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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. I don’t want to speak to customer service reps!! There are 2.9 Not so fast.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates.

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Do Less. More.

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Success often comes from doing a few things extraordinarily well and noticeably better than the competition and is measured in customer feedback, product engagement, growth in usage and ultimately in revenue growth. They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue? You need to be successful and those are two different things.

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Chrome River: Building An Enterprise Software Leader In LA, with Dave Terry

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However, our customers, even with Concur, find those solutions didn't meet all of their needs. We formed the company in 2007, came out with our first product in late 2008, and began selling in earnest in 2009. Customers would start evaluating them, and it would very quickly narrow to just two companies, us and Concur.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. You are particularly vulnerable if: You have revenue concentration (few customers each providing a large total of percentage of your revenue).

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REACH NeXT Alumni Gets Into 500 Startups! | Batch 15 Announced

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We manage user login so businesses can focus on core product and engage customers faster. Fun fact: iWaboo Group was founded in 2012 as a pure retail company that owned gadget concept stores in Italy. SaaS for Cloud application lifecycle management. Toys, treats, and training guides customized for your puppy. From: India.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

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Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x 2012-2015 were boom times in tech startups as prices were always moving up leading to FOMO leading to higher than normal multiples driven by a massive entry of new investors in the market.

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