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

Sales Hacker

Streamline decision-making With a founder-led sales strategy, you’ll decide: How to price your products When and how to sell them, and Upon which markets to focus This is kind of a no-brainer: When you’re wearing all the hats, you can make faster, more informed decisions, which is particularly important in fast-moving markets.

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5 Steps to Validate New Hi-Tech Product Planning

Smarter With Gartner

To supplement your own network, you can attend Meetups or other events that provide an opportunity to interact with other technology professionals. Product managers may have confidentiality concerns and may hesitate to seek outside feedback, particularly when working on an innovative idea. Listen for critical feedback.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

The goal of growth hacking as marketing is rapid growth, using strategies and tactics that leverage (and even exploit) technology, platforms, and behavior to reach an end goal. Is there a price stumbling block? Users can then calculate pricing based on their chosen features. Slack started with a minimum viable product.

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QoS–Quality Of Service

Partners in Excellence

We complain, yet we accept it–this must be the price we pay to have this technology. Some suppliers have adopted a policy of having their products constantly in “Beta” as if that were a reasonable rationale for poor quality. . We’re deluged with new offers of products–all Minimum Viable Products.

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All Customers Aren’t Alike

Partners in Excellence

Are they risk averse, are they always the last to adopt a change, choosing to compete on price or other bases? We can, however, leverage this model of customer maturity to great impact, both in our introduction of new products/solutions, as well as maximizing the effectiveness of our sales and marketing programs.

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

Sales Hacker

Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of ‘exit.’ Seed: This is the initial stage of funding, and is generally used to employ the founding team and begin market research and product development. execs/board members/investors), then contact the company for product demo(s).

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

ConversionXL

The Concierge stage is about delivering the product promised in The Pitch, to a few customers with as little technology as possible. The reason you want to start with a small customer base & minimum viable product is so you can work with those customers to create an experience they’re truly excited about.