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[Review] The Sales Bible

YoungUpstarts

“Everyone wants to succeed at sales. ” Filled with motivational quotes like the ones above, Jeffrey Gitomer’s “ The Sales Bible ” is a hard-hitting, no-holds-barred compendium of ideas and techniques to boost one’s success in sales. ” and “Can you close a sale in five questions?”

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

To market to Muslims, companies could take note of the holy month of the Ramadan, offer halal products, develop shariah-compliant Islamic financial services, or create mobile apps. A key point to note here is that developing halal products doesn’t limit a company from cross-selling to non-Muslims.

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A Startup is Not a Smaller Version of a Large Company

Steve Blank

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao-tzu. Instead each is a unique stage of development with distinctive behavior, modes of thinking, physiology and more. If you read the academic literature or business press, you might believe that large companies and their business models are brought by the stork.

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