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Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech

TechCrunch LA

The company built its own point-of-sale system and commerce APIs in-house, allowing them to deliver a “seamless” customer experience, former Glossier CTO Bryan Mahoney said in 2018. Founded in 2014, Glossier is widely touted as one of the earliest breakout successes of the DTC model, and raised its Series E last July at a $1.8

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4 Strategies That Must Be Part of Customer Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

With the advent of social media and the pervasive move to smartphones, even customers who still prefer to purchase in brick-and-mortar stores have dramatically changed their shopping habits. These actions will help you drive sales, reduce costs and find better ways to compete, whether your business is online or on the ground.

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6 Trends Are Driving A Data Tsunami For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. exabytes per month at the end of the year.

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Lead Generation Is Still The Lifeblood For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Scott, just published a new book that I like,” The New Rules of Lead Generation ,” highlighting the changes wrought by the internet and social media. Social-media advertising. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 4/1/2014. One of these experts, David T. business David T.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). billion by 2014. Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media.

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Investors Measure Entrepreneurs By Cashflow Mileage

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. Social media is not rocket science. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. The timing of cashflow is everything.

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Performance marketing agency MuteSix bets on content and data to boost DTC e-commerce

TechCrunch LA

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. I oversee sales, marketing and partnerships, and my role is really trying to figure out which brands make most sense to partner with MuteSix.

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