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Snyk: How Freemium Can Help Your Start-up Grow from Series A to $2.6B in 30 Months

Cracking the Code

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. The company’s success has been largely driven by its developer-led freemium model, going from Series A funding to a valuation of $2.6B

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Where I use LinkedIn: * I definitely use LinkedIn for Specific Requests - Ex. event I did last fall. Its been great to zero in on very specific skillsets.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model. Next Generation Business Models Because a number of smart entrepreneurs realized the importance of lowering CAC, they created new business models such as Open Source, SaaS, Freemium, etc.

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. But how does authority convert to revenue?

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Magnificent Mobile Website And App Analytics: Reports, Metrics, How-to!

Occam's Razor

Transactions, Revenue and Ecommerce Conversion Rate. This is a better view than the standard report, but this tab is mostly for your boss (with mildly interesting data around engagement ) and for your IT/Dev team as they decide which platforms to optimize the experience for or prioritize first. What do you learn from this tab?

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. As an example, Joel says that there is a chief revenue officer who is solely responsible for bringing in revenue to StackExchange. Pricing information. 29:45 minutes.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.