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6 Key Rules To Stay Competitive In The Digital World

Startup Professionals Musings

The old approaches of controlling distribution channels, saturating retail, and methodically scaling your brand awareness don’t protect you anymore. Simple metrics and your personal knowledge of the industry can’t keep up with all the relevant competitive forces. The real challenge is to win massive consumer preference repeatedly.

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Accounts Receivable Metrics You Should Be Tracking

YoungUpstarts

Invoice payment is the final step in the sales process and should be planned. Below are some key metrics to track when managing accounts receivable and planning to receive payments on invoices: Days Sales Outstanding (DSO). a software development and distribution company. What percentages of your customers pay on time?

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. In the past I’ve shared a cluster of metrics that small, medium and large businesses can use as a springboard…. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

ConversionXL

In this article, we’ll explain how to create a marketing playbook to align your teams and boost your sales opportunities. If a social media follower clicks through a casual post to see a formal sales piece, their experience changes, as does their impression of Visme as a brand. A marketing playbook gets everyone on the same page.

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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

I love good causes and social entrepreneurs, but a recent pitch to me about eliminating world hunger with a new product (harvesting algae at low cost) seemed to forget that really hungry people don’t have any money. Build a credible business implementation plan to quantify costs. Even a non-profit needs income to operate.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones – when finely tuned with appropriate data, smaller, specialised LLMs can yield comparable results at a fraction of the cost. Artificial Intelligence – Scaling global intelligence and redefining work: AI training costs should continue to fall 75% per year.

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10 Cash Flow Rules to Live By

Up and Running

Profits are what’s leftover after you subtract costs and expenses from sales. As soon as you have inventory (like most product businesses including manufacturing, assembly, distribution, and retail) or sales on credit (like most B2B businesses) or sales on credit, cash flow takes a hit. . It’s paradoxical.