Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2023

Technologies that cure world hunger may find that that hungry people don’t have money, and government agencies as customers are a very long sales cycle. Examples of solutions from disruptive technologies include the appearance of personal computers, smartphones, the Internet, and the first social media platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2020

Technologies that cure world hunger may find that that hungry people don’t have money, and government agencies as customers are a very long sales cycle. Examples of solutions from disruptive technologies include the appearance of personal computers, smartphones, the Internet, and the first social media platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Creators of technologies that cure world hunger may find that hungry people don’t have money, but government agencies as customers are a very long sales cycle. Examples of solutions from disruptive technologies include personal computers, smartphones, the Internet and the first social-media platforms.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The company sells to local governments, real estate management companies, educational institutions--anyone responsible for public or private infrastructure. Slow sales cycles. Joe and Mary Bureaucrat who don't even use the internet because Smalltown, USA blocks it as the decisionmakers. how many salespeople do you have?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2016

Technologies that cure world hunger may find that that hungry people don’t have money, and government agencies as customers are a very long sales cycle. Examples of solutions from disruptive technologies include the appearance of personal computers, smartphones, the Internet, and the first social media platforms.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. Everything). 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

So the question is, does emotion play a role in making more sales online? Before we look how emotion affects sales, we have to ask if emotion plays a role further up the marketing funnel – specifically for driving awareness and getting more reach. Emotional Design Influences Sales. As it turns out, yes. image source.

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