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3 Key Factors for Goal Setting in a Startup

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Once a startup gets through its early business planning and funding stages, your immediate priority will be on goal setting. If you’re a product company, everyone will naturally be interested in the release date of your software. The same applies to prototypes or MVPs whichever route you follow. 

This is a key step to ensure that you don’t over-promise and under-deliver. The relationship with investors is based on trust. Deadlines sometimes have the effect of breaking this trust. hence it is important to be careful about setting expectations right from the start.

Selling is not a pushy act, it is about empathy

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Sales has moved on from the dark art of attracting people to the one with honesty and goodwill. In this article, we talk about the importance of sales in building customer relationships and helping to create a pipeline. In some cases, sales also can be about recruiting beta customers to test early version of your product. In these circumstances, these beta customers sign up for a lower price but with the ability to contribute to product development to suit their needs.

There’s something artificial when everyone is agreeing

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There’s something artificial when everyone is agreeing: It’s weird when everyone agrees in a team or organisation. Sure, there will be moments like that but if it is a pattern in your founding team, then there are two problems: the leader’s too strong or you don’t have challengers. Either way, it is a sign that something is terribly wrong and you as a founder will need to act on it.

You don’t need to be the biggest brand in the world

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Biggest brand in the world: This is a great desire isn’t it? All entrepreneurs start with a great dream – to create the unicorns of the world. To be honest, a startup is probably simpler than that. The root of a startup is in customer problem. It might start with frustration, delight in an experience or finding a more efficient way to do things. Most of these ideas may not be the biggest brand in the world. But they have a humble start from having to solve a problem for a customer.

Building a perfect startup pitch as an entrepreneur

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Can you create a perfect pitch as a founder? The answer always is no, but you can create a pitch tailored to the right audience. This article is about what you can do to create a good pitch for your startup. It starts with the audience and making sure that you understand your listener. The same pitch will not work for a customer and investor alike.