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What Is Competitive Advantage? Its Nature & How to Find Yours

Hubspot

An offering can't dominate a market as another "face in the crowd." The most successful products and services have some kind of edge — a defining, compelling x-factor that captures and capitalizes on potential customers' attention. And most of what's reported in the New York Times can probably be found in the Boston Globe.

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Six Lessons on How to Build a Platform that Fuels an Ecosystem with Plaid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

But yeah, so that story kind of growing out of … at the time, the company was located in New York and it was a fintech developer community and it was just kind of growing out of that. A lot of my time is focused on internal infrastructure building, making sure that the company is functioning as it needs to function.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

It uses the formula PPVVC=S (Pain x Power x Vision x Value x Control = Sale) to help salespeople accurately gauge the probability of closing a deal. Growth requires taking market share from your competitors, while they try to do the same to you. Among the popular methodologies, this happens to be a favorite.

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