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.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 16, 2011
The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. Outsourcing is spreading at a frantic pace today with a global footprint and players like oDesk and eLance have made it very easy for companies to connect with outsourcing vendors. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today.
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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.
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
A big downside of the high-touch sales model is that the CAC is out of control, and the sales cycles are extremely long. As you can see in the graph below, high-touch sales is a leading indicator of CAC. A high-touch sales process can balloon customer acquisition costs. Perfect for hyper-niche solutions.
ReadWriteStart
MAY 4, 2011
Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits. He is exploring outside financing, but my concern is that unless the growth rate accelerates, this particular business may not fit the venture model.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 19, 2016
WeVue co-founder Taylor Wallace told me he doesn’t have a lot of time for training in the competitive software development industry, so he hires the “naturally curious” to fit with the company’s product-oriented business model. So what’s the best way to create your dream team? Study your game plan.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
With the advent of the web and the multifaceted programming features of WordPress , many younger entrepreneurs have the ability to go into business for themselves very easily and very cheaply, but very haphazardly. Global competition is another headwind that “B2C” product-based companies have to contend with. What Is “B2C&# ?
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