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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

Buyers became more critical due to a reduction in reosurces and as a result the entire process started to involve more people ultimately taking longer to close. Our research showed that LTV was much higher compared to other verticals we have worked in the past which made the decision to change our approach a no-brainer.

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Don Estridge, IBM PC Father, Startup Role Model

Startup Professionals Musings

He and Bill Lowe somehow managed to convince then CEO Frank Cary to give them a dozen engineers, a small budget, and a few months, to set up a small skunk-works called Entry Level Systems in Boca Raton, Florida, to develop a low-cost personal computer (code name “ Acorn ”).

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Four Tips For Retaining And Motivating Your Staff

YoungUpstarts

Getting this right becomes even more important when you consider that the most common reason staff members move on to pastures new is due to a strained or bad relationship with their boss. There are several different structures a business can adopt in order to create efficient and well-received management practices.

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Why You Should Build Your Startup to Sell (But Not to Flip)

Software By Rob

For a startup, this means avoiding “me too&# products, staying away from horizontal niches, solving a pain-point, and targeting a vertical niche. The lesson: stick to vertical niches. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. at 12:52 pm [.]

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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Inside the covers of these publications our customers had said that it was the product reviews that most influenced their buying decisions. Now this is worth stopping and thinking about for a second.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. I’m bracing my inbox for emails from disgruntled Gimp users explaining how charging for software is bad, commercial software is evil, and my mother dresses me funny. But I don’t buy it.

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You Should Probably Send More Email Than You Do

www.kalzumeus.com

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. For example, immediately after you confirm your email address, I’ll send you a link to watch a free 45 minute training video on improving the first run experience of your software. Greatest Hits.

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