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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Business Model I would like to propose that in addition to team, product, and market, there is actually a fourth, equally important, core element of startups, which is the need for a viable business model. Gross Margin should take into consideration any support, installation, and servicing costs.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Underwriters realized that as long as the public was happy snapping up shares, they could make huge profits from the inflated valuations. Carpe Diem.

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Cracking The Code: Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts.

Cracking the Code

The fact that SaaS valuations are being more affected by the downturn than the Nasdaq can be surprising given the supposed resiliency of the SaaS model (recurring revenues) but it translates the public investors belief that SMB software spend is going to be hit very hard by this recession. SaaS 13 Index Valuation. anecdotes. (13).

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Cracking The Code: Cracking the SMB code

Cracking the Code

Today, VARs are the key to the SMB segment and their business model is collapsing, opening new opportunities for them and for technology providers. To survive, VARs need to change their business model and move from product sales to services. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). My Investments.

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Cracking The Code: Why I disagree with Tony Zingale on the future.

Cracking the Code

Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition).

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Twitter Link Roundup #268 – Pristine Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

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Valuation As A Scorecard – buff.ly/1F0CUyC. Online Courses Accelerate Any Business Model bit.ly/1InOB3Z. Using PPC Marketing to Make Content Go Viral: Here’s How It Works crowdspring.co/1InOIwn. The Illusion of Product/Market Fit for SaaS Companies – buff.ly/1dPLqGE. 1InLxVh.