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6 Unforeseen Obstacles Every New Venture Must Conquer

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to many startups, I often spend hours with business owners helping them anticipate every possible obstacle to the adoption of their solution, and developing a rollout plan to include antidotes. In these cases, you need testimonials, usage details, and return-on-investment examples.

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6 Observations On Key Challenges Facing Every Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to many startups, I often spend hours with business owners helping them anticipate every possible obstacle to the adoption of their solution, and developing a rollout plan to include antidotes. In these cases, you need testimonials, usage details, and return-on-investment examples.

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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of any new product these days must include education and rollout marketing, perhaps equal or greater than the development costs. New offerings which build your brand will increase acceptance and sales of all solutions, not just the new one. Solution may require new category development time. Incent these early.

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How to Make Sure Professional Services Don’t Take Over Your Software Company

Both Sides of the Table

So when I meet with GRP portfolio companies that do enterprise sales I try to emphasize the following: 1. This might mean helping customers buy traffic, arb’ing deals, helping with RTB pricing or trading, etc. Often your sales engineers can do the customizations without bugging the core eng team.

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6 Ways To Improve Your Odds Of New Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus I was pleased to see my own insights covered in a new book, “ Why Startups Fail ,” by Tom Eisenmann, a Harvard Business School professor, who has mentored many more entrepreneurs, and authored more than a hundred HBS case studies from real-world startups.

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10 Obstacles To Product Adoption That Kill Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to many startups, I often spend hours with business owners helping them anticipate every possible obstacle to the adoption of their solution, and developing a rollout plan to include antidotes. In these cases, you need testimonials, usage details, and return-on-investment examples.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

Both Sides of the Table

Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners. So often exclusivity on mega deals is of huge importance to your potential customers or business development partners. So now that you’ve accepted (I hope) that exclusivity can be a massive opportunity if crafted correctly, let me delve into the topic.