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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Electric Vehicles – Lower battery costs powering adoption mean EV sales could reach 74 million in 2030. The All-Seeing Eye – Hardware and storage should be rethought from the ground up in the age of semantic video understanding, and powerful on-device models.

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Sales Is a Function of Marketing Pure and Simple

Duct Tape Marketing

Over the years one of the great breakdowns in many of the small businesses that I’ve worked with lies in area of sales. Now it might be tempting to conclude that what I referring to is a lack of sales, but what I’m really getting at is a misunderstanding there’s actually a distinction between sales and marketing.

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8 Ways To Beat The Odds Of A Consultant For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

An approach I suggest these days is for freelancers to contract for the actual role, probably part-time, of startup CFO, VP of Sales, or President. This is a minor semantic point, but an important one to the customer. There are a myriad of ways to make this happen in the world of startups. Here are a few: Take the end-role directly.

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5 New Realities of SEO

Duct Tape Marketing

5 New Realities of SEO written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Back in the day, SEO was more technical and less, well, semantic. Google officially rolled out a new search algorithm recently that employs a great deal of their progress in semantic search.

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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

This fertile crescent of B2B technology is an unbeatable homebase for a growing technology product’s sales, marketing, and success teams. A San Francisco office empowers “boots on the ground” B2B sales, marketing, and success teams. They live where the top customers live.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Another big innovator in helping manage cloud implementations is Okta , founded by Todd McKinnon, the former VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com (who knows a thing or two about cloud services) and Freddy Kerrest who was senior in biz dev & sales at Salesforce and was there from 2002-07.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

Both Sides of the Table

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. The secret to the software sales process. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer.

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