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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

Cracking the Code

Study the Sales Learning Curve and Only Invest behind Success (more.) Forget everything you learned about software channels. The internet is your new channel and Technology Enabled Service providers are among the few partners that actually care if you succeed (more.) Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. For example: Create demo videos that answer every likely sales question. Consider converting to a channel sales model at some stage in the lifecycle of the business.

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Beware The Consultant

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If a consultant claims they can enhance your marketing efforts, pay them based on their direct impact on your incremental sales. Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe).

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The Proof was not in the Pudding: Pudding Media is Shutting Down

VC Cafe

Pudding Media’s platform targeted mobile carriers, offering them a turn-key solution to manage the entire campaign lifecycle, across all mobile channels: SMS, MMS, USSD, Mobile Web, voice calls and video. The right partner from the advertising industry in Asia, should be able to extract more value.

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

Cracking the Code

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.