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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

Five Easy Pieces – The Marketing Mission After a few months of talking to customers , talking to our channel and working with sales we defined the marketing Mission (our job) was to: Help Sales deliver $25 million in sales with a 45% gross margin. The same was true for PR. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more.

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

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For example I’ve seen folks track branded organic searches (where the person came to the site by searching on your company or product name) against a “pr&# lead source. There are also other thing to think about. It all depends on what programs you are running and how you want to measure the overlap.

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How to Name Your Startup

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But name your startup John Smith and Associates and you’ve got yourself a problem. I’ve never named a company but I’ve named products a handful of times with decidedly mixed results (See my post on product naming here ). 7 Startup Customer Discovery Questions. Name ( required ).

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