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

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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6 User Onboarding Flow Examples (With Critiques)

ConversionXL

According to a 2014 State of SaaS report from Compass , SaaS is a $10B industry in North America. For the leading 500 merchants, 42% of all mobile sales generated come from mobile apps. Churn rate is proportional to the distance between sign-up and value. So, all-in-all, mobile apps can be quite profitable, right?

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