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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. Although the company created an incentive plan to boost sales, its sales growth fell from 19% before the recession to 8% after—five percentage points below Staples’ postrecession sales growth rate. What the big studies have shown.

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Attention: Female Founders on the Rise

The Startup Magazine

Outcomes from a national study conducted by the Center for an Urban Future that reported a dramatic 52 percent growth in woman-owned business formation from 2002 to 2012.( The National Women Business Council states that 99 perfect of woman-owned businesses do not have sales outside the U.S.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

In a consumer Web venture, the hustler/sales guy is non-core (a few biz dev deals are important but not core). The architecture has to deal with the constant pivots and directional changes to adapt to the market needs. Next page: The transition from a founder who does all the sales to a scalable sales team is really, really hard.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

It was very educational for a lot of us to go through the dot-com crash, because you remember, in 2002, like there were a number of universal truths asserted in 2002; the Internet didn’t matter, consumer Internet business was dead. And they don’t buy sales-force automation software, they rent on Salesforce.com.

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53 Top Conversion Optimization Tools Reviewed by Experts

ConversionXL

The services offered post-sale are not necessarily well-regarded and in the worst case may be considered “nickel and dime” – though that may be changing. But don’t worry it’s a strong sales culture with great salesmanship that may certainly help you out at renewal time.”

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

The vast majority of patterns and architecture patterns that we see in PHP, Ruby and other scripting languages are incomplete implementations of stuff the Java and C# guys created. On programmers, language criticisms; If I were working with.NET and had a solid.NET architecture, I would hire.NET developers. Same with J2EE.

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