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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo Even bootstrapped businesses can make this work (e.g. 10/mo means people see you as a cheap version of something else, but still expect a phone number. Think: GoDaddy).

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Premium Company Freshdesk Wins Funding From Accel Partners

ReadWriteStart

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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3 Advantages to an Experiential Web Presence

Duct Tape Marketing

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.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

This could mean partnering exclusively with someone who makes products offline (and who is not tech savvy to compete online with you). Sales cycles matter though. HOWEVER, the length of a sales cycle is a strong consideration for most repeat successful founders. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

This could mean partnering exclusively with someone who makes products offline (and who is not tech savvy to compete online with you). Sales cycles matter though. HOWEVER, the length of a sales cycle is a strong consideration for most repeat successful founders. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). So if you are techie, find a founding partner that is a hustler. If you are hustler, find a superb techie as founding partner. That is just lipstick on a pig.

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How I invest as a pre-seed investor?

Hippoland

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. So you might think about how to best poise yourself to bootstrap and get to profitability for the next couple of years. I.e. how has this investor made money before?