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

Cracking the Code

Get instrument rated, and trust the 6Cs of Cloud Finance (more.) Study the Sales Learning Curve and Only Invest behind Success (more.) Cloud accounting is all about matching revenue and costs to consumption…well, except for professional services! Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Yahoo Finance.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Cracking The Code: Impact of the recession on SaaS.

Cracking the Code

This strong recovery has highlighted the resiliency of the recurring revenue model in a downturn as well as the stength of the shift to soaftware-as-a-service and cloud computing. What I'd really like to see is what has happened to average sales prices for these vendors. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Raj Kapoor.

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast. Lets take an example, and look at how they might do this: They will be able to tell you that revenue is composed of deals. To compute revenue, you multiply average deal size by number of deals. Bookings is the pre-cursor to Revenue. Obvious, isn’t it?

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

Cracking the Code

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. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list!

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Free CRM – This is a Web-based customer relationship management software that allows for sales force automation.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. You have to do this; addressing real customer needs releases revenue dollars that you need to survive.

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