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Build a Competitor Profile for Clues to Delivering Better Value

Up and Running

Like most B2C product categories these days, your product may compete in a very crowded environment. In the dog-eat-dog world of contract manufacturing, paying close attention to competitors can pay dividends. How large is their sales team. • Do they have a dedicated sales force.

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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

Sustainable growth: Prioritise sales efficiency over growth at all costs. It doesn’t matter if your company is B2B or B2C, as Y Combinator puts it, you need to build stuff people want, and obsess about making it as user friendly, friction free and smooth as possible. In times of uncertainty, be like Scrooge McDuck!

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Transcript of Want to Be Like Amazon?

Duct Tape Marketing

Bryan: That’s it and it sets expectations for B2C and B2B right and [00:23:11] at this point as well. [00:23:13] I mean why would we wait three days for something or why would we get in our car and drive for 30 minutes when we know we can have it tomorrow and I think they’ve created sort of the norm.

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