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How To Lose Fat And Gain Muscle With Venture Capital

David Teten

Source: AON Hewitt 2012 Health Care Survey , based on World Economic Forum data. ff Venture Capital does virtually no investing in life sciences, and historically has also been adverse to healthcare IT startups, given the long sales cycles, heavy regulatory burden, and our own lack of internal knowledge in these sectors.

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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.