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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. A new pricing or packaging model does not by itself represent a meaningful core differentiation, and the rising abundance of “subscription” or “flash sales” companies heightened our concern with regard to barriers to entry.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

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. A few stats to consider on the market opportunity in North America alone: 28 million SMBs in North America, with roughly 60 million employees.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. The opportunity to transact at the point of purchase increases the sheer number of revenue opportunities.

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When Humor Converts (and When It Doesn’t)

ConversionXL

At his optimal weight, Clever does pretty well for himself, most notably between plays at the Super Bowl – creating millions of fans and generating a ton of revenue for advertisers. The bottom line is humor can create sales, but it has to be done right.” (via A sizeable increase in Twitter and Facebook engagement, but no sales lift.

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Uncovering The Hidden Power Of Your Unfair Advantage

Duct Tape Marketing

And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have, um, customers, you don't yet have traction in sales, how are you gonna judge it? The only country that the book hasn't come out yet until now is in the US and Canada in North America.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

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. at 11:09 AM. Great list!

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6 User Onboarding Flow Examples (With Critiques)

ConversionXL

According to a 2014 State of SaaS report from Compass , SaaS is a $10B industry in North America. For the leading 500 merchants, 42% of all mobile sales generated come from mobile apps. In fact, mobile app revenue for 2016 is estimated at $58 billion. So, all-in-all, mobile apps can be quite profitable, right?

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