM-type models as other forms of packaging and delivering a product/service. Seizing on this, investors bought into online-software companies in a big way.

Cost 60

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

It’s only going to get more complicated and it’s important to have the right analytics software that can handle it. Like any model it has its pros and cons. One of my favorite examples of this is the design of viral loops. sales page, cart, purchase, etc.) And I think this is really the point.

Analytics 78

Analytics Metrics Channel Software Review 78

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. “Just say no” to on-premise deployments The most important part of Software-as-a-Service isn’t “Software” it’s “Service”! Cracking The Code. at 11:09 AM.

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Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48