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Simple But Powerful Tips for Naming Your Business or Startup

The Startup Magazine

A name is a label by which animate or inanimate things are called or referenced. When we think about names, pictures or qualities are evoked from the good to the grotesque. Therefore a good business name and slogan are key. Your business name is as important as a good business tax regimen. So, WHAT’S IN A BUSINESS NAME?

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How to Fill Your VC Fundraising Pipeline

This is going to be BIG.

First off, most people in the world can't name any VCs. I suppose if you're reading this post, you can name at least one--but I'm not even active anymore, so even if you could name a few, you might quickly find you have a relevancy problem. Everyone starts their fundraising the same way: 1) Open a shared Google Sheet.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

Siebel took off the most important features from the Database Marketing Systems and combined them with contact management solutions software. His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. Et voilà: the first CRM.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Demand Generation: Turning Tactics into Strategy

ConversionXL

It starts with having the right data in the system,” noted Kamil Rextin, who wrote about B2B attribution. Unless there’s a clear framework in place,” Rextin cautioned, “You’ll end up with a giant glob of names and companies with all kinds of job titles because someone left it as an open text field rather than a drop-down.”.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. I’ve used Asana extensively to manage activities firm-wide.

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The Modern Approach To Account Based Marketing

ConversionXL

If you’re selling B2B, you know it’s a wide and competitive market. Sorry, but ABM is not B2B, nor is it right for all markets, business models, or companies (just like every company should not be running freemium aka PLG for acquisition.) They won’t magically show up at your doorstep and sign a $100K cheque.

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