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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

And it was going to mention the two words that SuperMac marketing needed to live and breathe: revenue and profit. This year, marketing need to provide sales with 40,000 active and accepted leads, company and product name recognition over 65% in our target market, and five positive product reviews per quarter.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

Neither is a particularly good backdrop for trying to raise capital, because. we had no revenue. In a single year, the classic general partner in a venture firm is exposed to around 5,000 pitches; decides to look more closely at 600 to 800 of them; and ends up doing between 0 and 2 deals. Investors see a lot of pitches.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

Thus, join the ranks of Yahoo, Google, Amazon, eBay, Cisco and Microsoft and focus your limited time and resources on perfecting your customer value proposition, not on devising an ideal company name. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Intuitive URL. Avoid Hyphens.

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