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7 Keys To Making A Business Out Of Your Great Product

Startup Professionals Musings

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing.

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Tech Support *is* sales

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You probably think of "tech support" as the bottom of the food chain. After all: Tech support deals with insane customers. Tech support answers the phone; a job even salesmen don't want. Tech support keeps angry customers at bay while having no power to effect change. Tech support is sales. Yep, that sounds lowly.

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One of the Biggest Mistakes Enterprise Startups Make

Both Sides of the Table

And of course the most successful technology companies: Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com [duh], Oracle, Microsoft all have loads of sales people. As in, “Well, as a tech firm we put tons of effort into APIs so that you can do your own integrations. Channel Partners Not Yet Formed. You need to implement them.

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The Difference Between Innovators and Entrepreneurs

Steve Blank

That) takes focus, diligence, discipline, flexibility and perseverance. Some of these world-class innovators get recruited by large companies like professional athletes, with paychecks to match. But what I’ve noticed is that it’s rare that the smartest technical innovator is the most successful entrepreneur. Lessons Learned.

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7 Modern Day Business Strategies For Long-Term Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

You may feel good when that first burst of customers arrives, but don’t assume that “ word of mouth ” and those early adopters will grow your business to match your dreams of success. In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. They won’t find you.

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Business Benefits Of Using A CMS

YoungUpstarts

The social distancing needs and huge traffic online has led companies to upgrade their online selling channels to meet the digital demand. The CMS comes with ready-made themes, templates, and frontends that can get edited to match business needs. It doesn’t require technical staff for updates. Businesses moving to online.

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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Today with every city, state and country trying to build out a technology cluster, following Dino’s progress can provide others with a roadmap of what’s worked and what has not. Tech investing is risky.