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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. The hosted offering worked by having users place an “HTML-snippet” on their own website, which would retrieve the Java Applet from our servers and connect back to our servers. In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc.,

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Sales cycle can often go into something like co-development. 2-18 month sales cycle. Java/Azure appliances will come in. LYONS: You have to encourage companies to pay attention to these entrepreneurs. At my prior company, we structured programs to encourage doing business with smaller companies.

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Frictionless Sales (continued)

BeyondVC

As you know, I am enamored by frictionless sales. Frictionless sales means reducing the pain for customers to adopt and use a service/product and consequently reducing the cost of sales and marketing to get a customer and generate revenue. It means more qualified leads and a shorter sales cycle.

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