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You Found Your Product-Market Fit. Now What?

Harvard Business Review

In every start-up, finding initial product-market fit is a magical moment. But once you achieve initial product-market fit and are down the Sales Learning Curve (PDF), suddenly you are faced with a new challenge: how do I scale up the sales efforts? in quota for a rep (i.e., $1m to, finally, $2M in annual quota.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business Review

However, only 11% described themselves as being either “mature” or “advanced” on the learning curve. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve? The acquisition communicated to the market that Thales was shifting its financial profile to the high-growth business.

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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

One of the biggest obstacles is that traditional functional departments often can’t meet the needs of IoT business models and have to evolve. In IoT businesses, sales departments often struggle to determine how to best take a combined product and service to market. Engineering. and design and user experience.