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As a result, focusing on the bigger picture and showing off how your product will change your target’s business tends to yield better results than hammering home its technical pedigree. Combining your metrics with your marketing campaigns. It’s quite often the case that your buyers will not even be the ones actually using your product.
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And from that flows decisions about what and who to spend time on,” says David Heinemeier Hansson , co-founder and CTO of Basecamp. “[My My cofounder and I decided] we weren’t going to have clients, we were going to have customers. With money comes influence, if not outright power. And lots of them. The short answer is no.
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are just as critical as understanding the fundamental SaaS metrics such as LTV/CAC, payback, etc. Nikki Ivey is Cofounder of SDRDefenders and Head of Growth Development at Cultured Perspective, a Black owned Startup Consultancy. “An entrepreneurial leader and advisor from a technology background. No one does it alone.
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