Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The sales productivity ratio (measured with the Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC ratio) are also fairly similar for the two groups (except for a small cap dip in Q4 09) and therefore do not explain the difference Why is scale so much rewarded by public markets? Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Portfolio. (3).

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

The ff Venture Capital portfolio is evidence of how much we believe this, e.g., our companies Alerts.com , Gobbler.com , Identified.com , Patents.com , Phone.com , and Plated.com. However, they remain key to your email identity, and fundamental to your marketing and even capital-raising. A bad domain name can sink you.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 22, 2018

This is research that Google conducts because it’s information that its advertising customers would find useful. Keep in mind that authenticity increasingly matters to customers. Design Typecasting IRL A very talented friend who designs brands took on a restaurant project that went a little viral. He was stuck.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm .

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

You can also get great recommendations from your existing network; just be sure to research portfolios, websites and references thoroughly before making a decision to work with a particular developer. Familiarize yourself with the agency’s portfolio and get recommendations from colleagues whenever possible.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 30, 2013

For startups, the message is that you should develop your business in the long tail, focusing on those customers in your market that the incumbents don’t care about. First, customers in the long tail usually require a smaller feature set which means that you can get a MVP into the market faster.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2009

One way to measure this productivity is to look at the Customer Acqusition Cost ratio that I have defined in a previous post. Just some food for thought as you build your investment portfolio. In other words, how much of the decline in revenue growth is due to signing up fewer customer vs lower revenues from each new customer.

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Unfortunately I made the mistake of thinking I knew the customer or user. These business would scale on the sheer virality of their communities. Unfortunately, when the products were launched, we had realized that they really weren't our customers. I had a business in the portfolio doing fairly well.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

While this sounds simple, there is a ton of work that goes into helping our portfolio companies get to a successful Series A. Finally, we try to prewire the Series A investment by getting our portfolio companies to meet with the right partners at the right firms early on before they even need money.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Portfolio. (3). Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. The recession created opportunities! Labels: Cloud Computing , SaaS , sales and marketing. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Add RSS feed.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

A few days ago, Bessemer West Coast SaaS Practice - David Cowan , Byron Deeter and myself, hosted a CFO Dinner for our SaaS portfolio at John Bentleys in Redwood City. Fifteen CFOs participated - about half of them from Bessemer portfolio SaaS companies (Cornerstone On Demand, Intacct. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare?

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Our goal was to be the best first check partner for enterprise founders, bringing the value add of a VC firm while moving with the speed and conviction of an angel investor. We set out to build boldstart at the height of mobile app mania and viral growth and were faced with questions about our focus on enterprise and NYC.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The internet is your new channel and Technology Enabled Service providers are among the few partners that actually care if you succeed (more.) Employees are now powerful customers, not just their managers! 2 comments: Peter Cohen Managing Partner, SaaS Marketing Strategy Advisors. Portfolio. (3). Build Employee Software.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

With the dotcom bubble burst in 2000, risk-averse investors wanted to invest in more than just a business plan – they wanted to see real customers and real revenue before they stumped up the money. Investors scaled back in early-stage investments and used those funds to help current portfolio companies get through the bad economy.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

The SaaS growth recovery does not seem to take a "V" shape 2) Sales productivity is ramping up: bottom was hit in the first half of 2009 However, the sales and productivity of the group, measured by the median "Customer Acquisition Cost ratio" or "CAC ratio", seems to be recovering more steeply. Portfolio. (3). Post a Comment.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

It’s simple, it’s clean, and it means something to our core customer. My partner and I locked ourselves in a room for about 4 hours. Donating a portion of all our profits to veteran and cancer research charities establishes our brand as a revolution in companies that give back to the community rather than leech off of their customers.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Bessemer was also heavily represented with David Cowan , managing partner and co-founder of VeriSign ( see his post about the event ), Rob Stavis , BVP’s New York-based managing partner who led our investment in Skype, Byron Deeter , partner and founder of Trigo and our COO/managing partner Ed Colloton. at 8:53 PM.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Or their could be deals from two or more different categories of customers. We could do this in several ways: Cross sell to add additional products Up sell to add seats, or premium features Develop a scalable pricing matrix that does a better job of charging higher end customers that are willing to pay more.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

Although you probably think of financial portfolio when I mention diversification, there are other areas where diversification is desirable. What is the viral aspect of the idea? Today, I still remember the bitter lesson and try to stay focused on only one major project, CoachFire. For example, diversification.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

× At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. We are the leader in the professional domain with viral growth.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

and so I think its a very, very big bet“ - Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Indeed, the opportunity is large: with 11m+ SMBs in the US only spending more than $300B in IT.but so far nobody managed to "crack the code" and current sales model are facing diminishing returns: (1) HT companies have little insights in their SMB customers (e.g.,

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Custom Programming. If your presentation is compelling and detailed enough, you might be able to get them to become a full partner. Inflexibility – If you are bringing me on as a partner, I become equally interested in seeing it succeed. Businesses. Business Articles. Accounting. Copywriting Tips. General Business.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Very simply, your cost to acquire a customer needs to be lower than the value of that customer (lifetime value). Forget about traction and hockey stick growth.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Very simply, your cost to acquire a customer needs to be lower than the value of that customer (lifetime value). Forget about traction and hockey stick growth.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

The company had the chance of selling a very sticky product to large customers paying upfront, so there was no need to improve the sales bonuses based on cash collection and multi-year contracts. Upsells are typically worth more than renewal and less than new customers so we found that 50% of new MRR worked pretty well. Portfolio. (3).

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Rob Go

MARCH 10, 2012

This equates to 3-4 new investments per year per partner, which is the pace at which we think we can be very active with companies during their first few years of life. By spreading out our investment period over several years, we minimize the amount of exposure that the entire portfolio might have to sudden shocks in the market.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

It is true that the SaaS model faces some challenges like service reliability, data privacy, lower level of customization, integration with existing applications, vendor viability concerns. whereas traditional software companies of this size have a growth rate of less than 10% and revenue multiples of 2-2.5x.

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Rob Go

MAY 14, 2013

I joked that the success was eerily well timed with him joining Spark as a Venture Partner, although of course, the development of the game was well in the works before then. The reverse is that I often see less successful companies start out very complicated, or require customers to make too many leaps.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You really want to see how your company treats its employees, treats its customers, treats the environment, taking a longer-term view." I'm general partner at MarsBio VC and Director of The Corona Initiative. As he explains, it also has "a diversified bottom line where it's not just about near-term profits. Robert Rhinehart : Hi.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I’ll give you an example with my own startup LaunchBit and how our understanding of the problem and the customer became more refined over time: V1: Helping online marketers get customers profitably. V2: Helping online marketers who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. But the execution is hard.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I’ll give you an example with my own startup LaunchBit and how our understanding of the problem and the customer became more refined over time: V1: Helping online marketers get customers profitably. V2: Helping online marketers who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. But the execution is hard.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

As an Eloqua customer and just getting done reading the Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS and am working on being able to share it potential clients. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Portfolio. (3). Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. Tuesday, May 25, 2010. "10

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

They might both be accomplished writers or editors, but for a particular project, each partner focuses on a single role, and their different foci make the partnership stronger. As investors, we are active partners to the founders and CEO. I am the invited partner in the room who is here to help this company succeed.”.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

I’m your host, Marcus, and today we’re talking to Josh Breinlinger, who currently works as a senior associate at Sigma Partners, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park. But on the very first sales call that I was doing, I was talking to the customer and showed them a demo of the oDesk platform, and they basically just took it away.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. ” Take advantage of being on-demand and allow customers to try and buy your service with as little friction as possible. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. 16 comments: BdH. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

Lets call this ratio the Customer Acquisition Cost ratio or CAC ratio. The definition becomes for the last quarter of 2007: CAC Ratio = (GM (Q4 07) - GM (Q307)) x 4 / S&M costs (Q307) A CAC ratio of one would be equivalent to breakeven marginally on a new customer in one year. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio.

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