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Founders: Before You Hire a Sales Team, Consider These Options

Sales Hacker

In addition, approximately 35% of startups fail because there is no market need for their products or services. I’ll talk you through figuring out if you’re ready to hire salespeople, and make my pitch for why a founder-led sales strategy makes sense for early B2B startups. And 20% of startups get plain out-competed.

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“Content Free” Content

Partners in Excellence

A nice picture, with nothing more than, “Enroll in the service.” ” Well, I wasn’t sure what the service was. I started thinking, “if this is their content, then can the service be much better?” Did they think a pretty picture and an “Enroll” button was a minimum viable product?

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5 Steps to Validate New Hi-Tech Product Planning

Smarter With Gartner

The first and simplest step in hi-tech product planning is to share the concept inside and outside your organization. To start, you should pitch the idea to five or more people within your professional network. Step 5: Release a minimum viable product.

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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

ConversionXL

Not because they have a conversion problem but because they never really nail the product or how to market it. A corporation like Starbucks could pick locations by throwing a dart at a map and know they’ll at least break even with a new location and mediocre customer service. Phase 2 – The Pitch. Most startups fail.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

You’ll likely have to make a case to get developer and designer resources and bring your asks into the right formats for product teams to push them forward. Three things will help you with your pitch. Launch Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) when you can. Know the process. Start small.

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Selling into Startups 101: What You Need to Know to Find a Unicorn

Sales Hacker

Seed: This is the initial stage of funding, and is generally used to employ the founding team and begin market research and product development. The company is past the MVP (minimum viable product) and is showing initial signs of success. With that being said, stop using your standard pitch decks.

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The Ultimate Guide to Entrepreneurship

Hubspot

Some states require it for certain service-oriented businesses as well. Lucky people pitch often. In the long run, it’s better to focus on developing a minimum viable product , launching, and optimizing based on feedback, rather than trying to get it right the first time with an untested idea of a “perfect” product.