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Containing Growth Chaos: Five Things To Do When Your Company Is On The Upswing

YoungUpstarts

We witness so many of the subtle gains of our labor – ideas made real, people turned passionate partners and the prospects of inching ever-closer to a long-term future rather than the great likelihood of total business failure. But by year 10, just one-third remain in operation. Re-set the vendor and partner paradigm.

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users. In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Wanted: High Frequency Performance Operations Specialist at Two Sigma Investments (New York, New York United States). Our official titles will be: (8) Technical Intern (9-12) Member of Technical Staff (13-15) Fog Creek Fellow "Member of Technical Staff", a.k.a. Level 12-13 Operational. Its neat and egalitarian.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Subscription Box Service

Up and Running

Operations. If you partner with a large, wealthy private school district who wants you to provide comic book packages to all their eighth-grade students every month, that contract might be key your business survival for a period of time. What vendors can you partner with to give you discounted or free sample products for your box?

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

The top performing SaaS companies typically achieve annual customer renewal rates above 90% - with most of the churn due to death (bankruptcies) or marriage (acquisitions) - and over 100% renewals on a dollar value basis due to up-sells into this installed base. Cashflow is the other key metric.