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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. But he was getting uneasy that as his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department seemed to be rapidly declining. Help Engineering understand customer needs.

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

Steve Blank

The other departments in marketing gave the same answers; the product-marketing department said their job was to write data sheets. But my favorite was when the public relations manager said, “we’re here to write press releases and answer the phone in case the press calls.” Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

The name of our company came from the name of our flagship product. Since we’re a mobile app company we wanted a product name that was short, easily remembered, non-controversial and at least somewhat descriptive of the service. Thanks to Hilary Reiter, Redhead Marketing & PR. #5

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I started a couple of businesses before NCrypted and knew that finding the right name for the business is very important and you can’t take it lightly. My idea back then was clear that the name should address what we are doing and should be something that our target customers can directly relate to.

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

www.rocketwatcher.com

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. Rocket Watcher provides a practical look at product marketing for start-ups. There are also other thing to think about. April Amrita Reply 13.

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