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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

Both Sides of the Table

And when you achieve product / market fit your company often ramps revenue very fast and you need to build an organization to address it from demand generation (aka marketing) to sales discovery to implementation and after-sales support. while your sales people focus on the near-term deals and hitting your quarterly targets.

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Pharma’s Productivity Problem: Finding More Blockbuster Drugs

Xconomy

What Booth didn’t say explicitly is that providing only a limited supply of drug candidates in the face of increasing demand is a key element in the venture investment model. With a limited supply of new firms coming into the business, venture’s ability to expand to meet demand is inherently constrained.

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Real Startups Never, Ever Discount Their Prices

InfoChachkie

For instance, offer phone support to a demanding customer, rather than lower-touch and less-timely email or chat. The question isn''t which price is more or less, it''s which option provides the greatest economic value to the client and price is just one component of that conversation.".

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9 Innovation Practices For Long-Term Business Health

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe these basic practices of innovation, paraphrased here, should be adopted by every new venture owner, and every business executive, as the keys to long-term health and success in every market served: Demand and reward innovation from all business elements. Make sure you have compensation and rewards to support this strategy.

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

TechCrunch LA

City officials and one dockless mobility executive told me that scooters upended bike share, and prompted companies to take some of their bikes off the streets do to lack of demand. The city recently launched a one-year dockless on-demand personal mobility program. Tiny but mighty micromobility. Case in point, Austin during SXSW.