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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Marketing isn’t scheduling a launch and recruiting isn’t timing the start-dates of the next 50 hires in customer service and sales. We didn’t line up that press and have those sales materials and ensure code-quality high enough to scale on day one, without predictability. This means you can — and should!

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

In consumer packaged goods, the benchmark for a “highly successful” product launch is no easy feat: $50 million in first-year sales. Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Image source ).

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Scaling Sales: From Craft to Machine

Seeing Both Sides

I''ve been thinking a lot lately about scaling sales. . Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 1) Enterprise Sales.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

These companies get the prevention-promotion balance right by evaluating every aspect of their business model—making near-term changes that reduce costs now and after demand returns (unlike layoffs). This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels. Image source ).

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Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA

Steve Blank

From sources that the studios at one time claimed would put them out of business: Pay-per view TV, cable and satellite channels, video rentals, DVD sales, online subscriptions and digital downloads. 1940’s – movie studios had to divest their distribution channel – they owned over 50% of the movie theaters in the U.S.

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SailPoint Closes 2010 with 40 New Global 2000 Customers and Two Strategic Transactions

Austin Startup

Driven by strong customer demand for its award-winning identity governance solution, SailPoint achieved record growth in 2010, with revenue up 200% over 2009. Our 2011 plan includes extensive additions to our engineering, support and sales teams as we respond to increasing customer demand around the world.”.

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Important Lessons Your Startup Or Small Business Can Learn From The World’s Best Brands

crowdSPRING Blog

Sometimes called “Gen Y”, millennials are the much sought after generation born between 1980 and 2000. Startups are better at detecting and unlocking emerging and latent demand. They have huge advantages in procurement, distribution, and manufacturing, as well as sales and marketing advantages. Millennials.