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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog.

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

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Pipeline Measurements # of Targets - sometimes referred to as “suspects&# this is anyone in the universe who is on the receiving end of your marketing. of Leads – a lead is a prospect that you have qualified as someone who is a good fit for your product and is likely to purchase a solution like yours in a specific timeframe.

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How to Name Your Startup

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But name your startup John Smith and Associates and you’ve got yourself a problem. I’ve never named a company but I’ve named products a handful of times with decidedly mixed results (See my post on product naming here ). 7 Startup Customer Discovery Questions. customer development.

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