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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

This meant that we were on three-month deadline, hoping to show some traction by demo day. We launched a week before demo day and were able to generate a good media buzz (I’ll get more specific later) by piggybacking Pinterest and reach a go-to market that was highly relevant for us at the time. Isn’t that fun?

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. Indeed, most of the innovations we've made at Smart Bear in the art of code review have already been duplicated by both commercial and open-source competitors.

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

ConversionXL

But such a simple funnel works only if you have a lot of inbound interest and a sales team focused on fielding inquiries. Since we had a sales development team of our own, we needed to factor in their efforts, too. by downloading guides, using the open parts of our product, requesting a demo). Image source ). Opportunity.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

Likewise, Android developers that want to target the upcoming wave of Honeycomb tablets will need to create variations of their apps for the different device types. Fortunately, this problem has created a microcosm of cross-platform mobile development tools.

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Sapphire 2012

Venture Chronicles

Walking the show floor revealed a lot of SAP people in every area demo’ing and talking about SAP products and technologies, and as @pgreenbe noted there wasn’t a lot of chaos and noise. users and only 29m reviews doesn’t suggest a high degree of interaction. It’s actually very pleasant to be on the show floor.

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Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities

Duct Tape Marketing

” We knew we wanted to do some sort of consulting work and we settled on… We thought we had some interesting things to say about teams in organizations. So when we started we were more broadly leadership development, team development across organizations. So try a demo and test it out at gusto.com/tape.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

This human touch can be as light as email follow ups, or as much as inside sales people doing multiple sales calls and demos. For example: Create demo videos that answer every likely sales question. Needless to say, we don't have the development team (or the vision in management) to make the product a killer one.