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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Evernote, Dropbox). Everything).

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Evernote, Dropbox). 1999 – “The search engine game is over”.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to pay, but for anything above a certain dollar amount, it had to be a committee decision, and Universities are a notoriously bad market to crack (probably second to the government). The product worked.

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Is Emotion Necessary To Make More Sales?

ConversionXL

So the question is, does emotion play a role in making more sales online? Before we look how emotion affects sales, we have to ask if emotion plays a role further up the marketing funnel – specifically for driving awareness and getting more reach. Emotional Design Influences Sales. 1998) – 120,000+ customers.

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