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Stop Thinking And Acting Local: Small Businesses Seeking Growth Should See Themselves As Global Enterprises

YoungUpstarts

Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. But going global can be an intimidating prospect for some. Attracting Overseas Customers.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales. Oh yes, and retail sales doubled with the new product packaging.

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Regulatory Tips for Medical Tech Startups Regulated by the FDA

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According to the FDA, between 2005-2009, sales reps from ev3 encouraged surgeons to use Onyx outside the brain in unproven and dangerous ways. The company incentivized sales reps to promote unauthorized uses and the sales reps even attended surgical procedures where they instructed surgeons on what to do.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the Future Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

Real estate professionals are well-versed in determining which properties are suitable for sale or rent. 10- Use of telephone sales and sales automation. A future trend that I see in my industry is the use of telephone sales for life insurance. Life insurance has always been largely a face-to-face type of sale.

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Announcing our summer intern class

David Teten

At Frictionless, David played in a key role in almost every facet of the business from sales to product management. His work at Deloitte has taken him around the world, advising clients from Brazil to China, and given him a global perspective on how integrated global business has become.

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Keys To Marketing In Latin America

YoungUpstarts

Start with a Look at Brazil. According to recent statistics, Brazil is a fast growing ecommerce market. It has been reported that online sales are growing now faster than those in the United States but what is even more important is the fact that ecommerce in Brazil is growing but brick-and-mortar retailers are slowing down.

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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

If you’re the CEO of the company that’s your executive team, whether it’s engineering, product sales, marketing, social media, and all these other functions, you need to have feedback loops, with checkpoints to track how well you’re executing relative to that plan. Or the Harvard of Brazil? We don’t know.