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10 Business Elements Required to Rise Above the Crowd

Startup Professionals Musings

Sustainable competitive advantage. As an entrepreneur, make sure you understand your direct and indirect costs, staffing requirements, margins and metrics to make sure these elements are in place. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/18/2015. Product distribution or service delivery.

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8 Ways An Investor Pitch Differs From A Product Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

Competitor positioning and sustainable competitive advantage. Of course, these should never be in a customer pitch, but investors expect an overall strategy with specific budgets, milestones and metrics. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/29/2015. Specific elements of your marketing and sales plans.

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8 Practices To Galvanize Innovation In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

From an insider perspective, 37 percent of CFOs now see the required target as a significant innovation every one-to-three years, according to the results of a 2015 IMA innovation survey. Stroh, which details the principles and metrics to follow for fostering innovation in any organization. by Patrick J.

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8 Secrets To Pushing Your Startup Ahead Of The Crowd

Startup Professionals Musings

The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Marty Zwilling.

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Interview with Clark Landry, Maple Media

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After I sold my last company, Shift, in May of 2015, I took some time off to look for the next thing to do. A lot of what we've been looking at are the metrics. It seem that now, versus a few years ago, it's a lot more competitive to try to get out and acquire a user profitably for an app.

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3 Important Facebook Marketing Trends in 2016

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billion in 2015 alone. The way to get ahead of the competition is to look at what they’re doing right and do it better. Facebook already includes some report automation tools in their campaigns to help track metrics, but you may want to automate some of the publishing effort too with Hootsuite.com or Argyle Social. That was $15.5

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. Ask Xi or Putin how that’s going for them.