ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. 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.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

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. 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.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

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. 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.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hearpreneur

MAY 8, 2022

connections and benefit from quicker sales cycles and more opportunities. The problem with trying to serve everyone is that in the end, you don’t end up serving anyone, which is especially relevant for service-based businesses like ours. It's all about engaging with people in a way that is helpful and non-promotional.

Entrepreneur 132

Entrepreneur Audience Social Media Channel 132

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 approach is fundamentally non-scalable. They are closing orders. Fantastic post.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Startups rarely survive by guessing, and can only create products and business models based on facts about their target market. In this case study on Moz.com by Conversion Rate Experts , the first phase of their conversion strategy was to interview paying, non-paying, and former customers about how they felt about the product.

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Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 60