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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare.

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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

Cracking the Code

Your caution in Law 6 about over-estimating the impact of SEM and other lead-generation activity is particularly astute. In regards to calculatimg the "Magic Number" - should the amount included as sales and marketing costs match the length of the sales cycle? sales and marketing. (10). at 7:42 PM.

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

Cracking the Code

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.