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Founders from MIT With a Plan to Change How We Grow and Eat Food

Both Sides of the Table

It’s true that we also fund more mundane stuff like B2B software aimed at productivity improvements but we want some big bets in every fund where we feel we can contribute to “making our own little dent in the universe” as the saying goes – by backing ambitious entrepreneurs with that same goal.

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A Guide to Reputation Management: Build an Audience of Superfans

ConversionXL

Salesforce holds as its guiding value “to make sure Salesforce is a platform for change,” delivering on initiatives such as renewable energy, carbon-neutral cloud computing, and green building certification. CEO Mark Benioff’s online presence ties directly back to this vision. Image source.

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The 16 Best Small Business Marketing Blogs You Should Read in 2019

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Social Triggers is the brainchild of Derek Halpern – entrepreneur, marketing expert, and one-man success engine. They offer both free resources and a Pro membership, and they host the annual MarketingProfs B2B Marketing Forum. Neil Patel’s Blog. Social Triggers. Image courtesy of Eventual Millionaire. Small Business Trends.

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How Modern Marketers Earn Trust Today

Duct Tape Marketing

” Melanie is also the Co-Founder of The Convoy and GroupUps, B2B marketplaces that help small businesses save money so they can invest more in themselves and their communities. That's true in like the B2B space. Key Takeaway: You say your company is amazing. But why should your customers believe you?

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JFDI.Asia Accelerator: Bootcamp Practicalities

YoungUpstarts

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Better to decide now that you would rather pursue a career path in engineering than in entrepreneurship. We use a red/green chart to measure startup readiness for Demo Day. Your job is to turn your column as green as possible before Demo Day – and beyond.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that. Most products are built by engineers and product people, and they are often uncomfortable cold calling customers to get meetings for early feedback. For products with more than one kind of user, we write more than one user manual.

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Surprising findings from our 2017 investments

Hippoland

Here in the US, green is always green. 5) We skewed towards B2B companies. As I’ve mentioned in a prior post, we are certainly biased towards B2B companies ! 43% of our companies are B2B companies. I’m doing this to make my investors money (and hopefully some for me too :) ).

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