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The Crucial Questions Every Project Manager Needs To Ask – And The KPIs To Answer Them

YoungUpstarts

This isn’t due to inefficiencies in the legal team, but rather because the sales team is not providing all of the necessary information in one step — forcing legal to repeatedly go back to sales to get all of the details they need. Vadim Katcherovski is the Founder and CEO of Project Management software platform, Easy Projects.

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When being an “expert” is harmful

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Shoot, I used this excuse myself recently: “I built a company and forged dozens of customer relationships in the software development tools sector; I know exactly how to sell into that market.&#. Methods of reaching consumers change every year (compare SEO or AdWords strategies from 2003 and 2010).

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Twitter Link Roundup #205 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

It compares a 2013 smart phone (an iPhone) to what you had to carry just 10 years earlier (in 2003) to have some of the same tools (camera, video, music, etc.). Eliminate embarrassment, increase sales.” Eliminate embarrassment, increase sales.” Eliminate embarrassment, increase sales.” 1gkIrER.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference. I started my own marketing and communications agency back in 2003.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software. 15 minutes.

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

I grew up working in flea markets, and my family was entrepreneurial, not in the tech side of things or anything, but in different ways, and was always working side projects and jobs for people as a developer. Software developers don’t have telephones. I was that hired gun in some senses. It was a different day and age.

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How Falling In Love With My Product Killed My Business

Software By Rob

Software development wasn’t giving me the satisfaction I craved from working, and I had recently been part of a startup that was now a smoking crater after the Dot Com crash. By 2003, I entered my first show and in 2004 I had a full-fledged business running. Rogue Wave Software loved their product too.

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