Bootstrapping Partner Revenue Sales Cycle 
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Consider the consequences of these monthly pricing possibilities: $0/mo means your goal is to maximize growth (trust and usage) instead of revenue. Even bootstrapped businesses can make this work (e.g. Rather, it fundamentally determines the nature of the product and the structure of the business that produces it. Think: GoDaddy).
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 1, 2011
At today's roundtable, we announced 1M/1M Premium company Freshdesk's $1M funding from Accel Partners. Such long sales cycle businesses find it very difficult to sustain and survive the pre-revenue period. Freshdesk is a social customer support startup offering a SaaS solution to small businesses. Loyaltepays.com.
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Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Sales cycles matter though. This is obvious.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Sales cycles matter though. This is obvious.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 4, 2015
However, now that we know that your visitors are looking for these experiences and transforming into brand advocates because of these experiences, we can expect to see results in the sales cycle and in revenue flow. Yana Nirshberg is the Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Creative Director at ParadigmNEXT, Inc.
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). You have to do this; addressing real customer needs releases revenue dollars that you need to survive. So if you are techie, find a founding partner that is a hustler.
Hippoland
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
At a high level, business is simple! :) You bring revenue in and your costs send money out the door. You want your revenue to be higher than your costs. I can’t speak for my business partner Eric, but he has had a lot more experience with building businesses and side projects with smaller lifetime values.
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