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Traversing No-Man’s Land, The Go-To-Market Phase

YoungUpstarts

In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. More than just sales, repeatability also means demonstrating product release repeatability, implementation success repeatability, and some marketing and lead generation repeatability. Minimum Viable Traction (MVT).

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Inaugural Investor Day @ FinTech Innovation Lab

David Teten

The event featured 6 newly-minted FinTech Innovation grads (selected out of 90) showcasing their progress after 3 months of incubation. The opportunity in NY is clearly heating up, both literally and figuratively, as investors turned out in 100+ degree weather to hear about emerging technologies in the financial sector.

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How Getting My MBA Helped Me Thrive as an Entrepreneur

Up and Running

However, I did learn a few critical things in the classroom, and beyond that received the support and mentorship I needed to incubate not only one but two business ideas. I agree with Cliff that some of the courses I took during my time as an MBA student haven’t yet been relevant for my career path.

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Finance and accounting biggest headache for small biz owners followed by tech

NZ Entrepreneur

LinkedIn doesn’t have to be just a recruitment or lead-generation tool – but can be a great resource for people looking to keep up with the latest trends and developments in certain business areas. If you’re time-poor, and keen to fit more learning into the time you have available, you can try listening at an increased speed – 1.2x

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs - Silicon Valley: The Next Renaissance

ReadWriteStart

The second was a scenario from one of our premium members around lead generation and qualification that we collectively strategized around. Lead Generation & Qualification With a Channel Partner. During today's roundtable, we had the program split into three segments. We also had a discussion on market sizing.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

ReadWriteStart

Then Taariq Lewis from San Francisco, California, presented Stanzr, a lightweight online events platform specifically focused on moving qualified leads generated through webinars towards a close. The next two customer acquisition strategies we will be expanding on are more aggressive guerrilla p.r.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012

ReadWriteStart

Well, at the very heart of the marketing and selling problem is the concept of lead generation. As the Internet became mainstream, this was largely replaced (at least in the universe we live in) by email marketing campaigns, so the key information was the email address of a lead. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs.

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