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Using Gross Margin to Score Your Product’s Maturity

OpenView Labs

While inevitable and with multivariate causality, it speaks to the product’s maturity and business model. When this happens, fix the product, pivot the business model, or expand the distribution channels. Creating a marketplace does just that. In the ordinary course of business, spoilage is inevitable.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics.