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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. B2C vs. B2B is not a meaningful segmentation of Internet startups anymore because the Internet has changed the rules of business. Solo founders take 3.6x longer to reach scale stage compared to a founding team of 2 and they are 2.3x

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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

YoungUpstarts

You are either a sales or product oriented startup company when you first start. If you sell to businesses and/or has proportionately more sales/business development people in your company you are a Sales Oriented Company. Most if not all Enterprise companies are sales oriented. Consumer Facing B2C.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. Hmm, now I’m getting intrigued. Solo founders take 3.6x

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. There are a few things that make optimizing for B2B a different beast: The sales cycle is usually longer.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. is an AI bot which helps companies refine their sales pitch to VCs.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

They're going strong , and constantly adapting their platform to users' changing needs for information and social media aggregation. PriceMinister, a site for C2C/B2C sales of new and used goods (at a fixed price) is the top e-commerce platform in France (recently surpassing eBay.fr and Amazon.fr). It has infiltrated the U.K.,

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Bridging The Gap Between Content And Marketing Automation

YoungUpstarts

We also know that content performs for your business when you pair it with marketing automation software; you can use content to build up email subscriptions, understand your audience’s interests, and nurture the leads in your sales funnel. The Uberflip platform starts with aggregating all the content you create and curate.

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