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4 Ways Sales Can Help Your Company Offset Losses From Trump’s Trade Wars

YoungUpstarts

by Ryan Moore, Director of Client Management, Peak Sales Recruiting. Companies buying or selling products or parts across international boundaries are likely to see higher costs which, without effort, must be passed onto the customer. Here are four ways your sales team can help when tariffs are putting pressure on profits: 1.

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What is the secret to remote work? Just ask your Sales team.

Austin Startup

Halong Bay, Vietnam The world has changed. Meanwhile, Sales and Customer Success teams are plugging away, working remotely, as if nothing has changed. Sales and Customer Success teams have been “working remotely” for years with the most important people in your company… your customers.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

As there was no venture capital, these early startups were funded by early sales to weapon systems prime contractors and subcontractors. In the middle of the Vietnam War, student riots protesting military research forced the end of classified work on most college campuses.

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My Favorite Entrepreneur Story in a Long Time

Both Sides of the Table

It was about the founder of Sriracha sauce, David Tran, displaced from Vietnam when the North’s communists took power. Turns out it is a family-owned business started by a refugee from Vietnam and named after a small village in Thailand Si Racha. So he made hand-made batches in a bucket and drove it to customers in his van.

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NYU Commencement Speech 2016

Steve Blank

Yet everyone – investors, entrepreneurs, academics — expected new startups to follow the same practices that worked for large companies – write a business plan, forecast 5-year sales projections and build the product without ever talking to customers. When I was 18 I served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

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Entrepreneur Helping Business Owners Ease Their Inventory Management Process Through Innovative Software

Hearpreneur

It really started as an in-house software solution to address the stock woes that I had with my custom t-shirt printing business. Spreadsheets sort of worked for a while but it didn’t scale with my t-shirt business and it certainly didn’t help me to invoice my customers on time or avoid an overstocked situation.

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What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management

Both Sides of the Table

During the 2004 election he was accused of having made up material facts from his service in the Vietnam War in an election against somebody who didn’t serve in a war. Understand the Gravity of the Situation for Your Customers. Startups often have advisors that help on recruiting, fund raising, biz dev, sales, etc.

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