Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

You need to maintain explicit C-suite and Board buy-in for constant transformation through effective communication, highlighting the struggles of peer businesses, and establishing the right metrics. They grew sales by 28% in 2009, while most companies were hunkered down and losing share.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Some countries in Europe may have lost their AAA ratings, but they have not lost their appetite to innovate and create new online services. It is interesting to note that this model has been invented in Europe (Blablacar started in 2006) and while there have been some similar and more recent initiatives in the US (e.g., at 12:17 PM.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Arming & Aiming: How to handle sales objections at a startup – [link]. Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior – [link]. – [link].

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Compensating the sales force is a difficult task and the key is usually to keep things simple, so that each sales rep knows what he needs to optimize to make more money at the end of the quarter. which is very close to the typical 8% paid for sales commissions.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 6, 2007

SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Different models require different performance metrics. developed a white paper on performance metrics for Technology service Vendors (TSV) and this post present the key elements of his reflexion adapted for SaaS companies. The MRR is a great metrics, but it can be perfected.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. You may have an opinion on your market-entry strategy for Europe. Growth like this, this early in a company’s lifecycle rarely happens.

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ConversionXL

JULY 28, 2021

The change benefits marketers by allowing accurate tracking of user journeys across the web and mobile apps. With the introduction of GDPR laws in Europe and enhanced privacy online, it’s becoming more difficult to track users with cookies. 5 GA4 reports to get the best marketing insights. Machine learning replaces cookies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Speed Up Your Business Growth Through Experimentation written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Andrew Warden. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Andrew Warden. 17:16] Is there a small set of metrics that you rely on? [19:43] What would your answer be?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

This math works in a normal market…. Unfortunately, it’s no longer a normal market. All your assumptions about customers, sales cycle and most importantly, revenue, burn rate and runway are no longer true. If you are selling to businesses (a B-to-B market) have your customers’ sales dropped? Laying off people?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2023

Grow Your Business Faster Through Experimentation written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Andrew Warden. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Andrew Warden. 17:16] Is there a small set of metrics that you rely on? [19:43] Like this show? Great episode.

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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? market cap or even Salesforce at $17.5B Europe Consumer. (1).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. They refer to these differences as “ Red Flag” Metrics (or RFMs). Total number of logins also proved to be an important metric, though not as much so as the former two. times per day on average.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

But it wasn’t the tank as a technology, by itself, that allowed Nazi Germany to take over Western Europe in a matter of weeks. Conversely, the things you measure well, with easily understood and visible metrics, tend to improve without much extra push. For example, the tank was invented in the mid-1910s. 1 is measurement.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Europe Consumer. (1). sales and marketing. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

Let me start with a few addresses: 1355 Market Street. Incepted in 2012, Alignable’s platform hit the market in 2014, and since then, we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of business owners in North America join. SMBs account for 54% of all US sales. Full disclosure: NextView is an investor in Alignable. 2029 Stierlin Court.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

It’s among the very best CRO events in the world, and of course in Europe. Know your North Star Metric. Hint: it’s not usually a company-valued metric like revenue. Market shifts. 11 epic content marketing tactics: Create epic content. Sales/support follow up with useful content. Optimize for that.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Labels: Cloud Computing , SaaS , sales and marketing. Europe Consumer. (1). sales and marketing. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 12:41 PM.

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ConversionXL

JULY 18, 2019

A/B experiments a month, while those from Western Europe averaged only 7.7. There were other cross-Atlantic differences: Western Europe runs more A/B tests with DOM manipulation; the United States and Canada run twice as many split-URL experiences. Personalization in the European market and elsewhere may rise as more intelligent A.I.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing productivity. However, if the SaaS & Cloud computing industry is doing relatively well in this downturn, the recession has severely impacted the sales&marketing productivity of these companies, with longer sales cycle, smaller deal size and limited upsells opportunity.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Europe Consumer. (1). sales and marketing. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

After spending months and maybe years looking for product-market fit, you now proudly got a product and are ready to go to market. You have to invest time and money into building a sales and marketing team to acquire customers beyond early adopters. Equally as important is the understanding that sales take time.

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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. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 14, 2010

Europe Consumer. (1). sales and marketing. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

As the first segment to emerge in scale and the most application oriented, SaaS has lead the market to date with the largest market size, highest gross margins, and highest per-seat pricing. Study the Sales Learning Curve and Only Invest behind Success (more.) SaaS companies use different metrics to calculate renewals.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Labels: internet , sales and marketing. Europe Consumer. (1). sales and marketing. (10).

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Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

One of his secret: "Incentivize your marketing team on sales not leads" Jeff Jordan, CEO of OpenTable speaking about his IPO process: " Build relationships with key public investors 2-3 years before going public (Morgan Stanley, Fidelity and T. Labels: design , internet , sales and marketing. Europe Consumer. (1).

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

people born in Europe between 1918 and 1939; survivors of an aircrash; truck drivers who smoked between age 30 and 40).”. Did one group see one marketing message that the other didn’t? Customers that converted in the last year that came in through a bottom-of-the-funnel marketing campaign. Acquisition Efficiency.

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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. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Europe Consumer. (1). sales and marketing. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 10, 2009

Europe Consumer. (1). sales and marketing. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 7, 2009

Europe Consumer. (1). sales and marketing. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2018

How GDPR Highlights How We Should Be Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. John Jantsch: I would agree with you, there’s a lot of common sense in this that we as marketers probably should want to do anyway.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Europe Consumer. (1). sales and marketing. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

After Google buying Postini, the SaaS M&A market continues to be full of surprises. Europe Consumer. (1). sales and marketing. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. anecdotes. (13).

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Great companies have been founded during downturns and Bessemer sees a lot of investment opportunity in the current market environment," said Ed Colloton, Chief Operating Officer of Bessemer Venture Partners. Europe Consumer. (1). sales and marketing. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. anecdotes. (13).

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2021

We have put a long-term goal of attaining the highest market capitalization, primarily focusing on our finances and management in a bid to achieve the highest market value and cap position. This has challenged me to take new risks and investments that have helped put my business on the market and increase its sales.

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