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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It’s often said that you shouldn’t talk about price during customer development interviews. Your product is designed with natural tripwires to trigger other pricing ( Freemium model ), or not (business model left as an exercise to your future self). Price is not an afterthought, it is essential business design.

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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. When would you ever try to produce less sales in B2C eCommerce? Conversion optimization is a little different if you’re in B2B.

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How to get your mobile app discovered in 2021

VC Cafe

As a VC that invests in B2C, I often try to put myself in shoes of a founder looking to grow the audience for their new app to consumers. The reality for startups is that it’s not enough to build, design and ship a great looking app – marketing and distribution are critical to success. Slack or Discord).

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JFDI.Asia Accelerator: Bootcamp Practicalities

YoungUpstarts

You’re supposed to demo the business, not just the product. The investors who come to Demo Day might nod politely when you talk about the features of your product. Demo Day is an invitation-only event. Each startup in which JFDI has invested, and which makes it through the program, will be invited to pitch at Demo Day.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important. So we had those two assets: Website Grader and the resulting email list.

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Cracking the Product Demo Code: Lessons From 78 SaaS Demos

ConversionXL

Yet, when it comes to product demos, many marketers and sales teams fall short in creating demos that convert. How do some of the most successful SaaS companies approach their demos? In this article, we’ll look at some of the most important components of running a successful demo and what to consider when creating yours.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

This post describes how companies using the Customer Development model can increase their credibility, valuation and probability of getting a first round of funding by presenting their results in a “Lesson Learned&# venture pitch. Is there a profitable business model? Can it scale?”