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7 Keys To Scaling Your Startup To Be The Next Unicorn

Startup Professionals Musings

Switch your focus from product development to sales. Explosive growth to an enterprise normally requires a scalable sales model, a well-documented process with incentives, training, and metrics for tracking and management. Isolate marketing from sales for maximum customer focus.

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7 Short-Term Business Mistakes Can Limit Your Impact

Startup Professionals Musings

Yahoo has been an example of a company which expanded in all directions through 53 acquisitions, to the point where most customers were confused, and it was overtaken by Google as your main search engine. Obsessive sales – must meet revenue goals. Hypermetricemia – metrics for everything.

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7 Keys To Sustainably Enriching Your Customers’ Lives

Startup Professionals Musings

Happy customers quickly become your biggest advocates, today reaching far beyond friends and family, and they make traditional marketing efforts pale in comparison for growth, loyalty, and new customer acquisition costs. Use metrics to assess needs and growth economics. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/08/2021.

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6 Ways To Improve Your Odds Of New Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

No matter how passionately you believe that everyone needs one, and positive feedback from friends and early adopters (false positives), before you invest in scaling the business, make sure you set and meet good metrics in cost of customer acquisition, recurring sales, and margin. Needed help can be your biggest burden.

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7 Ways To Balance Your Heart And Logic With Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

To keep you on a positive track with potential investors, I recommend the following logic principles, to balance your passion in presenting your vision of a new business: Make sure your plan includes some business metrics. For example, if you have ever watched the Shark Tank show on TV, they always ask about the cost of customer acquisition.