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4 Post-Pandemic Marketing Tips to Help Your Business

Strategy Driven

For some, the key to survival was calling up venture capitalists like Mark Stevens for a quick influx of cash, but not everyone was able to receive funding assistance. Since you can’t always depend on a financing source to help you out when times get tough, you need to boost your marketing plan and develop loyalty among your customers.

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Why the Best Strategies Blend the Digital and Physical

Skip Prichard

According to Stanford Graduate School of Business Lecturer and venture capitalist Robert Siegel , this is false – nothing in life or business is ever that simple. Quality products that don’t break build customer loyalty. What are some ways to cultivate and develop this skill? Rob Siegel.

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How To Play Bigger

Eric Jacobson

And, to be a category king you need to be good at category design : Category design is the discipline of creating and developing a new market category, and conditioning the market so it will demand your solution and crown your company as its king. How category kings have changed the way Venture Capitalists invest in new companies.

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How To Play Bigger And Be A Category King In Business

Eric Jacobson

And, to be a category king you need to be good at category design : Category design is the discipline of creating and developing a new market category, and conditioning the market so it will demand your solution and crown your company as its king. How category kings have changed the way Venture Capitalists invest in new companies.

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How To Be A Category King

Eric Jacobson

And, to be a category king you need to be good at category design : Category design is the discipline of creating and developing a new market category, and conditioning the market so it will demand your solution and crown your company as its king. How category kings have changed the way Venture Capitalists invest in new companies.

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When You Can't Innovate, Copy

Harvard Business Review

Even in developed markets like Western Europe and the U.S., A venture capitalist there was essentially running an imitation fund. For instance, pioneers can command strong market loyalty that could be difficult for copycats to overcome. But, copying others is a reality of doing business. And it's not without risk.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible.