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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

Both Sides of the Table

Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. It’s what I call “ the evangelical phase ” of a company in which you’re out trying to persuade customers that a product you’ve designed is going to meet their needs better than other solutions on the market.

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Why buy IT? Why buy MINE? Why buy NOW?

Berkonomics

These are so succinct, so well defined, so precise that everyone in sales and everyone involved in marketing must be able to answer these three questions without pause, and convincingly. It would pay you to work over this set of questions in a special session with sales, marketing and senior management in the room at once.

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Why buy IT? Why buy MINE? Why buy NOW?

Berkonomics

These are so succinct, so well defined, so precise that everyone in sales and everyone involved in marketing must be able to answer these three questions without pause, and convincingly. It would pay you to work over this set of questions in a special session with sales, marketing and senior management in the room at once.

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10 Questions To Lead You To Timely Successful Change

Startup Professionals Musings

I see entrepreneurs every day who are trying to change the world with a new idea, and startups that are trying to survive their hyper-growth phase by changing processes to meet demand. The last thing you need in a startup is a false start, where you can’t deliver on a product change deadline, or a new marketing channel.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start with Professor Christensen’s definition: “An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.&#. They offered a product that didn’t even try to compare with Siebel.

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

TechCrunch LA

The framework of the agreement is expected to include VW making an investment into Ford-backed autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI. Freight railroad owner Genesee & Wyoming is considering a sale of all or part of itself, Bloomberg reported. The city recently launched a one-year dockless on-demand personal mobility program.

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8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

Both Sides of the Table

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. They evolve the product faster. They get the PR bump.

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