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Data, launches, noods, and more

ProfitWell

It launched November 2008 with only $30,000 in the bank. million in funding from venture capital firms and now has a market cap of $17.1 The TLDR: Subscription boxes are doing well because they provide an experience customers crave. Later the company went on to attract $263.8 So yes, you can launch a business right now.

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4 Neglected Truths About Live Chat For Start-ups

Outseta

Live chat tools come with the promise of completely changing your approach to marketing, of revolutionizing the way you deliver customer support, and there’s even companies like Swayed that are building live chat tools with the goal of replacing sales reps altogether. LiveChat Software has 21,000 customers and was founded back in 2002.

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Startup Best Practices 13 - Patience with Unit Economics

Tom Tunguz

Sometimes, financial discipline in startups is imposed by financial markets, like in 2008 when the total amount of venture capital investment plummeted after Lehman imploded. Product before people - focus on improving the product before hiring additional customer support or salespeople.

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How Clio grew from a lifestyle business to a legal tech juggernaut

Point Nine Land

In 2008 when [practice management] products came out, many in the legal profession had never even heard of the cloud and, among those who had, the general consensus was that using the cloud was certainly dangerous, perhaps irresponsible, and maybe even heretical,” explained legal journalist Robert Ambrogi in a recent article.

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State of the Cloud 2019 from Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And this goes back to ten years ago, which was 2008 and we released the ten laws of cloud computing at a CEO conference that we had that was meaningfully smaller than this. Last year was a record in terms of total combined capital by a large multiple. In fact, 2015 was the prior record, 2018 was over twice that.

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