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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2002 – “Consumer electronics is a low margin and highly competitive industry”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Everything).

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2002 – “Consumer electronics is a low margin and highly competitive industry”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. (Evernote, Dropbox).

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

In a consumer Web venture, the hustler/sales guy is non-core (a few biz dev deals are important but not core). Next page: The transition from a founder who does all the sales to a scalable sales team is really, really hard. SaaS reduces your sales cost but also means that VC is needed. Founding teams must be balanced.

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