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Cracking The Code: In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Cracking the Code

In search of Europes next tech stars. A short interview on Bloomberg about where I see venture opportunities in Europe. Europe Consumer. (1). sales and marketing. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Wednesday, August 03, 2011.

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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

Some countries in Europe may have lost their AAA ratings, but they have not lost their appetite to innovate and create new online services. It is interesting to note that this model has been invented in Europe (Blablacar started in 2006) and while there have been some similar and more recent initiatives in the US (e.g., at 12:17 PM.

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Cracking The Code: Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan

Cracking the Code

Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Compensating the sales force is a difficult task and the key is usually to keep things simple, so that each sales rep knows what he needs to optimize to make more money at the end of the quarter. which is very close to the typical 8% paid for sales commissions.

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Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of SaaS companies

Cracking the Code

Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of SaaS companies. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. a new entrant trying to gain awareness in the marketplace investing in various mktg programs and sales to get the lead-gen engine flywheel started)? Europe Consumer. (1). sales and marketing. (10).

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Getting Your Series A Mojo Back

Both Sides of the Table

From Aspiration to Hero For companies that do have that moment of success where everything seems to come together: funding, hiring, customers, PR, product releases and so forth — you have a “hero” moment where you feel invincible. You attended speaker dinners, went to entrepreneur parties on ships or in Europe.

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Twitter Link Roundup #59 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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Arming & Aiming: How to handle sales objections at a startup – [link]. 11 Ways Your Startup Can Deliver Support That Will Increase Sales – [link]. 11 Ways Your Startup Can Deliver Support That Will Increase Sales – [link]. Arming & Aiming: How to handle sales objections at a startup – [link].

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

The sales productivity ratio (measured with the Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC ratio) are also fairly similar for the two groups (except for a small cap dip in Q4 09) and therefore do not explain the difference Why is scale so much rewarded by public markets? Europe Consumer. (1). sales and marketing. (10). anecdotes. (13).