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How To Get New Customers By Targeting New Markets

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs assume that everyone will love their solution as much as they do, so they tune their marketing focus based on their own needs and wants. Expanding your market into these areas requires thinking outside your personal box. Identify your built-in biases and define compensating development and marketing strategies.

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8 Key Principles To Keep Up With The Speed of Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Now it’s all about how fast you recognize and adapt to market change, new competitors, and new technology. Smart entrepreneurs overtly plan every month to re-sync their vision and objectives with newly-learned market realities. It’s better to listen carefully, test them market, and take baby steps in the beginning.

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[INTERVIEW] North Aware Founder And Creator Of The Smart Parka, Jamil Khan

YoungUpstarts

Kahn had a better idea – several, in fact – that led to the Smart Parka, the first product of North Aware that launched in 2016 with the help of a highly successful Kickstarter campaign. Things like negotiating distribution channels and partners and how to handle market expansions.

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

The growth of B2B video marketing. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have thus far dominated the market in video ad spend on social media. LinkedIn video ads: tech specs, targeting, metrics, and cost. LinkedIn video ad metrics. Both are limitations on how much video metrics can tell you. Image source ).

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In 2017, GE Will Buy More Tech Startups Than Google

Hunter Walker

Largely yes, but the pot of gold might be more modest than some of 2016’s notable transactions suggest (Jet, Cruise, Dollar Shave Club). We had our first taste of this trend playing out early in 2016 when GM acquired self-driving tech startup Cruise for north of $1b. Next Level: Buying Customers/Revenue/Distribution.

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The Growth Marketing Process: How to Shake Your Growth Hack Addiction

ConversionXL

The truth is, they simply had a solid growth marketing process. Yet, marketing teams continue to make decisions based on what has worked in the past, what has worked for other people and what appears to be working for competitors. High-growth companies simply have something most companies don’t, right? before continuing.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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