Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

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? Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. But all things are never equal.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This is a little harder to do for channel sales, but still extremely valuable. And a little harder than that for direct sales situations with large deal sizes. The Secret to Success The secret to successful design of metrics is to start with the end goal and work backwards. Bookings is the pre-cursor to Revenue.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

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.

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