Bootstrapping Business Model Engineer Sales Cycle 
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Your product is designed with natural tripwires to trigger other pricing ( Freemium model ), or not (business model left as an exercise to your future self). Requires venture funding because you have no income, and if you’re successful you’ll need lots of people and tech to run the business. Think: GoDaddy).
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 16, 2011
They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers.
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ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
With enterprise customers, this would result in tremendous exit barriers, making sales cycles long and involved, which a small startup will find hard to withstand. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. PowerStores.in.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. Sales cycles matter though. Business customers, depending on the problem, are less price sensitive than consumers. Sales cycle, as a consideration, also works the opposite way.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. Sales cycles matter though. Business customers, depending on the problem, are less price sensitive than consumers. Sales cycle, as a consideration, also works the opposite way.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook. Fantastic post.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 7, 2011
It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. Mark: Google had trouble dealing with customers and contracts because they historically were so engineering driven. Engineers don’t blame salespeople for making them work weekends to help them hit their quota.
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