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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

There is no social media or marketing content that you have to create. They are just big markets, and this is why they are so useful. Therefore, the first thing to do is to find the best possible market for your business. Instead of Asia, you may want to target the largest market on the planet, i.e. the United States.

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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

If you’re a CEO who can’t quickly bias yourself for action and if you wait around for someone to tell you what to do, then your investors, or more likely the market, will make those decisions for you. Health of Your Current Target Market(s). Emergence of New Market(s). Sales pipeline/forecast. Marketing programs spending.

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2021 was a record breaking year for Israeli startups. What now?

VC Cafe

There are two main forms of exits for startups: trade sale/M&A or IPO. The effect is additional pressures on the talent costs mentioned above, where startups struggle to compete with larger players in the market. A burst in the global financial markets will certainly have an impact on funding for Israeli startups.

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5 Singapore Industries In Which To Get Rich

YoungUpstarts

Sales management. Many people don’t think of sales jobs as being especially lucrative. What they should remember is that sales jobs will often be more or less lucrative depending on the state of the local economy and the nature of the market. The question is: do you have the right timing?

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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

Both Sides of the Table

Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “ The Long Tail ” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. At the left of the graph is the “head end” of the market, where the “hits” are produced for mass audiences. Why is that?

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

Andrea Francis is a growth-hacking oriented marketer who loves to work with startups. Failure plagues those who believe in the traditional business plan; the long-term planning model; the belief that sales and marketing numbers are facts. Is it attitude or is it money? This is a representation of 2003 – 2013.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

At every one of them I was the person who wrote the proposals, did the technical interviewed on candidates, went on sales calls with the Account Managers to make them look good and got put on troubled projects to help right the ship. We created USA Rx to market a free product to save people money on their medication.