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The 3 Steps of Provocation-Based Selling

Dream It

In addition to his books, Geoffrey Moore assisted in writing “In a Downturn, Provoke Your Customers” for the Harvard Business Review in 2009. His strategy for selling in 2009 is relevant to any economic downturn. Provocation-based selling turns these challenges into opportunities. But challenges create opportunities.

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The Four Tenets of Conscious Capitalism

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We are, indeed, in a moment in time when technology, opportunity and understanding converge toward a more caring way of conducting business at scale. Example: In 2009, Southwest Airlines decided to go against industry standards that were shifting toward fees for checked luggage. The new wave of consumers is making different choices.

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Preparing Your Startup for the Next M&A Wave

Revolution

While a few iconic brands including Uber, Airbnb, and Square emerged successfully from the last downturn, most venture-backed companies struggled during this period, and many ended up pursuing M&A strategies. While some adapt and survive, others end up retreating and creating M&A opportunity down the line for those left standing.

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Here Are the Details About Upfront Ventures’ Newest EIR – @Chamillionaire

Both Sides of the Table

This was 2009 and his understanding of audience engagement was far beyond anything I was hearing from most people at that time. When you see pitch after pitch – what works and what doesn’t – you start to get a sense of patterns of business model approaches, go-to-market strategies and the like. They make a great pair.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here: [link]. Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. We are one of the fastest growing game and kid sites in 2009, according to comScore.

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Taiwan’s funP Innovation raises $3.12m to fuel smart retail, cloud drive into Indonesia

AsiaTechDaily

“Ennoconn’s capabilities in AIoT, together with our own in cloud computing and marketing technology, equals the opportunity to develop pioneering retail solutions for Indonesia and beyond,” said Brian Yang, funP group Co-Founder, and Chief Strategy Officer.

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Automattic acquires analytics company Parse.ly

TechCrunch

And Gernert said there also opportunities to add more commerce-related data to Parse.ly, since Automattic also owns WooCommerce. was founded in 2009 and has raised $12.9 founders Sachin Kamdar and Andrew Montalenti are joining WPVIP, with Kamdar leading go-to-market strategy for Parse.ly Specifically, Parse.ly ” Parse.ly