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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Electric Vehicles – Lower battery costs powering adoption mean EV sales could reach 74 million in 2030. The All-Seeing Eye – Hardware and storage should be rethought from the ground up in the age of semantic video understanding, and powerful on-device models.

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Sales Is a Function of Marketing Pure and Simple

Duct Tape Marketing

Over the years one of the great breakdowns in many of the small businesses that I’ve worked with lies in area of sales. Now it might be tempting to conclude that what I referring to is a lack of sales, but what I’m really getting at is a misunderstanding there’s actually a distinction between sales and marketing.

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Looking for your summer internship? Look no further.

Austin Startup

Thrillbox Visual Semantics Visual Semantics builds cloud-based software to stream ‘predictive intelligence’ to AR/VR hardware and software applications primary for real time threat analysis. This position will provide sales, negotiation, CRM and inbound/outbound outreach experience. SkimKing SocialMatters.ai SocialMatters.ai

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[Interview] Troy R. Underwood, Author Of “How To Launch Your Side Hustle”

YoungUpstarts

Here is some of our conversation. There are some semantics in this answer. A business idea that might sound simple in conversation can transform into a multitentacled hydra when you actually map out the variables and pieces involved. What are some other ways to stretch your marketing and sales dollars?

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How To Identify And Solve Customer Pain Points With Greater Efficacy

YoungUpstarts

A customer isn’t receiving the sort of support that they need at a particular stage in the customer journey or conversion funnel. You’ll learn a lot from asking questions and studying the conversations between your customer support team and your customers. The sales clerk should then ask, “What do you need the paint for?”

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. It creates a feeder system of local businesses that get their first biz dev deals or sales contracts.

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Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?

David Teten

Other non-semantic variables are important as well. A well-named site can thus easily rank 10-20% higher than a poorly named one on a purely non-semantic basis. For a high sales price to occur, you need what economists call a ‘coincidence of wants’: a buyer with liquid cash and a need for your specific domain name.

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