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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

This is very different from the way most of us think about investing; in our personal lives and in most operating businesses, investors try to spend as little as possible for the maximum results. I don’t think that a Net Present Value calculation is appropriate for every company.

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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. Philippe Botteri. 4:00 PM.