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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

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Investors can also be skittish, and winning new customers is not easy. However, a crisis can also be a golden opportunity to launch a new product or service, as long as the startup at the origin applies specific methods. As a startup, you probably don’t have much money to spend on marketing or product development.

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Freemium vs. Free Trial: Which Gets You More Paying Customers (Not Just Freeloaders)?

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You may agonize over the decision to choose one path over the other, but you can save that strategic energy for figuring out how to transition more free users into paying customers. But if you’ve already started down the product-led path—and can get it right—there are plenty of benefits. We value things more highly if we own them.

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How To Create Customer Personas With Actual, Real Life Data

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When was the last time you took a long hard look at what makes your customer base tick? Think customer personas – those detailed representations of the different segments of your target audience. The UK based customer experience management firm, Thunderhead.com, conducted a similar study of U.S.

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

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” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker.

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The SMB Guide To CRM In 2019

YoungUpstarts

In the course of all this productive planning, and as you look to build stronger relationships that drive ROI in 2019, consider how you’re responding to customer information. Small- to mid-sized businesses that cater to the right customers — and to enhancing the customer experience — can expect to see big gains.

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Building A Diverse Workforce

YoungUpstarts

Whether it’s through nationality, religious beliefs, disability, or sexual preference, having a diverse workforce pays dividends for both company morale and employee retention. There’s no better way to reflect the world we live through your company in than by ensuring that you employ a diverse range of staff.

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Startup Resources

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Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Tools for Hackathons – added Dec 2012. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development.