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Every startup employee should take time to help sell and support their own product. It's not for a photo-op, it's actually to help them do their job.
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Rapid advancements in no-code and minimum viable product have created opportunity for startups where opportunity didn't previously exist. You need to tap that opportunity.
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Outbound email marketing doesn't help a startup target its market. It helps a business accelerate sales within their target market. Here's how.
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In a startup, no matter how efficient and motivated you are, the harder you chase the wrong goals, the more time you waste.
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Having built tech for startups for the better part of three decades, I've learned that solving problems with tech almost always creates new problems.
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Successful marketing partnerships don't happen like lightning in a bottle. All of the exciting stuff needs to wait until you can show traction.
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A strong company culture can promote healthy increases to both the top and bottom line. But all levels of management must be proactively involved in forming it.
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Customer success isn't about making your customer happy. It's about making them more successful with your product. It's about change. And change sucks.
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A lot of business owners don't realize that they have almost total control over who their customer is and how much money those customers are willing to spend.
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Here are four times a startup tries to raise money too early, and how waiting will increase your odds of getting the funding you actually need.
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The dividing line between a successful and unsuccessful startup exit is the value of the equity you're holding onto at the end, not at the beginning.
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Every entrepreneur longs for that day when unsolicited investor interest comes knocking and suddenly an idea becomes a funded reality.
I'm going to debunk some conventional wisdom about success and failure in business and entrepreneurship. The truth? Risk tolerance is meaningless.
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There's one particular kind of startup shutdown that can be avoided. And it's when the founders let their best intentions get ahead of their best defense.