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McKinsey highlight #1 - Cracking The Code - Yes

Cracking the Code

Paris, November 1998. TOP or Total Operational Performance, is a cost cutting approach, where your objective is to cut 40% of all the "not-strictly-necessary costs" by doing things differently. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Saturday, December 09, 2006.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. 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 Funding Problem.

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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

Salesforce.com just has average to below-average profitability" Everyone would agree that the value of an operating asset is defined by the sum of its discounted future cash flows. He should have invested in Lawson obviously… I could not track back their stock price in 1998 when NetSuite was launched, but since Jan.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

As I said, I have a very small operation and I’m able to make much more than the average person. I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. The money has been really good. I can’t complain. Increase traffic.