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Traction is the new IP

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Category leaders do very well, while the #2, 3, 4… players struggle to attract customers and financing. In the past, the adoption of an enterprise tool was primarily driven by the quality and aggressiveness of a sales force to win over more customers. Let’s take my own portfolio as an example.

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Cracking The Code: Popular Media: the key to viral marketing

Cracking the Code

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Labels: internet , sales and marketing. Portfolio. (3). sales and marketing. (10).

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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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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

Portfolio. (3). sales and marketing. (10). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Yahoo Finance. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1).

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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? Portfolio. (3). sales and marketing. (10). Yahoo Finance.

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

Cracking the Code

Portfolio. (3). sales and marketing. (10). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Yahoo Finance. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1).

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Cracking The Code: A Quick & Funny Summary of AdTech

Cracking the Code

Portfolio. (3). sales and marketing. (10). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Yahoo Finance. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1).