Internet IPO Sales Viral 
Cracking the Code
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. On the IPO front, LogMeIn made the news, being one of the few tech IPO on the NASDAAQ in 2009. Congrats to Jim Kelliher, CFO and Michael Simon, CEO, for a successful IPO! internet. (6). anecdotes. (13).
Cracking the Code
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. internet. (6). sales and marketing. (10). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
They raised around $350 million to try and sell cars direct over the Internet. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
For a startup, having great sales DNA is a wonderful asset. This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems. But here’s where a truly great sales artist comes in. They are closing orders.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 billion, with 275 million in North America alone (source: Internet World Stats) and an astounding global penetration of 33% of the world’s population.
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