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How To Survive The Loss Of A Main Customer

YoungUpstarts

by Zain Jaffer, serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Zain Ventures. When it occurs, the consequences can be swift and devastating, wreaking potential havoc on a once steady stream of revenue. Conduct a post-action review. Assess both the short- and long-term financial impact. Here, transparency is key.

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Building A Sales Development Function for Early Stage Startups with Sally Duby

Mucker Lab

SDR Strategy & Model Checklist In the intricate world of sales development, finding the balance between art and science is crucial for a startup's success. Drawing from a wealth of experience at Oracle in the late '80s, sales development expert Sally knows the nuances of this field. Sally's wisdom sheds light on this dilemma.

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Startup Runway Length Depends on Your Burn Rate

Startup Professionals Musings

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Pay people with equity or future revenue. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Focus precious cash only on producing revenue for your startup business. Great strategy.

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High Burn Rates Result in Short Startup Runways

Startup Professionals Musings

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Pay people with equity or future revenue. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Focus precious cash only on producing revenue for your startup business. Great strategy.

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Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Every founder frets about competition from a big company, me included. It always goes like this: I'm just a two-person operation with no budget. What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? It's not your purpose to "beat" another company.

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Don’t Get Burned By Your Startup Burn Rate

Startup Professionals Musings

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Pay people with equity or future revenue. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Focus precious cash only on producing revenue for your startup business. Great strategy.

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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. In the 90's, y'all, before that was built into all the operating systems!) But how does authority convert to revenue? Now Adriana has an epiphany? Our advantage was speed.