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The Superbowl ad test

Startup Lessons Learned

But notice what’s not listed: messages sent per person, churn rates of active users, or activation rate of new user. Is the company growing because of an amazing viral loop paired with a strong engagement loop? Is the company growing because of an amazing viral loop paired with a strong engagement loop?

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

Cracking the Code

Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. The most innovative B2C companies are lead generation machines, leveraging search engine optimization (SEO), viral marketing, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), email marketing, and other technically-advanced methods.