Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

I was a consultant and ethnographer, another teammate was a market researcher, and two others had the software engineering skills to build what the market needed. After a solid week of speaking with lawyers and attending webinars on real-time deposition software, we had mapped both the technology and the buying relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2023

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. These founders all seem to be pushing their technology, rather than highlighting their solution to a painful need. Limit the features and complexity.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

While reading a book called “ No Forms, No Cold Calls & No Spam ” by Latané Conant, I came to the realization that many vendors try to position ABM as a $40,000 technology stack problem. So what’s the difference between sales and account-based marketing? Dave says it best (who ran ABM at Marketo & Bizible).

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IP Marketing Technical Review Software Review 98

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. These founders all seem to be pushing their technology, rather than highlighting their solution to a painful need. Limit the features and complexity.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Over a coffee in a small office in Cupertino (yes, their name is related to their founding hometown), we talked about how it was the right time to build a new networking company due to the confluence of three major trends: cloud, software defined networking (SDN), and the consumerization of IT. The discussion struck a chord with us.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a demand generation funnel that fuels the pipeline, shortens the sale cycle, and generates revenue. Attribution software will tell you if your website visitors come to you through direct traffic or organic. Context matters, and attribution software is still limited.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

Techies Aren’t the Only Early Adopters: The TechCrunch reader used to be your target audience because they were the only ones leaping into new technology. Now the employees carry your technology into the enterprise via their own phone and cloud services. Word of mouth spreads faster and sales cycles are shorter.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Improved Sales Efficiency – A well-defined leads generation and prospecting strategy streamline the sales process, enabling sales teams to work more efficiently. To succeed in this fast-paced environment, sales professionals must remain adaptable, proactive, and innovative.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A chief technology officer (CTO) is a C-suite executive who is focused on scientific and technological issues including web applications, mobile applications, electronic and digital media development. The Face of the Product and Technology A CTO is often the face of the technology and product.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. Michael Eidsaune. (And

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

As a pre-seed investor at Remagine Ventures , half of our investments are in B2B Software, especially around technologies in the content creation, distribution, monetisation and analytics space. Metric Unremarkable Good Excellent Outlier ARR <$500k $500k-$1.5m $1.5m-$2.5m >$2.5m

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. Michael Eidsaune. (And

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2021

“Students of the Innovator’s Dilemma know that a new technology starts out being just “good enough.” And by making these tools accessible to users with just a few clicks, enterprise software providers can reach markets at a scale and speed that were impossible in the client-server paradigm. Today, it’s $100B+.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

They discussed how technology combinations present an unprecedented opportunity to protect health data, provide improved care, and streamline the path to innovative services for wellness. Creating Body Movement: 3D Spatial Interaction | XR Track What if you could use body movement and spatial technology to create music?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. There are a few things that make optimizing for B2B a different beast: The sales cycle is usually longer.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2021

Additionally, your supply chain, and business strategies are both sleek and economical, and yet, there is an issue: you persistently find yourself struggling to obtain sales and maintain the limited client connections you have. One of the biggest challenges facing your sales team is time management. Read on to find out more.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Next, Umakant Soni discussed Vimagino.com , a software for Web-based Q&A support to engage customers better on sites that are trying to draw people in and convert them into customers. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched. Vimagino.com. PowerStores.in.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

There are so many moving parts, from accounting to sales software to inventory management, that it can take up a huge amount of time and put a strain on a company’s resources. That’s why so many people have come to rely on technology to help them manage their small businesses. Sales Engagement Software.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses face challenges when trying to advertise and promote their business since they have a limited period to convince their customers to choose their product. Your SaaS business needs to educate customers about how your software works and what benefits it offers. Image: Austin Distel from Unsplash.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2019

How Technology Can Make Builders More Relevant Now To stay relevant in the changing landscape, builders must embrace technology. However, the technology piece benefiting the consumer and how startups are disrupting the industry does need to be discussed and in greater depth. The evolution of home ownership is happening.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

billion dollars and growing, leaders are investing in this software to improve customer interactions that lead to sales. The sales-cycle will no longer be filled with fragmented or piecemeal information conducted offline on notepads and whiteboards. With CRM revenues at 39.5 Time to Act With Analytics. The Bottom Line.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I know this language sounds formal and stuffy, but high-ticket service sales cycles are long. However, as an agency, clients expect you to be knowledgeable about shifts in the market, new technologies, approaches, tactics, and methodologies. A dramatic example of this is a software development agency offering UX and UI services.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I started my career in enterprise software in the 1980s and after some years working in other areas (outsourcing and online media) I am back in the enterprise software game. I have focused this as advice to entrepreneurs building enterprise software ventures today. Most enterprise software companies are self-funded sailboats.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

This shift in focus results in more efficient use of your marketing budget, shorter sales cycles, and a better customer experience. Programmatic ABM: One-to-many accounts marketing that leverages ABM software to tailor and personalize marketing programs for specific named accounts at scale.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Visual Semantics Visual Semantics builds cloud-based software to stream ‘predictive intelligence’ to AR/VR hardware and software applications primary for real time threat analysis. Candidates will learn our culture and how to go through steps of sales cycle with Lead Generation, B2B and B2C sales and account management.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Consumer approach to software for business users. Page 6: We already have several pilot customers including a very large, unnamed software firm. I had planned a balance of large companies and SMB/divisional sales but have changed my thinking. Reasons: cost of sales executives, long sales cycles, deep functional requirements.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Software as a Service (SaaS), the most mature of these segments, is comprised of end user applications like Salesforce.com. Forget everything you learned about software channels. Build Employee Software.

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Software Review Cloud Technical Review Sales Cycle 48

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

Your analysis should include media spend, creative production costs, software/technology costs, staffing, and agency fees. Often, we can’t see the full picture of a click converting to revenue, especially if the transaction occurs offline or after a long sales cycle.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

Compared to the B2C world, B2B attribution faces two challenges: Sales often take place offline. The sales cycle may last for months, or more than a year. You’ll almost certainly endure gaps between LinkedIn behavior and the close of sales. LinkedIn video ad metrics. Because relationships are complicated. Does it work?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2016

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. These founders all seem to be pushing their technology, rather than highlighting their solution to a painful need. Limit the features and complexity.

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Sales Cycle Social Media Viral Technology 120

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2018

He teaches online courses, runs several software businesses and hosts a handful of podcasts from his home. So, one of the things that’s made this company of one idea so viable really is all of the tools and technology and automation that we have available. Check it out. This is John Jantsch, my guest today is Paul Jarvis.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 12, 2014

If your startup has an amazing platform, product, or software, youre probably in the process of staking out big enterprise clients to target. Large companies have very long sales cycles. Its a different sales approach, but you have to be smart, professional, and  above all  persistent. Be persistent.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 23, 2020

We interviewed Michel Ruiz, CEO and co-founder of KaviAR Tech , an augmented reality software startup headquartered in Paris. With a 30-year history of leadership and innovation in marketing, entrepreneurship and technology, Michel’s vision is to solve problems and increase clients’ business success with the use of augmented reality.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

Every sales organization with more than a handful of reps or that is across multiple offices or time zones would benefit from having a sales methodology. I’ve been writing a series on a simple methodology that we used at my first enterprise software company. There are many out there and many books have been written on the topic.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

2,320 sign-ups; 39% of attendees were net new accounts; 34 sales-qualified opportunities; 5 new customers immediately converted with LTV of over $100k each (normally a 9 to 12 month sales cycle). How do you sustain growth that precedes the highest IPO in history for a software company? Results of iRidium’s ABM efforts.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. Evernote, Dropbox). 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”.

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