ReadWriteStart
JUNE 16, 2011
Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers. 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. Higher end players like ServiceCloud charges $65, $135 & $260 per agent per month.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. 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. JCLABoutique.com. Jeanne's positioning needs a lot of work.
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ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 1, 2011
The team is led by Girish Mathrubootham and Shanmugam Krishnasamy, who have their roots in Zoho, a SaaS company that has revolutionized the category by drastically undercutting the CRM price-point by leveraging India to build a $100M+ 100% bootstrapped business. I then discussed some of the lessons of the Freshdesk financing.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. Transitioning from founder sold bootstrapped revenue to a functioning sales team is certainly possible. April 15, 2009 2:46 PM Alex Pyatetsky said. Fantastic post.
ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). Sellers get a lower cost of sale/shorter sales cycle and better revenue visibility. SaaS transfers risk from the buyer to the seller. So VCs will need to invest.
mashable.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Free CRM – This is a Web-based customer relationship management software that allows for sales force automation. Track leads and manage your sales pipeline.
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. There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier. Fundraising: Fog Creek was bootstrapped. Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software.
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