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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower

Beware of being swayed by big-name firms or impressive name-dropping. Make certain you explore these projects. Were they finished on time and on budget? Did the clients consider them a success? Are they publicly available? Although noteworthy, working with large corporations differs remarkably from working with startups.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Sales and marketing has been 30%+ basically forever, though undoubtedly Airbnb has enough brand recognition and loyal customers that if you turned off marketing spend then revenue would drop but not to zero. But ops & customer support is another 17-20% of revenue and arguably you couldn’t run the business if you took that away.

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6 Reasons Why More Is Not Better In Your Next Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Every successful startup I know has pivoted a couple of times, as they learn what really works in the marketplace and in the sales process. A simple test is to see if you can quickly name your top three priorities, and if every team member is able to respond quickly with the same three. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile.

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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name. Few people are paranoid about something they want and enjoy.

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Why good people leave large tech companies

Steve Blank

If they leave at least they’ll have ‘name of our company’ on their resume.”. The belief then was that most founders couldn’t acquire the HR, finance, sales, and board governance skills rapidly enough to steer the company to a liquidity event, so they hired professional managers. They’re lucky they work here.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. After a few months of talking to customers and working with sales, we defined the marketing Mission (our job) as: Help Sales deliver $25 million in sales with a 45% gross margin.

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Hypothesis-Driven Growth: How to Turn Data into Revenue

Duct Tape Marketing

A strong Rev Ops function is crucial for optimizing revenue generation and enabling marketing, sales, and customer success teams to work cohesively. 11:00] How do you address companies that take a very siloed approach to Sales & Marketing? [13:24] IBM's had sales operations, which is a portion of revenue operations for decades.

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