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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. What They Do: Travel search engine. 2010 Net Income: $8 million.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. First Round Search , Startupschool , and GSV Passport are examples of comprehensive founder resources from investors. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. AskAnything.VC Advantages. Numerous VCs.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. Here is what their founder Leo Mirsky told us in the early beginning of the collaboration: Marketing was a mystery to us.

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How to Establish an Agency Content Strategy When Outbound Stops Working

ConversionXL

For example, searching Facebook for “SaaS marketers” yields the following Groups: You can also search Reddit to find relevant subreddits: Your clients may hang out in different communities than the examples above, but this is the time to put your detective hat on and look for popular conversations happening within each community.

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CXL Live 2022 Recap: Main Takeaways From 6 World-Class Marketers

ConversionXL

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Just like Peep, other marketers from hypergrown products, such as David Cancel (founder at Drift) argue that product-based differentiation is vanishing. He explained how lead generation uses a short term, sales-focused strategy. Gaetano DiNardi.

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[Interview] Ryan Bonnici of HubSpot On Inbound Marketing In Asia

YoungUpstarts

According to the study, 3 out of 4 marketers in Asia use mostly inbound strategy, such as SEO, content creation, social media, and lead generation to drive ROI. This makes even more sense given Facebook’s dominance in mobile; as this year, more people searched for local businesses and services on mobile as compared to on a PC.

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What to Outsource In Your Business

Growthink Blog

In an interview on his blog, billionaire and founders of the Virgin companies Sir Richard Branson said the following about Steve Jobs: "I admired Steve Jobs, although he was completely different from me. You should specifically consider outsourcing lead generation tasks that you don't already do, or that you do poorly or ok (but not great).