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Fundrise CTO: New SQL Tools Lead to ‘Wonderfully Seamless Solutions’

The Startup Magazine

Despite its decades-old roots, SQL is undergoing a renaissance, buoyed by SQL tool advancements in a variety of data-related tools. What Is SQL? SQL is a standardized programming language specifically designed for managing and interacting with relational databases, where information is stored in interrelated tables.

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Building A Sales Development Function for Early Stage Startups with Sally Duby

Mucker Lab

Sally suggests considering a full-time Sales Leader when a startup has two or more AEs and SDRs and is on the verge of hitting a $1 million Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). However, for early-stage startups with limited resources, a fractional CRO (Chief Revenue Officer) can be a cost-effective option.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing.

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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

ConversionXL

To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. That difference cascades down the funnel, allowing you to track the ROI of your lead sources between inbound and outbound campaigns—all the way through to revenue. Here are the three lessons we learned along the way.

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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

View from Seed

As the former Head of Product at Blue Apron where I also built and led our Analytics & Data Science team (I know enough SQL to be dangerous), I have an intuitive sense for the “when” and “what” of this role. When to make your first analytics hire. Being a data analyst in addition to being the founder is a lot of work?—?you’re

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Sales and Marketing Misalignment Is Costly—But Avoidable

ConversionXL

Sales and marketing misalignment reduces revenue, lowers the quality of customer service, and can even dampen company culture. According to research by SiriusDecisions : Annual company revenue increases by 8.2%. In sales, the rubber meets the road with revenue, not with likes, and favorites, and retweets, and popularity stats.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

Our revenues have increased every quarter for the past two years. On top of that throw in a bunch of web servers and SQL databases, cross-platform 3D graphics code and a highly scalable physics engine and you get the idea. We are one of the fastest growing game and kid sites in 2009, according to comScore.