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5 Reasons Investors Should Keep Their Eyes On Omaha, Nebraska

YoungUpstarts

Here’s a word association game: what do you think of when you hear “Omaha, Nebraska”? Area for Improvement: Sales Skills. The remaining point for Omaha startups to improve on is cultivating sales skills. Sales aren’t glamorous, and universities aren’t teaching sales techniques to their students. But not for long.

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Hectic Holiday Season: 10 Tips For Rolling Out The Red Carpet For Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

In fact, in today’s market, there is a direct correlation between service and sales. Larry Sternberg, president of Talent Plus, a Lincoln, Nebraska-based firm that helps companies with employee selection, says it best. by Donna Cutting, Founder & CEO of Red Carpet Learning Systems, Inc. McKinsey, 2014).

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Sales process: buyer/ user/ influencer etc.? They also talked by phone to organic farmers in Nebraska and the Santa Cruz mountains. We offered some examples of what a sales funnel looked like. How can we attract buyers to our channel before they make purchasing decisions? Demand generation?

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2 Real Time-Saving Hacks That Every Entrepreneur Should Know

YoungUpstarts

When Bill Gates was asked by a student at Nebraska State what superpower he would want to have, Gates famously replied, “Being able to read super-fast”. As a business owner, calls are a very necessary evil – they interrupt my working day and flow but represent the most lucrative of all sales leads. Speed-reading.

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LLC Costs and Fees You Need to Know as a Small Business Owner

Up and Running

Arizona, Nebraska, and New York require new LLCs to publish a Statement of Formation in a local newspaper. Depending on your state, you may need to pay: Sales tax. Although you’ll collect sales tax from customers, you’ll need to send it to the state every month or quarter depending on how much you collect. Publication fees.

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Ending the Toll Roads to LP Fundraising

This is going to be BIG.

Picture this: Your family builds a tremendous business in Nebraska over four generations making black socks. He shepards you through a sales process and the family nets about $390 million after taxes. You make more black socks for more people in the western world than anyone. The next generation isn't interested in socks.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Lee Redden (MSME Robotics, Jun 2011) Research in haptic devices, autonomous systems and surgical robots, BSME (U Nebraska at Lincoln), Family Farms in Nebraska. Dollar size of deals is sufficient to be profitable with direct sales strategy. in Control Systems. The market is large enough for a scalable business.