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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

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. Another route is to approach a lender like Domain Capital that is familiar with the industry and will finance the domain at rates far better than traditional financing.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

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. Another route is to approach a lender like Domain Capital that is familiar with the industry and will finance the domain at rates far better than traditional financing.

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

Cracking the Code

Together, CMRR, Cashflow, Churn, CAC, and CLTV make up the “5 C’s of SaaS Finance. For sales, they should be paid on new CMRR with a standard deal structure (such as a one year deal, with quarterly pre-payments), and incentives for more favorable cash flow terms (such as multi-year pre-payments). Justin Label.