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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2

Steve Blank

In a business development role you’re out shaping the perception of your company in the market (networking), determining leads, and contacting leads. If you’re really bold, join an early-stage company (seed stage, Series A), but have conviction about the team. More than money, most of us crave impact.

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Traversing No-Man’s Land, The Go-To-Market Phase

YoungUpstarts

More than just sales, repeatability also means demonstrating product release repeatability, implementation success repeatability, and some marketing and lead generation repeatability. MVR is the smallest amount of repeatability a startup can demonstrate, while still proving its business model and market/product fit.

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6 Incentives To Master The Art Of Marketing Yourself

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, I talk to a fair number who may have a great vision and a strong engineering background, but have a negative interest in the role of public speaking in business. As a startup, you as the entrepreneur are the brand, the brand builder, and the major lead generator.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Real Ventures , an early-stage, Canadian-based fund, runs a two-day Founder Camp every six months. Note this model amounts to lead-generation for the expert network, so you may be able to negotiate a lower rate than normal. Here are a few other examples of services which do meet these two tests: Bootcamp. Numerous VCs.

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Snyk: How Freemium Can Help Your Start-up Grow from Series A to $2.6B in 30 Months

Cracking the Code

To double click on your last point, in the freemium model, you have to accept that some users are just going to be a cost center for the company and never generate any revenue. I see a lot of early-stage companies struggling with this. The tricky question is how do you define the threshold of value you provide?

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How to Turn Leads Into Loyal Customers: A 5-Step Guide for Startups

The Startup Magazine

Leads are the lifeblood of any company. Lead generation is crucial. That’s why it’s essential for startups to commit to continually improving their lead nurturing sequence. Determining these underlying reasons can be useful, but keep in mind that it’s a secondary priority during the early stages of a startup.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. Even without launching new lead generation campaigns, we were able to activate “frozen deals” from their pipeline. As a result, they were able to grow MRR by 50% in 6 months.

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