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Presenting the Perfect Pitch Deck that Secures Startup Investment

American Entrepreneurship

Example: If your product is an app designed to help people manage their mental health, explain how it offers more personalized tools than existing options backed by cutting-edge research or incorporates unique features like real-time emotional tracking. Investors know that projections that are years away will likely change.

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Building Scalable Startups: Strategies for Long-Term Growth

American Entrepreneurship

This could involve adopting customer relationship management (CRM) software to automate sales processes, using cloud-based accounting tools, or outsourcing customer service to third-party providers. The more you can reduce the costs associated with scaling, the more profitable your business will be as it grows.

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Why Navigating Politics Matters Even in the Most Innovative Environments

StartupNation

In fact, the speed, stakes, and shifting priorities can amplify the dynamics that large companies spend decades managing. A product manager might hold more sway than the COO when it comes to roadmap priorities. People back those they trust when it’s time to choose who leads the next big project.

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BE 2.0: Iterate for Greatness

Paul G. Silva

Iterating with Customer Feedback When MachineMetrics rejoined VVM during our third iteration, they thought they knew what manufacturing managers needed: better visibility into machine status on the shop floor. Lessons for Any Business or Project Both the VVM and MachineMetrics stories reinforce what I’ve seen in both BE 2.0

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The Essential Guide to Building Analytic Applications

What should product managers keep in mind when adding an analytics project to their roadmap? What are best practices when designing the UI and UX of embedded dashboards, reports, and analytics? What should software teams know about implementing security that works with the rest of their products?

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The Entrepreneurial Path: Essential Tips for First-time Founders

American Entrepreneurship

Prioritize Cash Flow Management One of the leading causes of startup failure is running out of cash. Financial projections in your business plan are extremely helpful in understanding the road ahead in meeting your goals. Stay adaptable, manage your finances carefully, and never forget the importance of persistence and self-care.

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15 Innovative Pitch Deck Designs That Drove Investor Engagement

StartupNation

I’ll never forget presenting to a particularly skeptical VC who kept questioning our projections. Rather than asking about projections, they wanted to know about execution, why we chose certain materials, how we handled unexpected challenges. “So that’s how it all comes together,” he said, almost to himself.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.". Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way.

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How to Find and Test Assumptions in Product Development

Watch this webinar with Laura Klein, product manager and author of Build Better Products, to learn how to spot the unconscious assumptions which you’re basing decisions on and guidelines for validating (or invalidating) your ideas. You'll learn: Why every product leader goes into a new project with untested, hidden assumptions.

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

As frustrating as contact and account data management is, this is still your database – a massive asset to your organization, even if it is rife with holes and inaccurate information. This buyers guide will cover: Review of important terminology, metrics, and pricing models related to database management projects.