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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. A successful startup strives for this latter case.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). Investment banks simply do not match supply and demand. You guessed it — straight up free money.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

Both Sides of the Table

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. 3) Raise capital. Fincura specializes in serving lenders.

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

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway.

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The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summit

Cracking the Code

This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B As soon as you’ve climbed the Sales Learning Curve, begin ramping your sales force by hiring renewal-oriented account managers. Stay local. One Datacenter.

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Knowledge

Occam's Razor

Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics! Solving For The What & The Why: On-demand Webinar. Viral, Social, Sentiment, Mobile: 4 Delightful Web Analytics Solutions. Hiring a Senior Web Analyst? Web Analytics Segmentation: Do Or Die, There Is No Try! Videos: Actionable Web Analytics Tips. 1: Visitors.

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