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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

They should also consider launching online B2C or B2B platforms incorporating mobile and social-commerce. Faced with the rising costs of labour, materials and land in Chinese cities, companies are increasingly sourcing from other Asian countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh. A “China + 1″ Strategy.

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EMaaS: How Email Marketing Can Be Your Agency’s Most Profitable Service

Duct Tape Marketing

Minimal Hard Costs. We all love low-cost, high-value service offerings. Costs don’t get any lower than free, which, conveniently, is exactly the monthly price of a number of email service providers. The minimal hard costs of email are a big contributing factor to its high margin as a service offering. Minimal Time Costs.

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The unprofitable SaaS business model trap

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Marketo filed for IPO with impressive 80% year-over-year growth in 2012, with almost $60m in revenue. I know the argument: The pay-back period on sales, marketing, and up-start costs is long, but there’s a profitable result at the end of the tunnel. So these costs are amortized over the customers you do land. Just wait!

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Repaid 12-36 months with ability to prepay at reduced cost. Pied Piper Inc needs funding to accelerate customer acquisition for its SaaS solution. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. ARR of $500K+.

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012. It seems learning to code has become a theme in 2012, and the demand is being met by Code Year and others. My experience: I exited my last company, an award-winning B2B telecoms operator, and knew that I wanted to build a SaaS product. Disrupt NY 2012. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt NYC.

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

March 8, 2012. The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? And Why 20%?

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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

ConversionXL

It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. SiriusDecisions Rearchitected Demand Waterfall (2012). I also liked the DemandGen Framework because it considered customer expansion revenue in addition to the acquisition side , which is covered by the SiriusDecisions models. Image source ). Image source ).

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