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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

Large companies are sending employees to work at home. If you’re running a startup or small business, your first priority (after your family) is keeping your employees and customers safe. Next, take a look at your actual revenue each month – not forecast, but real revenue coming in each month. Laying off people?

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

The strategy, according to Google, improves ad recall (and, undoubtedly, YouTube revenues). 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. LinkedIn offers the chance to connect with customers—or potential employees.

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Serve It Up

Austin Startup

The decision is yours as to how you package up your offering in a way that matches your goals. If you have a sales model that involves relationship selling to high-level decision makers, you can be sure they would prefer a detailed proposal from you with a request to “sign here.” Is third-year revenue of $10M good or bad?

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How to Make Your Business Plan Standout for Investors

Up and Running

Tell me about their star employees you wish you had. Some of the best plans I have seen define the size of the market by amalgamating the revenues (reported or estimated) of their competitors. Knowing how you determined revenue and costs over a 5-year projection period let me know if you really understand your business or not.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

Cracking the Code

Build Employee Software. Employees are now powerful customers, not just their managers! By definition, your sales prospects are online - Savvy online marketing is a core competence (sometimes the only one) of every successful Cloud business (more.) Forget everything you learned about software channels. Mind the GAAP!

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The One-Week Social Selling Action Plan

Duct Tape Marketing

While big ticket products might carry longer and more complex sales cycles, high-end buyers are just as lazy as the rest of us, so they use the same methods: Google, social media, and yes, their inboxes. Step 2: Determine your targets’ revenue floor and ceiling. How can you estimate total yearly revenues if they’re not public?