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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2018

Hearpreneur

We asked entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2018. #1- We have two key goals for 2018: To grow our user base to more than 1 million and triple our revenue. In 2018, we plan to share business successes with the community in which we are based. 1- Efficiency. 6- Expansion.

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The 5 Sales Tools Every Company Will Use in 2019

ReadWriteStart

The successful sales teams of the future will lean on these to win more deals: Personalized mobile apps. In B2B sales, the process is longer, but the premise is the same: Online research has replaced the old-school necessity of verbal description in sales. It’s 2018, and the office is now mobile. Cloud solutions.

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Is the Lean Startup concept of MVP dead?

VC Cafe

.” Steve Blank, “Is the lean startup dead?” ” The Lean Startup movement started out of necessity. Most principles of Lean Startup remain true, as described by Steve Blank in The Lean Startup Changes Everything : Business Plans are dead: Startups a series of hypothesis that need to be tested.

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WebSummit Presentations

For Entrepreneurs

I presented on two topics at WebSummit 2018 in Lisbon on November 6th. The videos are provided courtesy of WebSummit: 9 Secrets for Startup Success, A roadmap for B2B Founders Lean Startup taught the world how to find product/market fit, but in the. The slides and videos of those two presentations can be found below.

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Surprising findings from our 2017 investments

Hippoland

:( C) Though we did no investments in TO/Waterloo, Atlanta, Boston, and really anywhere in the midwest in 2017, we have done a TON of investments in these locations in the past and will likely look heavily there in 2018. 5) We skewed towards B2B companies. 43% of our companies are B2B companies. And love Lean Startup 101.

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Surprising findings from our 2017 investments

Hippoland

:( C) Though we did no investments in TO/Waterloo, Atlanta, Boston, and really anywhere in the midwest in 2017, we have done a TON of investments in these locations in the past and will likely look heavily there in 2018. 5) We skewed towards B2B companies. 43% of our companies are B2B companies. And love Lean Startup 101.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that. Brendan Sterne , who unearthed the above articles on Amazon’s process, notes that Amazon differs from the model advocated in Lean Startup, which “aims to put a concrete prototype in front of consumers to validate the product.”. Test launch tiny products. His solution?

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