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How to Optimize SaaS Development Costs

Up and Running

How to optimize SaaS startup development costs. In this blog, we are going to discuss some of the important practices to optimize product development and remove unnecessary startup expenses. Most SaaS startups want to launch with more features because of the belief that it will help them increase the adoption.

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Twitter Link Roundup #155 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: 3 Essentials for Customer Service – [link]. 6 Ways You Can Improve Churn Rate and Increase Revenue | KISSmetrics blog - [link].

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

This thought was in my mind as I was reading Lean Analytics a new book by my friend Alistair Croll and his collaborator Benjamin Yoskovitz. In this post, we’ll look at each of the four steps in the Lean Analytics Cycle in more detail. Let’s say, for example, that you’re trying to lower the churn rate on an application.

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When Customers Make You Smarter

Steve Blank

. —— We’re into week 9 of teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) at UCSF teaching with a team of veteran venture capitalists. Among the 28 startups in the Digital Health cohort is Tidepool. The class has talked to ~2,200 customers to date.

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Startups and financial models for SAAS companies

BeyondVC

Financial models for startups are important from a big picture perspective, but I never like to get mired in the full details as things always change in the early stages. In my mind some of these key variables include new bookings, growth of deferred revenue, churn rate, cost of acquiring new customers, and obviously cash.

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Startup Stories: Looking back on the acquisition of our first 1,000 customers

The Next Web

The best timing is when you are adding 1-3 customers each day and you will see the improvement in the churn rate. Yeah, I’m a big believer at being lean and to always practice continuous deployment. So we brought a support person into the family and literally she did wonders. In retrospect, I even think we brought her too late.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

I founded a startup years ago, and that’s how I started getting a taste of it. The startup didn’t work out, but I found ways to be around it, whether it was on the sales side in Goldman for a few years. How does that translate into advice that you give to your startups? I like the get fit and lean in.

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