Roger Ehrenberg (IA) writes about mentors in his post  Mentors: an essential engine for growth. Fred Wilson (USV) has his normal MBA Mondays series with a guest post from Andy Sack titled Revenue Based Financing.  VC Post of the Day ehrenberg mentors o'donnell revenue based financing vc post of the day wilson MORE >>

This week they were testing their hypotheses about Revenue Models: what are customers really willing to pay for? Are you generating transactional or recurring revenues? The team looked at the potential revenue and concluded that the outlook for this business with this customer segment was dismal. Week 7 of the class. No more.  MORE >>

What would happen if you turned off your company’s growth engine? If your salespeople stayed home and you stopped all marketing, would you continue to bring in revenue in 2012? Your competitors are also starting the year with $0 in revenues, with varying levels of run-off. Here are three tasks to get you started. 1, 2013. MORE >>

So here is Patrick McKenzie's brilliant talk at Business of Software 2011 on engineering your marketing outcomes. Patrick talks about types of marketing that use engineering skills and won't be rabidly opposed to your developers. We have lots of young engineers in the audience? Marketing comes naturally to some people. MORE >>

These are companies that generate revenue by offering a free product with an upsell or premium version. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 27, 2009 Three freemium strategies Im excited to see so much attention being paid to freemium businesses lately. You can reach for all the scale of a free service and still make money. for H. MORE >>