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Kate Sackman1.14.2020 Change can be tough, whether in a company or in one’s everyday life. People get comfortable doing the same thing all the time and may feel that change will require them to act drastically different. But in a company, if your organization is attuned to change and builds Read more…
Have you seen a great customer closeness idea in practice lately, or know a company who does a great job earning loyalty? Let me know about it in the comments or write bryan.rutberg@advantary.co. Customer Lifetime Value (sometimes known as Customer Long-Term Value and commonly abbreviated to CLV, CLTV or LTV) Read more…
Life is challenging – and being an entrepreneur often intensifies those challenges. Doing, thinking, planning, anticipating, living in the past, and projecting into the future all create stress, worry, and fear.
In my last post about pitching your company to investors and not your product, I half-jokingly concluded that my next post was going to be on pitching your product to customers and not your company. A few readers have since asked (thanks mom and dad) when I’m going to share Read more…
Pricing Strategy: Avoiding Common Mistakes Proper pricing is one of the most leveraged attributes in any commercial strategy. Everything else being equal to a higher price will drive a higher contribution than any other factor. Yet, pricing mistakes are all too common: Reduce the price instead of increasing value/utility Innovation Read more…
80% Growth in Average Selling Price A Salesforce Enterprise SaaS app company was selling a “tactile marketing” app to marketing teams in the enterprise marketplace. This app helped enterprise sales execs close more deals. Their offering was impressive and they had engaged some amazing logos. Despite their successes, they had Read more…
As an entrepreneur, especially an early stage founder, you’re heavily focused on developing your company’s product or service. It’s understandable that you would conflate your product and your company. After all, you’ve been conditioned to differentiate your product, describe the features of your product, and generally sell your product. However, Read more…
A CEO I invested in asked me about raising money from Sequoia Capital recently, so figured I would share with the group, hopefully, to share some learnings. We were two years into building Kahuna and we were again constrained by capital. We had closed Tier 1 customers and needed a bigger team Read more…
The United States Patent and Trademark Office was established in order to protect inventors and give them the freedom to operate without concerns or push by larger corporations. “The strength and vitality of the U.S. economy depends directly on effective mechanisms that protect new ideas and investments in innovation and Read more…
In my innovation workshops, we believe in learning from playing with ordinary objects. I’ve written recently about improving creativity using LEGO pieces. But pipe cleaners can also be very useful for exploring creativity. What’s special about pipe cleaners? They are simply thin wires coated with some fuzzy plastic material. What Read more…