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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. stock exchanges.

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Deep Dive into Customer Segmentation (Part 1 of 2)

Tom Spencer

It is a critical step towards identifying growth opportunities in business and should be carried out before undertaking any of the following actions: Developing customized marketing programs (e.g. Demographic segmentation divides a market through variables such as age, gender, education level, family size, occupation, income, and more.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Start a knowledge base. Your company has (mostly) solved product/market fit.

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How To Get The Attention Of Top Executives: The “Sidestep” Method

Tsavo Neal

Instead, they rely on a small army of advisors who provide specialized knowledge based on their qualifications, experience, and skills. Let’s say, for example, that you’re a consultant who wants to help renewable-energy companies create effective business plans – and by “effective” we mean “able to help raise financing.”.

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The Startups Most Likely to Succeed Have Technical Founders Who Quickly Hire Businesspeople

Harvard Business

We analyze how the skills of employees relate to young firms’ likelihood of introducing new-to-the-market products or services and how that relationship varies depending on the skills of the founders. We hope our research helps entrepreneurs to identify the A-players their firms need in order to innovate successfully.

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Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business

Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments. The implication is massive: Naspers, Africa’s largest company by market capitalization, recently exited its classified e-commerce business in some markets.

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How to scale shared success through collaboration and trust

Kates Kesler

For instance, a marketing person may want to create a network that includes the finance manager who can release funding for a campaign, the web developer who can program the campaign pages and the product specialist who can explain the features and benefits of the solution.