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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

So we had those two assets: Website Grader and the resulting email list. Around the same time we were doing those webinars, we launched our first ebook, and that did much better in terms of conversions — click-through-rate on emails, conversions on landing pages, and so on. Some startups have really long sales cycles.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Business Model I would like to propose that in addition to team, product, and market, there is actually a fourth, equally important, core element of startups, which is the need for a viable business model. SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world?

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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.