Scaling a SaaS Business to 11,000 Customers: Booker.com CEO Josh McCarter (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What are some of the inflection points in the business when things started clicking in gear? We’ve talked about one of the key issues which is really turning into this metrics-driven organization. What other inflection points have you experienced in building this business? Josh McCarter: I think there are a few. The early

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October 13 – 325th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 325th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 13, 2016, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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Scaling a SaaS Business to 11,000 Customers: Booker.com CEO Josh McCarter (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is your conclusion about where you wanted to pin your customer acquisition cost? How does that correlate to your lifetime value for your SaaS business? Josh McCarter: All of the benchmark studies say that you need to be north of three times LTV. That seems to be the number where people feel

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Roundtable Recap: October 6 – Three Continents, Three Marketplaces

During this week’s roundtable, we worked with three entrepreneurs from three continents. Survifly First up pitching, Dotun Oni from Lagos, Nigeria, pitched Survifly, a crowdsourced market survey platform for collecting data for the African market. It sounds interesting, and I offered Dotun some next steps to move the project forward. SwasthRaho Then, Vaivhav Kumar from

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Mike Ward, Chief Revenue Officer at World First (Part 4)

Mike Ward: The ability to land one client at a time is not necessarily as scalable. You have so many people trying to do it. It doesn’t create a unique acquisition channel out there. That one to many is a unique opportunity. There are people out there with API’s who are landing one to many and partnering with

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324th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 324th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, October 6, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

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