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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

To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. 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.

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Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities

Duct Tape Marketing

And to be honest with you till a few years ago, I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a leadership team coach. 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. It’s loyal, it’s modern.

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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. It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model. For example: Create demo videos that answer every likely sales question.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

sites from scratch - Experienced with the majority of the social api’s (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Meebo, PayPal, Flickr) - Experience managing offshore dev teams - Most recently a Director of Product Development at an early stage funded startup [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: finding your co-founders [.]

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.