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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

No one had differentiated a startup job description from a large company job. competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and customer discovery findings. Department Mission Statements – What am I Supposed to Do Today? No one had on-boarded these people.

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

A Moz article offers an example of informational modifiers for products: [product name] what is [product name] how does [product name] work how do I use [product name]. As Kevin Indig notes , longer queries tend to be less ambiguous. Design pages to satisfy active intent first.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

Time is short — it helps to refer to what those investors already understand. An understanding of product-market fit? What’s your differential business strategy? Your differential growth strategy? Your differential product? Every great consumer internet company grows up to be a unique organization.

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Value Propositions vs. Positioning Statements

Business Plan Blog

The main objective of a company’s marketing strategy is to define and reach the target customer demographic while differentiating itself from the competition. A company’s value proposition describes the key functional and emotional benefits of its products, services and brand. Identify unique points of differentiation.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

The name of our company came from the name of our flagship product. Since we’re a mobile app company we wanted a product name that was short, easily remembered, non-controversial and at least somewhat descriptive of the service. I built and grew a business with the key differentiator being speed.

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10 Tips for Startups and Small Businesses on Naming Your Company

crowdSPRING Blog

If you need help or simply don’t have the time (it took us nearly 50 hours to name “crowdSPRING&# ), you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 64,000 designers and writers to come up with your company name or a product name. Avoid names that are too narrow or too literal.

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Finding Your Voice And Using It To Make Ridiculously Good Content

Duct Tape Marketing

There were some references that just don't really apply anymore. 08:35): Like not just to, you know, fill a pipeline full of, of, of leads to throw over, to, to nurture and eventually end up in sales, but to really tell a story in a way that is going to differentiate us and our products and our services.