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The Changing Venture Landscape

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We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts. Before Twitter he held similar roles at SuccessFactors (SaaS), Akamai (telecoms infrastructure), McAfee (Security Software) and was an investment banker. It’s just now that we’re Seed Investors.

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

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The first of question is about qualifying your potential customers aka leads. I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. One thing I observed was that many customers wanted an “on premise” version of our software and were willing to pay extra money for it.

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