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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

Even in this age of globalization and virtualization, the geographic area where you choose to live and work can still make or break your startup business. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. get the attention of the market they choose.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed.

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Jack Truong Says Beat Your Competition by Satisfying Consumers’ Unmet Needs

The Startup Magazine

Focusing on Your Sales Funnel With a Ph.D. At the time, the company’s management had accepted declining sales figures as, if not inevitable, at least highly likely. But where they saw stagnant expansion prospects, Jack Truong saw promise. “Back in 2011, when I joined, [Electrolux] was about a $4.2

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

Wednesday, February 23, 2011. It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. sales and marketing. (10). ▼ 2011. (2). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

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Cracking The Code: Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan

Cracking the Code

Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Compensating the sales force is a difficult task and the key is usually to keep things simple, so that each sales rep knows what he needs to optimize to make more money at the end of the quarter. which is very close to the typical 8% paid for sales commissions.

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Cracking The Code: In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Cracking the Code

Wednesday, August 03, 2011. sales and marketing. (10). ▼ 2011. (2). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Global Warning!

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

June 5, 2011. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). Revenue Growth: 2241% YoY (2010 vs 2009), 1357% YOY (Q1 2011 vs Q1 2010). Run Rate Gross Profit: $1.1B (Q1 2011 annualized). Featured merchants (may not have tipped): 56.8K (Q1 2011), 66.3K (2010), 2.7K (2009).