The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Lead generation is crucial. That’s why it’s essential for startups to commit to continually improving their lead nurturing sequence. But operating a high-converting sales funnel when time and resources are scarce requires a nuanced approach. Startups can easily fall into the trap of building an unbalanced sales funnel.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

How to Pick a New Lead Generation Channel written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. If you want to find more customers than you have already, maybe it’s time to try a new lead generation channel. But often these early stage referrals come in slowly with no real flow.

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Hippoland

APRIL 9, 2017

3) You act cagey about information Early stage investors understand that there is a lot of work to do in an early stage startup. And then later you tell me that you need money to pour into lead generation. And if I ask you, “Oh, why aren’t you focused on converting those existing leads?”,

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

How to Pick a New Lead Generation Channel written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you want to find more customers than you have already, maybe it’s time to try a new lead generation channel. But often these early stage referrals come in slowly with no real flow. photo credit: 123rf.com.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

How to Pick a New Lead Generation Channel written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you want to find more customers than you have already, maybe it’s time to try a new lead generation channel. But often these early stage referrals come in slowly with no real flow. photo credit: 123rf.com.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Very few, if any, of these interactions are with a sales rep. This behavior has marketers pledging to up their demand generation budgets. Because if people are making up their own minds, without coercion from sales, creating demand is the best way to get them to choose you. Demand generation owes a lot to inbound marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2019

Image via Wikipedia As a mentor for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, I talk to a fair number who may have a great vision and a strong engineering background, but have a negative interest in the role of public speaking in business. The other four are: new product development, writing, time management, and sales/marketing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Think back to a sales situation with a friend of a friend, one where you started with a huge trust advantage: how much smoother and faster was the process? Day 1: Post hiring ad for lead generation VA. Your lead generation VA will be researching prospects according to the plan you develop. The One-Week Action Plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2017

As a mentor for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, I talk to a fair number who may have a great vision and a strong engineering background, but have a negative interest in the role of public speaking in business. As a startup, you as the entrepreneur are the brand, the brand builder, and the major lead generator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

As a mentor for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, I talk to a fair number who may have a great vision and a strong engineering background, but have a negative interest in the role of public speaking in business. As a startup, you as the entrepreneur are the brand, the brand builder, and the major lead generator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2013

As a mentor for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, I talk to a fair number who may have a great vision and a strong engineering background, but have a negative interest in the role of public speaking in business. As a startup, you as the entrepreneur are the brand, the brand builder, and the major lead generator.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

. ———— T o: Marketing Department From: Steve Subject: Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters Generating Leads Ownership If your company is going to a show to generate leads, then sales owns the show. This is worthy of an open and honest discussion with sales up front.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 14, 2014

to measure the sales ramp; marketing productivity of Cloud businesses. This metric measures the ratio of the annualized additional recurring revenue generated by your sales and marketing investments. This is the most standard CAC ratio for early stage SaaS businesses. This is a rough approximation.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2016

You will also need an advertising budget and sales/marketing professionals who can make that happen. In the early stages of business, sweat equity can often be a good substitute for cash. Anand Srinivasan is the founder of LeadJoint.com , an online lead generation tool for digital marketing agencies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

To compute the cost to acquire a customer, CAC, you would take your entire cost of sales and marketing over a given period, including salaries and other headcount related expenses, and divide it by the number of customers that you acquired in that period. (In SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world?

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Hippoland

JULY 19, 2016

And, it’s a big sales job. Moreover, often the CEO is still either doing all sales/marketing or is still heavily involved at this stage. Sales / marketing / customer acquisition most likely fall in this bucket. It doesn’t matter – he/she might need to do sales. Fundraising is freakin’ hard.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

The typical product lifecycle can be broken down into four stages: Introduction: Your product may still be in development and your marketing goals focus on generating awareness and motivating users to sign up and purchase. Growth: A sharp increase in users and sales. Decline: New user sign-ups and revenue begins to decrease.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If a consultant claims they can enhance your marketing efforts, pay them based on their direct impact on your incremental sales. Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe).

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

For websites, this can include “sales volume,” “number of visits,” “average cart value,” and a variety of other metrics. Visitors are important — no visitors, no sales — but they aren’t as important as sales. it’s a lead generation website, nothing is sold), conversion rate is the next best thing.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Keren Moynihan, CEO, Boss Insights , said, “Last week at an industry function, we asked a high rolling VC, “how’s your lead gen?” So we probed, ‘Oh, so you don’t need a qualified lead generation tool then?’ Her answer?

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 14, 2004

Timing: For an early stage company, I typically like to meet in person every 4-6 weeks. Sales Review -Detailed sales pipeline review by region -Key wins/losses – detail on the losses and to whom. Lately I have been skewing to more of a 6 week time horizon. This is where the heavy lifting happens.

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www.ashmaurya.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

Running through the complete process in the early stages makes you much more efficient in later stages as you get a feel for the industry and have warm introductions. You research the market and develop some materials that will improve their standing, sales, or prospects. Everyone needs to promote his or her business.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2011

While his strategic abilities are fantastic, our decision to bring him on as CEO was also motivated by his strong execution skills, as demonstrated by the conversion, sales and inventory growth he drove for Travelocity.”. “I I am very excited to join PetsMD,” said Calvoz. Veterinary care and pet services are a $15 Billion market in the U.S.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

So we know from this that the problem is not the quality of those sales people. They also know precisely how much additional traffic will need to be generated to reach the growth targets, and how many sales people are needed at a given productivity level, etc. SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

At these early stages, they know they have a problem, but they haven’t yet concluded how they’re going to solve it. Marketing at this stage needs to show that you understand their pain points and that you might have the right solution for them.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 13, 2019

SaaS sales and marketing teams can get overwhelmed by metrics. And while that figure is promising, early-stage SaaS companies need a ton of growth to survive. If growth is the best way to get out alive, marketing metrics do little unless they correlate with sales. Don’t focus on metrics like MRR too early on.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 1, 2006

And yes, having money allows an entrepreneur to do many things with his business like hire more talent, scale the back-end infrastructure, and ramp up sales and marketing. Sales are not ramping up quickly enough so let’s hire more sales people.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. These are great, but they are not repeatable by a sales organization. Who influences a sale?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2020

Early stage startups have plenty of challenges, but benchmarking helps pinpoint product-market fit and provide directional data. During the prelaunch phase, we do lead generation from Facebook Ads based on a recommended threshold cost per lead. Wondering how to use benchmarking for your own early stage business?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 20, 2004

While I am not a sales expert or spreadsheet jockey, there are 2 important factors to consider when building a sales forecast-ground it in reality and use a handful of simple assumptions so you can manage your key resources, people and cash, appropriately. Number of sales people 2. and see how it impacts your sales.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

Every business has long-term and short-term goals, sales targets, and expense budgets—a business plan encompasses all of those things and is as useful to a startup trying to raise funds as it is to a 10-year-old business that’s looking to grow. The projections include sales, costs, expenses, and cash flow. Leave them on the computer.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea. At this stage, simply list your primary revenue streams and your key expenses.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

On April 23, 2012, the SEC published guidance reminding issuers that “any offers or sale of securities purporting to rely on the crowdfunding exemption would be unlawful under federal securities laws” until the SEC adopts new rules. Most importantly, the crowdfunding provisions of the JOBS Act are not yet effective.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

This fertile crescent of B2B technology is an unbeatable homebase for a growing technology product’s sales, marketing, and success teams. A San Francisco office empowers “boots on the ground” B2B sales, marketing, and success teams. As pointed out by Forbes , this type of data analytics is hugely relevant in B2B lead generation.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

V5: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists and are doing lead generation for free trials / webinars / and content get customers profitably. Etc… At the pre-seed stage, a big way to stand out is if you have a V3 statement (as opposed to a V1 statement).

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