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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

It dawned on me that we had a department full of people with titles describing process-centric execution while we were in environment that required relentless agility and speed with urgency. But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Then we paired it with a cool icon that represents wisdom and agility, Owl. For me coming up with the product was a challenge, I didn’t realize how challenging and important the name would be. It’s as important as naming your child! Kimberly Urosek. Thanks to Kimberly Urosek, Kin-Soul !

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. This year, marketing need to provide sales with 40,000 active and accepted leads, company and product name recognition over 65% in our target market, and five positive product reviews per quarter.

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See-Think-Do: A Content, Marketing, Measurement Business Framework

Occam's Razor

Then there is Agile for engineering. Why is it that SEO is only focused on our brand terms and product names, when there are 9 million additional intent-identified queries in the Do stage and 14.6 Because the consideration stage matches your marketing, which in turn matches the metric.

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