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4 Ways to Protect Your Business From Wage and Hour Lawsuits
In 2017, employers were hit with over 8,200 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) wage and hour lawsuits, largely due to failure to pay the...
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How to Build a Digital Marketing Roadmap for Your Startup
As a startup in today’s fast-paced digital world, it’s difficult to promote your brand consistently and effectively if you have no plan...
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What Is the Working Capital Turnover Ratio?
Working capital is to a startup as wind is to a sailboat. Learn how to calculate and utilize this critical financial metric.
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How to Build a Customer Success Team (and When to Scale)
When to invest in a customer success team is a big question for many growing startups. Obviously, happy customers are key to business...
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How to Pick High-Quality Angel Investors
It pays to do your research and know the kind of investment partner you want to take on for the long haul. Look for these 5 qualities.
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What to Do If Your SaaS Business Has Long Sales Cycles
A long sales cycle can feel like agony for your SaaS business. If it takes you six months, nine months, or a year to bring in each new...
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Tech Banks Pave the Way for Better Startup Financing Solutions
There are a variety of tech banks and financing options that are friendly to SaaS startups. We discuss a few we think are the best.
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Why Is Brand Awareness Important for Startups and How Is It Measured?
Establishing and measuring brand awareness might be difficult, but it's important for growing startups. See why.
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How to Develop a Product Positioning Strategy for Your SaaS Startup
The goal of every business is to ensure it has maximum visibility both in the marketplace and in the minds of its ideal customers....
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How to Create an Effective Drip Campaign in Mailchimp
Learn how to craft compelling Mailchimp drip campaigns that convert leads into loyal customers. Follow these 5 email nurture best practices.
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Business Lines of Credit: What SaaS Startups Need to Know
A business line of credit can help growing SaaS startups fund working capital and manage cash flow. Here's what founders need to know.
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10 Ways to Create Brand Awareness Beyond Business Media Coverage
You may have tried emailing the press, using a PR firm, and making the most of your press kit. Great work. But you're making a big...
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What is Channel Sales and How is it Different Than Direct Sales?
One of the most pressing concerns for startups is how to get a new product in front of the right customers without having a marketing...
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An Intro to The B2B Sales Process for SaaS Startups
The most important thing you can do for your SaaS company when you’re starting out is to lay down solid foundations for success. This...
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Book Review – Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Every founder of a startup dreams of their company becoming the next Apple, Amazon, or Alphabet. Every entrepreneur imagines that they...
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Why Your Startup Should Own Its Own Content
Getting the word out about what you do is vitally important in any business. Working with the press to get your story in the news is an...
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What Is a Strategic Alliance and Should You Form a Horizontal or Vertical Alliance?
What is a strategic alliance? As a fast-growing company, you will likely come to a point when you want to team up with others to...
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What Is a Term Loan and How to Get a Loan for Your Small Business
Tech startups are often focused on a variety of high-profile funding options to help get their small businesses off the ground. Angel investors, incubators, and accelerators are sought-after sources of seed money for very early-stage companies. Raising a Series A round from venture capital investors is often seen as the next goal after those, with little consideration as to whether that funding structure is the most advantageous. While entrepreneurs know there are other fin
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Daily Active Users (DAU) vs. Monthly Active Users (MAU): How to Calculate Active Users for Your SaaS
Amongst the many SaaS metrics and acronyms floating around in the startup world, you’ll eventually come across DAU and MAU. Daily Active...
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Book Review – The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
It’s not easy to start a business, and it’s no easier to run it once things get going. If you want an easy job, you don’t become an...
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How Chatbots Work as Digital Marketing Funnel Automation Tools
No longer a novelty, chatbots are becoming an increasingly popular digital marketing funnel automation tool, providing businesses a way...
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How to Make Your Business Stand out From the Crowd by Leveraging Your Point of Difference
One of the most critical things you need to think about as you grow your startup is how to make your business stand out from the crowd....
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How to Improve SaaS Free Trial Conversion Rates
Free trials are one of the most effective ways to get new users to check out your SaaS product. In an increasingly crowded marketplace,...
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6 Tips for Creating a Brand Style Guide
You’re an entrepreneur – perhaps part of a small start-up, or an individual looking to make a splash. You’re not a massive corporation....
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