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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company

Steve Blank

We spent two days of analyzing and exploring their customer discovery visits just completed across South America, Africa and Asia. We’re Not Here for a Sales Call. Disabusing the audience of the notion that the visit is a sales call is vital to the customer discovery mission. But we are not here for a sales call.&#.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). I was recently on TWiST with Jason Calacanis. He wanted to raise angel money.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

Yesterday MiTú Networks announced that Upfront Ventures led a $10 million financing in what is now the largest producer of Latino online videos – primarily driven through YouTube. originally raised $3 million in financing from some of the smartest people in the industry including Peter Chernin, Allen DeBevoise and Shari Redstone.

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Why the Former President of Nickelodeon Joined mitú as CEO.

Both Sides of the Table

We = my father is from Colombia, South America, immigrated to the U.S. billion to finance US startups.) How about your largest increases in car sales? We* are now the mainstream market and we’re bringing more to your mobile phones and living rooms. (We His son then went on to raise more than $1.1

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Mastering The Art Of Listening

Duct Tape Marketing

The audio destination for business professionals host Jason Bay dives in with leading sales experts and top performing reps to share actionable tips and strategies to help you land more meetings with your ideal clients. So your costs and your sales effectiveness is increasing, not because you're winning more, but the customers you have got.

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30 Entrepreneurs Describe The Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) For Their Business

Hearpreneur

We have put a long-term goal of attaining the highest market capitalization, primarily focusing on our finances and management in a bid to achieve the highest market value and cap position. This has challenged me to take new risks and investments that have helped put my business on the market and increase its sales.

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Entrepreneur Making Huge Strides in the Digital Age

Hearpreneur

I had a falling out with an angel-backed startup where I assumed an executive technology role, and my former colleague, Artur, was our executive finance member. It is already incredibility simple to start a Facebook ads campaign, but it is equally challenging to generate sales. How did you come up with your business name?