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What’s more important: product or sales?

Version One Ventures

It’s the age-old debate among start-up circles: which is more important to the success of a start-up: the strength of the sales/distribution strategy or the quality of the product? To be successful, a stand-alone company needs a top-notch product and a clever distribution/sales strategy.

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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Over a coffee in a small office in Cupertino (yes, their name is related to their founding hometown), we talked about how it was the right time to build a new networking company due to the confluence of three major trends: cloud, software defined networking (SDN), and the consumerization of IT. The discussion struck a chord with us.

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

Compared to the B2C world, B2B attribution faces two challenges: Sales often take place offline. The sales cycle may last for months, or more than a year. You’ll almost certainly endure gaps between LinkedIn behavior and the close of sales. LinkedIn video ad metrics. Know exactly who you want to reach. Does it work?

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

Consumer approach to software for business users. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 6: We already have several pilot customers including a very large, unnamed software firm. Reasons: cost of sales executives, long sales cycles, deep functional requirements.

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Looking for your summer internship? Look no further.

Austin Startup

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. Candidates will learn our culture and how to go through steps of sales cycle with Lead Generation, B2B and B2C sales and account management.

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Your B2B Demand Generation Funnel: How to Create One and Mistakes to Avoid

ConversionXL

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a demand generation funnel that fuels the pipeline, shortens the sale cycle, and generates revenue. Attribution software will tell you if your website visitors come to you through direct traffic or organic. Context matters, and attribution software is still limited.

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Where are the greenfield opportunities in SaaS?

Lightspeed Venture Partners

One look at any of the market maps for marketing tech, sales productivity apps, HR tech or other functional areas within enterprises would tell you how crowded these traditional enterprise software landscapes have become… Is there another billion dollar company to be built in some of these areas?