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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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20 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industry With The Most Optimist Future

Hearpreneur

Governments around the world are adopting Digital Infrastructure for growth. In a post-pandemic world, the healthtech industry is going to be central to governments, business, and society. Expect more businesses to be moving towards e-commerce, as well as sales and marketing experts focusing their skillset completely online, as well.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industry With The Most Optimist Future

Hearpreneur

Digital transactions are now moving beyond B2C transactions & venturing into B2B, P2P, cross-border remittances, & more. With government support and continued technological innovation, the renewable energy industry is poised for rapid growth in the coming years. Cannabis sales increased by about 40%.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

Spanning halfway round the globe – from Turkey to the United Arab Emirates to India, South East Asia and China – the book brings one on a fascinating tour of the complex business characteristics governing our neck of the woods. Let me highlight some of the book’s fascinating themes: Growth of Middle-Class Consumers.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US. The boards of these organizations include large companies, local and regional government representatives, universities/public research labs and SMEs. The Big Players.

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Increase Repeat Purchases with Cohort Analysis

ConversionXL

Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. This post gives you a data-backed approach to win more repeat sales. The most telling cohort, perhaps, is which promotion locked in the sale. Now it’s time to apply your knowledge—and win more repeat sales. By month of first order.

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Looking for your summer internship? Look no further.

Austin Startup

Internship Title: Business Development Intern Compensation: Paid — $10/hr Description: The Business Development Intern will assist the Sales Team in Prospecting, Outreach and Qualifying leads, and work directly with the Business Development Manager. This position will provide sales, negotiation, CRM and inbound/outbound outreach experience.