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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

In addition, founders thinking about starting a company can be overwhelmed by choice, as there are so many problems to tackle with technology, but it could be comforting to know that investors are interested in those areas in the first place.

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A Company Culture Evaluation: How To Do A Year-End Review

YoungUpstarts

Mentoring should happen every single day, not just a few times a year during performance reviews. When I was a senior systems engineer at AT&T Information Systems, I was supporting the top sales rep, Phil. When he quit, his sales manager, Betty, offered me the job. You can still be you, only better, as a sales rep.’

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

To be clear Airbnb posted a GAAP profit in Q3 2020 of over $200M which is impressive given travel remains materially depressed due to COVID. For reference, high-flying megacap tech stocks like Apple and Google have operating income margins >20% and Facebook and Microsoft have operating income margins >30%.

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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

That could be a standard sale contract, i.e. buy and sell single items or batches, or a partnership agreement, i.e. contract manufacturing, sales agency, or distribution agreement. The largest ones are Alibaba, Global Sources, DHgate, EC21, Tradekey, Asia Trade Hub, and go4WorldBusiness. B2B Marketplaces in Asia.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

In a sweeping expose on the dynamic forces shaping the “New East”, Ben Simpfendorfer’s “ The Rise of the New East: Business Strategies for Success in a World of Increasing Complexity ” provides an in-depth view of how the economic resurgence of Asia and the Middle East are changing global markets.

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Why Sales and Marketing Need Each Other

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Sales and Marketing Need Each Other written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Didner is now a public speaker, facilitator and coach, consultant, and author with a focus on global content marketing. Questions I ask Pam Didner: How do you define sales enablement? Is the sales function obsolete?

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Confronting A Radically New B2B Marketplace: The Storytelling Secret That Will Rock Your Result

YoungUpstarts

Due to the free-flow of information, buyers have become fiercely independent. A recent survey by CEB reported that 57 percent of the typical business-to-business sales cycle is complete before the buyer’s first contact with vendors. The key is an increased attention to storytelling that goes far beyond product description.

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