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

Cracking the Code

Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received. Michael Kassing.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. But proving your assumptions with early adopters is an essential first step.

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ProfessorVC: Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid.

Professor VC

Are you refering to the various early stage platforms that are popping up? My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. ► 2008. (14). Like earlyshares.com or cfofferings.com? Daniel dailycrowdsource.com. April 12, 2012 4:48 PM. Steve Bennet.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&#

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

Professor VC

A check-in aggregation platform. ► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. VoiceBase - Transcription and search of voice communications (presentations, conference calls, etc.)

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

Thursday, January 17, 2008. The theme of the event was angel investment trends for 2008. While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Touched by an Angel. ► May. (1).

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BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

VC Cafe

PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. Long story short, I ended up spending a year and a half in China from 2008 to 2010 and now I’m hard at work with BizMe2. Yair Margolin: I learned the peer to peer business well, and through my roles I got to attend many conferences.