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Selling to the enterprise: “Sell to few” vs. “sell to many”?

Version One Ventures

How do we differentiate between B2B start-ups that sell to many vs. sell to a few? Sell to few”: Traditional enterprise sales. Selling into this market requires the traditional enterprise sales approach, comprised of a large ‘boots on the ground’ field sales team that works with key decision makers (e.g. Final thoughts.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009.

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10 Reasons Why Your Marketing Plans Don’t Work

Up and Running

Differentiate yourself. Is it increasing sales by 20 percent per quarter? Strategies for various stages in the sales cycle. Remember that each tactic needs to meet your target prospects at each stage of your sales cycle (from prospecting, to qualifying prospects, to addressing their objections, to closing the sale).

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Why an investor rejection isn't a knock on you

Hippoland

Unless you have a differentiated angle / approach to the problem AND/OR significant traction, an investor won’t be able to understand why you stand out and why to back your horse instead of someone else’s. Note: by differentiation, I’m not talking about product or feature differentiation but outcome differentiation.

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Account-Based Marketing Software & Tools

ConversionXL

Choosing the right account-based marketing software can be a messy process. Some ABM software is an add-on to an existing tool. Some companies sell relevant software but not explicitly for ABM. Software can help with each: Identify the right accounts and targets within them. Measure how they respond. Image source ).

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Why an investor rejection isn't a knock on you

Hippoland

Unless you have a differentiated angle / approach to the problem AND/OR significant traction, an investor won’t be able to understand why you stand out and why to back your horse instead of someone else’s. Note: by differentiation, I’m not talking about product or feature differentiation but outcome differentiation.

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Are You Building Your Business With a Crock-pot or a Microwave?

Duct Tape Marketing

We work with a lot of technology re-sellers/dealers/vars and they sell complex and expensive software, which performs critical functions for mid sized and smaller large businesses. A new customer purchase, with software and services, easily runs into the six-figures. This is a not a quick turnover process. And what is it today?