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Fundrise CTO: New SQL Tools Lead to ‘Wonderfully Seamless Solutions’

The Startup Magazine

Despite its decades-old roots, SQL is undergoing a renaissance, buoyed by SQL tool advancements in a variety of data-related tools. What Is SQL? SQL is a standardized programming language specifically designed for managing and interacting with relational databases, where information is stored in interrelated tables.

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Building A Sales Development Function for Early Stage Startups with Sally Duby

Mucker Lab

SDR Strategy & Model Checklist In the intricate world of sales development, finding the balance between art and science is crucial for a startup's success. Instead, identifying a narrow target market and focusing efforts there is key, especially for startups with limited resources.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Startups need to survive and thrive on a shoestring budget, which is why it’s based on rapid experimentation. Analytical capability: Possessing Excel or SQL skills to extract data and gather insights on experiments to make better decisions. Why do people think growth hacking in marketing is controversial?

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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

ConversionXL

We had built the world’s largest open-data community but—like so many startups—didn’t have a clear product-market fit. . To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. But since we were still a young startup, we deferred customer expansion tracking. . Opportunity.

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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

View from Seed

As the former Head of Product at Blue Apron where I also built and led our Analytics & Data Science team (I know enough SQL to be dangerous), I have an intuitive sense for the “when” and “what” of this role. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s what’s the difference (and what do you need)?

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Unlocking the Power of Data: Transforming Metrics into Actionable Insights

Duct Tape Marketing

At the time when I was joining, I was running a startup of my own and making a living but not going anywhere. So when I joined HubSpot, it was like, ooh, a steady paycheck and other people that seem really smart and doing digital marketing, which is what my startup was. That's hundred grand annual revenue.

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

Indeed, I did buy my latest startup, but the deal was done from a spare bedroom of my suburban home in Fresno, California for less than most people pay for a new car. And the funds came from revenue generated by my portfolio of web applications and websites that I’ve built over the past several years. My Background.