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Dr. Noufal Mais on the Importance of Differentiation when Building a Business

The Startup Magazine

TSM: What advice would you give to new eye doctors aspiring to start their own practice or business in optometry? Dr. Noufal Mais: I’d say to first understand the importance of differentiation. For example, I think I rushed into opening my second branch too quickly, and I should have established my business model more definitively.

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How to Write a Business Plan for Raising Venture Capital

Growthink Blog

For example, it’s not adequate to say your company is targeting small businesses, since there are several million of these. How many customers fit the definition? Carefully describe their strengths and weaknesses, as well as the key drivers of competitive differentiation in the marketplace. Need help with your business plan?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

What I find exciting about Freshdesk is that they may be able to do the same thing in customer support that Zoho did in CRM: a drastic downshifting of the price-point of a full-functionality, differentiated, cutting edge customer support solution. Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers.

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Search versus Execute

Steve Blank

One of the confusing things to entrepreneurs, investors and educators is the relationship between customer development and business model design and business planning and execution. When does a new venture focus on customer development and business models ? Here’s an attempt to put this all in context.

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Unlocking the Power of Data: Transforming Metrics into Actionable Insights

Duct Tape Marketing

07:11] With so many tools claiming the same space, how does Databox differentiate itself? [08:43] But yeah, so they definitely made a bunch of changes. I think the net of it is it went from HubSpot teaching a business model to follow to more of a partner program where you're reselling technology. Definitely.

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The Far Reaching Implications of The Social Business Model

Duct Tape Marketing

Even those that preach social strategy are generally talking about finding ways to use social tactics to support existing business strategies and models. My belief is that the real opportunity is to build a fully social business model, one that addresses the total picture of social behavior.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate. The general rule is one business model drives the business. As it happened, we did end up pursuing all three lines of business.