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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. Sales cycles matter though. HOWEVER, the length of a sales cycle is a strong consideration for most repeat successful founders. On one hand, I know some really successful founders actually opt for a *longer sales cycle*. (I

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. Sales cycles matter though. HOWEVER, the length of a sales cycle is a strong consideration for most repeat successful founders. On one hand, I know some really successful founders actually opt for a *longer sales cycle*. (I

Founder 48
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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Facts don’t change minds – true for both sales and customers. Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Tara Robertson – How to 10x Growth by Optimizing Customer Marketing & Retention. Retention is the most important thing – if that’s poor, nothing else matters.

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The SMB Guide To CRM In 2019

YoungUpstarts

Easy does it: The right CRM can work magic, serving as a single platform that can span across the entire breadth of an organization — sharing information and providing value for customer service, sales, product development, management, operations and more. Time to Act With Analytics.