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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

ConversionXL

Depending on which channels you use in your marketing, this might include: Newsletters; Blog posts; Company social media channels; Personal social media accounts ; Influencers; Company and industry podcasts; YouTube; Paid ads (Google and social media); Messaging apps; Syndication platforms. Marketing software. Measurement.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. Private Equity Software and Services Directory. 4) Manage deal flow.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

They just assumed it was the way software companies worked. Unfortunately, threats work a lot better at incentivizing people to CYA than getting them to write quality software. When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. Sound good? It didnt work.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe.

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What Does a Demand Generation Manager Do? (And How to Become One)

ConversionXL

Manage a marketing budget that will drive the most qualified leads through paid programs such as content syndication, pay-per-click, and events. They’ll be heading up the team to develop new strategies, create new market segments , and define and measure metrics to demonstrate ROI to stakeholders.

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From CRM to CXM: Walking the Customer Journey

Venture Chronicles

CEM/CXM: SOFTWARE OR STRATEGY. The criticism that CEM is a business strategy more than a product category holds a lot of water, but with few exceptions the entire enterprise software category reflects business strategies that are enhanced by technology? First let us take a look at this thing called CXM really is.

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“Seed Is the New Series A” – Making Sense of the Confusion

View from Seed

For a SaaS software company, you better have several hundred thousand in MRR and 9 months or more of good cohort data to get a great round done. For all of these, the metrics and growth need to be the result of legitimate PMF and execution, not tricks. (If