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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# April 14, 2009 3:09 PM Eric Santos said.

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

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It's amazing how good, carefully evaluated metrics can make all the difference in the successful growth of a business. VC Venture capital Viral growth Plugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes Copyright © David Skok 2009, 2010. SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? just.a.guy David -- this is a great article.

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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

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I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. The most common mistake startups make is assuming they can operate the same way big companies do, and expect success with little to no feedback from potential customers. Most startups fail. 6 Comments. April Dunford.

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

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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.