Thank you for asking your question here on Clarity. The healthy discussion will also benefit many members of the community. The first company that I built and successfully sold, a BBS turned ISP (aka "Internet Service Provider", more here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/exitcoach), was indeed a "rad...
At Gun.io we're about to replace our legacy home-grown system for these items with Hubspot. So far we are happy with it. It doesn't do _everything_ but it does enough and it's easy enough to use for non-technical staff. We got it up and running with about a month of dedicated work, mostly on deve...
It depends on the expert. My team and I have done everything from create a roadmap to fully run the crowdsource campaign. The variations come in budget, product being launched, the client, and the appropriate audience. I'd be happy to schedule a call with you to discuss more in detail. -Shaun
Chartmogul is the best one I've found. There are many great ones though. You can even use open source analytics software to build your own.
Since you mentioned you're raising a seed round, I strongly suggest not using an investment banker. At the seed stage, VCs are investing in you more than your business—putting a banker in the middle will do you a lot of disservice. IBs are typically used for Series B and beyond. I also noticed...
Probably the training from Google for the Google Partners Exam heres a link to more information: https://support.google.com/partners/answer/3153810?hl=en
This is difficult to answer because you haven't given us much to go on. What type of hardware are they building, and how big and fast do they plan to grow? It really doesn't sound like they have a growth strategy in place yet, so my guess is you would need to create that for them, right? If that...
Hi Heavily depends on you payback time for customer (how long in months it takes you to get money back invested in acquiring them). If it is more than 12 months than you have to work on reducing the cost of acquisition. Without lowering the cost (and lowering the payback time) the growth wthout ...
I'll divide your question into 2 questions, because I am not sure which one you're really asking :-) 1. Should I hire him despite the costs involved? You seem to already agree to this, based on what you wrote ("I am willing to set aside...assuming I see some ROI..."). 2. How to I justify his hig...