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Making Friends With Millennials: Evolving The Customer Service Story

YoungUpstarts

How they think and feel; their sense of community; and their appetite to share their opinions are all creating new paradigms for how any business, regardless of size, connects with its customers. When engaging with brands, they tend to prefer text-based interactions via social platforms and they expect an always on experience.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

Then we constantly, and proactively, facilitate introductions to the right mentors and advisors in our network. Those interactions vary – from mentorship and product feedback to learning about unmet needs in a market or understanding whether a sales channel is worth pursuing. In that way, we see the value from both sides.

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These 10 Key Elements Make a Business Plan Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Solution and benefits. Focus is the keyword here.

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Investors Expect Ten Essentials in a Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Solution and benefits. Focus is the keyword here.

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These 10 Key Elements Make a Business Plan Fundable

Gust

Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Solution and benefits. Focus is the keyword here.

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Ten Tips for an Investment-Grade Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Solution and benefits. Focus is the keyword here.

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What Kind of Workspace Is Best For Your Startup?

mashable.com

Whether that’s a funny ringtone or an impromptu blast of Rebecca Black’s “Friday,&# coworking can be a great way to network, make friends and have a built-in advisory board of people from many different industries. Plus, a lot of coworking spaces offer classes and seminars on new technology and tools.