StartupNation

JULY 11, 2025

They know the odds: around 20% of new businesses don’t make it past year one, and by year five, about half are gone. So, when investors look at small businesses to buy into, they aren’t swayed by hype. So, when investors look at small businesses to buy into, they aren’t swayed by hype. What are your main expenses?

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StartupNation

JUNE 29, 2025

Given that this rule by itself is of no help to anyone, let’s break it down to understand how sales best practices can be adapted to the unique situations that startups find themselves in. In each case, the answer to the question, “how many did you close?” Every single company that rushed to demo eventually closed the business.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Sell more and keep your customers happy Automate your eCommerce You need to make sure the processor you choose can integrate with your selling platform, that it supports the transaction types you use, and that it has the features you need. Here's how those factors weigh against each other at a bird's-eye view.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2025

Ever think about growing your business with the plan to sell it someday, cashing in on your hard-earned work over the years? Or if you’re an employee with stock options, are you aware of the increases in value you can make with your efforts? Is your business one that may be sold for profit someday?

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

Were you already engaged in a sales process with multiple parties, or was it really more of an opportunistic conversation between your company and them? Were you already engaged in a sales process with multiple parties, or was it really more of an opportunistic conversation between your company and them?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Let's say you buy your dog's favorite treats online. Your own customers need it. In this guide to email marketing automation, we'll walk you through what it is, how it works, best practices, and how you can get the most out of it with Zapier. Probably a shipping update, too. Learn more.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured. As a product or service you can often trade short exclusivity periods for the retailer’s willingness to spend marketing dollars promoting your product or give you better merchandising in the physical or virtual store. So Why Does This Matter?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

So that we’re speaking the same language I would define “exclusive” as a period in which your company is prohibited from doing business with certain customers or business partners, which is why many incorrectly assume this is necessarily bad. Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

A CRM is your prized possession in real estate. A customer relationship management (CRM) platform for real estate is there to make your life easier, streamline client communication and lead management, and give you that edge you've been looking for. Here are some key features I found most valuable in the top contenders.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

In this post, Tim offers B2B companies a strategy for creating digital products around customer experience gaps in their industries: B2B companies today have a strong desire to create better digital solutions for their buyers, recognizing innovative customer experience (CX) as a key ingredient to success in current markets.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

There will be both short-term and long-term impact as consumers and businesses are forced to change their behavior radically for weeks or months. There will be both short-term and long-term impact as consumers and businesses are forced to change their behavior radically for weeks or months. Remote Work and Education Support.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 4, 2020

And every business owner and founder knows that social media is one of the most cost effective ways to market your products and services. . We asked members of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) in Australia to explain how they use social media. According to some estimates, there are 3.80 billion users on social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. Overture (Goto.com).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. The answer? Something so simple.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Is your company looking for creative ways to stand out and connect with your target audience? Let’s explore this trend in detail, from what a branded podcast is, to examples of how companies use them to connect with their audiences. Business podcasts are a viable research channel. What are branded podcasts?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 16, 2021

Led by Jan Heybroek, the closed, coached conversations facilitate shared experiences around one presenter’s specific business challenge in a deep-dive presentation format. Business challenge: Scaling a SaaS business. Dan’s ultimate goal is to scale the business for a lucrative exit in about five years.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 17, 2022

Standing out as a startup or small business just got tougher. Census Bureau’s business formation data shows that more than four million people became founders in 2020 alone. That’s a record number of launches in a 12-month span—and all the more reason for your team to get creative. Neither will updating your logo or website.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. You would figure out how to monetize later. When you arrive at your funding milestone you have enough growth to raise money.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

And this is crucial: If you don’t have the right product or your targeted audience doesn’t buy, you need to figure out why and work on it. You might find another audience or market, but usually, you need to work on your product and improve the value you deliver to your customer. What is your solution to their problem?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The company’s business model is similar to Divvy Homes and ZeroDown in the United States and, in fact, Divvy Homes co-founder and former CEO Brian Ma and Zerodown chief operating officer Troy Steckenrider III are investors in Homebase. YC-backed Homebase is an alternative to traditional mortgages for home buyers in Vietnam.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

20 Tips for Pitching New Business Ideas to Potential Investors To provide you with the best advice on pitching new business ideas to investors, we asked twenty CEOs, Founders, and other professionals for their top tips. You should highlight the potential future earnings while pitching your proposal.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) Not surprisingly, the tighter your relationship with the firm, typically the more money you will earn: . Then private equity players gradually realized that value cannot be created through financial engineering alone. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, But they are also a tax on your time with portfolio companies, looking for new investments, running your shop and honestly they are a tax on your family life.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The sentiment suggests that despite an apparent revitalization, edtech isn’t at the same level of “value” in investor eyes like sectors such as e-commerce, consumer and fintech. How has edtech’s boom impacted your deal-making? Andreata Muforo , partner, TLCom Capital (a generalist fund backing uLesson).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

” On the new role, Rachel Chalmers tells me “Ravi and I have worked together for years and have a strongly overlapping shared value set around the importance of connecting entrepreneurs with corporate domain experts to create innovation and opportunities. .” The accelerator itself, meanwhile, has some news: new leadership.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

If making as much money as you can is your primary goal, however, prepare to be disappointed. “While the market has quickly turned to favor the buyers, the good news is that it isn’t broken,” according to Jeremy Abelson and Jacob Sonnenberg of Irving Investors. . Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

May 27 Clubhouse chat: How to ensure data quality in the era of Big Data. Among other topics, they’ll discuss the build versus buy debate, how to better understand data failures, and why traditional methods for identifying data failures are no longer operational. How to ensure data quality in the era of Big Data.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

However, sales reps are often missing the strategic insights, relevant business use cases and personalized content needed to sell to executives. Databook will revolutionize how you do account planning and how you prepare your reps to sell into their Accounts.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

In building FC this way, Mittal and Silver seek to crack a real problem: plugging into the Silicon Valley network, which operates more like a business network from a century ago, based on who you know, not what you do or what you’ve done. FC sees blockchain as one of the technologies that will shape the future.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 5, 2019

So should your digital strategy be focused on driving leads or building your brand? Answer: Your digital marketing must look after both the short term and the long term. Looking at these stages channels and applying them to your digital marketing strategy is important. Sales and brand. Brand builds momentum.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In this conversation recorded at ELC 2023, Segment’s former CRO Joe Morrissey and former chief product development officer Tido Carriero discuss how they turned sales-product tension into a successful $3.2B Joe’s start as CRO Tido: Joe, what were your first impressions of me? They should be selling on value.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

I use George Bush vs. Al Gore as allegory and I’ve been using it with entrepreneurs for years to sink in a simple point about how to communicate with the market. You imagined him as the kid in your class at school at the front of the room raising his hand at every question and saying, “Oooh, me. .”

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. Before you can actually invest, you have to manage your fund. When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. 1) Manage the firm . 2) Market .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A round that would’ve closed in one or two months in 2021 took three or four months in 2022 [ … ] We have definitely seen valuations tighten, and a lot of startups have pivoted into less cash-intensive business models.” Last year was a good 12 months of firsts for African tech startups. billion, according to data from Partech.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

While many of my friends bragged about their 5 condos in Florida I kept talking about how the real estate market was in a bubble – their gains an illusion. I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5%

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Maria Palmer of RRE summarizes : “You can’t pick a platform strategy that’s unique, but you can pick a platform strategy that your firm can uniquely execute. ” . I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. – What are your fundraising goals? Organize events in your vertical. AskAnything.VC

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