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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

by Bill Lee, author of “ The Hidden Wealth of Customers: Realizing the Untapped Value of Your Most Important Asset “. No one can truly understand your customers or genuinely share their interests unless she is a customer herself. Your most powerful growth engine is your existing customer. Highly trained salespeople.

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4 Ways Sales Can Help Your Company Offset Losses From Trump’s Trade Wars

YoungUpstarts

Mexico, and Canada. Companies buying or selling products or parts across international boundaries are likely to see higher costs which, without effort, must be passed onto the customer. Your sales team should also investigate alternate ways of bringing value to the customers. It remains to be seen which U.S.

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Observations from my trip to India

Version One Ventures

Many of the most talented entrepreneurs and engineers left India to study and then work in the US and Canada. This dynamic is truly accelerating the learning curve in India. E-commerce (DTC and infrastructure), fin tech (lending, payments), healthcare and B2B marketplaces are some of the verticals that have seen tremendous growth.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

These are keepsake cards and many of our customers tell us that the recipients frame their cards. 9- Providing Legitimate B2B Customer Data in the Era of Mistrust. That's when I was struck by the idea: Why not provide a legit B2B customer database that is neither dodgy and nor a bad fit for a business?

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Q2 2022 portfolio in review

Version One Ventures

Inflection , a B2B marketing automation solution, raised $5M in seed funding to dethrone Marketo. . Firstparty , a customer analytics and attribution company, raised $5.75M in seed funding. . Inflection announced a direct integration with Snowflake for data warehouse-based B2B marketing automation. . Have a great summer!

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6 ways to monetize a user-based business model

The Next Web

We create the best experience for creating personalized books, cards and calendars then our customers pay us for these products. We continually improve these experiences to build more value for our customers. In other words, advertisers pay to present special offers to our customers. – Ben Rubenstein , Yodle.

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How CareerPlug Saved 25 Days of Work with Chargify Business Intelligence

Austin Startup

Chargify, the leading billing platform for B2B SaaS, announced today the massive productivity improvements and decrease in operating costs that CareerPlug has achieved using its new Chargify Business Intelligence product. and Canada. Visit www.chargify.com to learn more about Chargify Business Intelligence.