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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

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The New York Times, January 2001. A similar disappointment has plagued many mysterious campaigns of decades past (like those billowing sheets that teased new cars—a bold choice given 1990s designs). Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The New York Times, January 2001. A similar disappointment has plagued many mysterious campaigns of decades past (like those billowing sheets that teased new cars—a bold choice given 1990s designs). Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment.

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Strategic Fitness: Elevate Your Acumen, Allocation and Action

Duct Tape Marketing

Rich Horwath is founder and CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute He is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eight books on strategic thinking, including his most recent work, STRATEGIC: The Skill to Set Direction, Create Advantage, and Achieve Executive Excellence. [01:52] My guest today is Rich Howarth.

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). My general rule is that it’s good to be stealth in the early days while you’re building your product and testing your market. It’s a buggy product but pretty damn cool.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

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I think that mindset is useful to remind entrepreneurs that it is a shared journey and capital (whether active or passive) is a part of your success and your ability to access it when you need to and for the amounts you need is a very critical differentiator between successful companies and unsuccessful one. As You Start to Mature.

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5 Ways to Use Tech to Improve Customer Satisfaction

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With so many world-class options available for every product and service, the only way to differentiate in the marketplace now is how you treat your customers. A great example of someone who understood that is Audrey Gelman , who once addressed 400 of her clients at her New York office while being six months pregnant.