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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) In these examples I was selling enterprise software where the vocab matched perfectly.

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Why Linear Funnels Are a Simplified Reality (and What to Do About It)

ConversionXL

Like any model it has its pros and cons. The biggest shortcoming being that it considers the sales cycle to be a linear process where a customer passes sequentially through sales steps and where he/she is the only one involved in the decision making process. sales page, cart, purchase, etc.)