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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

These companies are all over the map: B2B, B2C, SaaS, ecommerce, healthcare, SMB-focused, enterprise-focused, etc. A few stats to consider on the market opportunity in North America alone: 28 million SMBs in North America, with roughly 60 million employees. What customer retention strategies are working best for other florists?

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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

Your revenue plans are no longer valid. What’s your monthly cash burn at your new low revenue level? The CEO should dial through as many of the largest existing customers to get a firsthand understanding of the magnitude of any revenue shortfall. How can you shift focus to customer retention versus acquisition?

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Why revenue shouldn’t be your North Star Metric

VC Cafe

The CEO shared the revenue target for the year at X, and the revenue target for next year at 3X. One of the board members asked a simple question: “Why is revenue our North Star KPI? One of the board members asked a simple question: “Why is revenue our North Star KPI?”

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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad. The press took notice, especially since just a few months later startups were laying off employees en-masse to cut costs. Team, product, market.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their One Prediction for Business in 2022

Hearpreneur

To overcome these challenges, leaders will need to keep people at the center of our conversations, and organizations will need to help their employees build emotional intelligence and expert people skills. You're likely going to be experiencing revenues in waves, owing to the pandemic booms and dips, and the varying regulations.

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9 Steps Proven To Build A Successful Sales Team From Scratch

YoungUpstarts

Generating revenue through sales, especially as start-up capital diminishes, can make or break a company’s success. Defining sales territories focuses selling efforts and prevents employees from targeting the same accounts and cannibalizing their efforts. by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Measure success.

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The State of Consumer Tech in Israel in 2023

VC Cafe

While Israeli startups successes are well known in the B2B space (cybersecurity, enterprise tech, devops…), B2C startups are unsung heroes… The landscape of B2C tech in Israel is blossoming, despite several challenges. Crossed the $200M in revenue and reached over 400 million unique users.

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