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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.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

It gives us instant credibility, high visibility in the search engines, and significant traffic, even apart from the value of the services we have built on top of it.”. The traditional ways they’ve monetized domains – type-in traffic in particular, but also lead generation —are not working as well as they used to.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

It gives us instant credibility, high visibility in the search engines, and significant traffic, even apart from the value of the services we have built on top of it.”. The traditional ways they’ve monetized domains – type-in traffic in particular, but also lead generation —are not working as well as they used to.

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