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5 Essential Guidelines To Selecting The Right CRM For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Once you go through the different software options, you will get an idea about the features, one should look for in a CRM. Ease of use is an important feature of the CRM solution. A lot of us tend to ignore the aspect of a product demo. This would include setting up the system and educating the employees about the software.

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How Do I Feel About the Snap IPO Given I Didn’t Invest?

Both Sides of the Table

We did know about Snapchat as early as anybody. But that narrative was fresh in my head when I first had the discussion about Snapchat. I don’t feel badly about that — Jeremy is smart, successful and a friend and there’s no reason to sit around and be jealous about his success — I’m genuinely happy for him.

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Top Hat Raises $22.5M Series C in a Tough Vertical: What Can We Learn from their Success

Version One Ventures

Top Hat co-founder and CEO Mike Silagadze said: “Most people we talked to were very skeptical about our marketing approach; they thought it wouldn’t work. If we’d listened to outsiders it would have been a terrible idea because they would have told us not to do it.”. They focused on revenue early on.

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Understanding What’s Going on in #LATech

Both Sides of the Table

I hope you’ll take a minute to read about Fika Ventures but by quick background it is a $40 million LA-based seed fund founded by three of our favorite local investors: Tianxiang Zhuo , Eva Ho & arteen arabshahi. See in the end, in LA VC firms are far more collaborative than competitive. We love LA!

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How to Optimize Your Referral Program and Boost Your Sales

Duct Tape Marketing

In most cases, your customers won’t care about getting a friend of theirs sign up for your company’s offer (whatever you have to offer) because they don’t see the value in it. It’s not that your referral program is bad, it’s that your customers won’t be motivated to use it , even if you give away a lot of money.

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Warning: The Truth Well Told

YoungUpstarts

Living in a fantasy world of denial can cost us our happiness and often our business or job. Here is another one – most of us will not change until the pain of not changing is worse than the pain of changing. Here is what most of us must understand and accept as truth. We are going to have pain either way.

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Entrepreneur Helps Businesses Focus on Passion Points Instead of Pain Points to Get Results

Hearpreneur

We had the opportunity to speak with Lisa to find out a little more about her background, her business, copywriting tips and any advice that she would have for entrepreneurs and business owners. Tell us about your background and what led you to start your business? Tell us about your business and what you do?