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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. So if you paid $100 for a customer who converted via a Facebook ad or Google search ad (SEM) that is not your CAC.

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16 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Side Hustles

Hearpreneur

2- Business and Finance. TalentMoxie blends strength based career coaching, human resources, and partners with companies that want to hire talented people. Thanks to Feuza Reis, Next Level SEM ! #8- Adding bling to everything is a really fun process, but growing my side hustle is especially rewarding.

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Marc Barros on the shift from Product to Marketing/Sales

VC Adventure

A traditional way to see the world is to divide the company between the functions: sales, marketing, product, finance, operations, etc. To do this well you often hire designers, engineers, and product managers. Don’t Divide Your Organization. This is even consistent with how Seth phrased it, shifting from product to sales/marketing.

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Marc Barros on the shift from Product to Marketing/Sales

VC Adventure

A traditional way to see the world is to divide the company between the functions: sales, marketing, product, finance, operations, etc. To do this well you often hire designers, engineers, and product managers. Don’t Divide Your Organization. This is even consistent with how Seth phrased it, shifting from product to sales/marketing.

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Top Platforms for Freelancing Newbies

Transformify

Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. These platforms provide employers with an advantage in terms of hiring and managing employees, while ensuring that all payments due are transparent, accurate, and on time. The clients can easily search for your personal profile on this website and hire you. Teaching and Tutoring.

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The Direct-to-Consumer Checklist

Austin Startup

How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM? These strategies can be useful in increasing initial conversions from your ads and website traffic, but offering large discounts too early in the life of the company will lower your gross margins and CAC, both of which will affect your unit economics and future financing conversations.

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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. Together, CMRR, Cashflow, Churn, CAC, and CLTV make up the “5 C’s of SaaS Finance. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production.