The following is a guest post by William Griggs. William is the Founder of Startup Slingshot, the resource for battle-tested startup strategies. Access the audio interviews of today’s featured growth practitioners, the full 43 page guide, and tons of resources here (free for now).
In today’s blogpost I would like to introduce my partner for Zero to 100, Stephanie (Schatz) Friedman. Stephanie has been an executive in 3 successful startups and was most recently the SVP of Sales and Customer Success at Xamarin which has since been acquired by Microsoft. Stephanie joined Xamarin as its first non-engineering hire in…
Josh York, CEO of Gymguyz, talks about his rise from being a broke 20-something to franchising 265 gyms nationwide. Source link
Lead generation is the heart of business growth. You need to drive new customers into your sphere in order to make conversions and build loyalty. When businesses talk about lead generation, though, they rarely address the role of link building. Instead, they emphasize increased lead generation through local marketing, better CRM, and predictive analytics. Without…
I’m going to tell you a secret. I have a very simple, 4-word strategic plan (devised it a few years ago).
There is much hand wringing in the startup ecosystem about various forms of signaling between the seed and A rounds. Conventional wisdom, and advice, abounds: entrepreneurs should never include a venture firm in their seed round because it’ll scare other VCs off from pursuing the A. After all, the “insider” VC has more information and…
Tesla shares were down after a third crash potentially involving the company’s Autopilot system occurred in March. May 16, 2019 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The U.S. economy continues to outdo expectations helping the stock market push back toward all-time highs set earlier this month. Housing starts jumped 5.7…
Today I had the opportunity to Arie Tom today on the impact of lead generation in the eyewear industry. How did you get into the industry? My experience with online marketing began 11 years ago while working at what was at the time a traditional advertising firm, McCann. That is when I first started to…
Working on a startup? Have a 800 pound gorilla you’re trying to disrupt? That’s awesome. But here’s a tip: Don’t talk about disrupting them.
Thanks to all of you who helped make the Zero to 100 event in San Francisco such a great success. Please find below a selection of photos from the event: Source link