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How to find and win your first 10 B2B customers

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” — Eilon Reshef , co-founder and CPO Coda had the same experience—finding their early customers through former colleagues and early employee connections: “My former colleague Noam Lovinsky was starting a company, and I said to him, ‘Hey, would you use Krypton [our name at the time]? .” But it worked.”

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How the most successful B2B startups came up with their original idea

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In addition to these juggernauts, I’ve also pulled in a handful of my favorite up-and-coming B2B startups, including Linear, Vanta, Stytch, Zip, Census, Persona, and Hex. Most B2B startup ideas did not come from the founder feeling the pain at their last gig (though many did). Every prosumer product (e.g. Art by Natalie Harney.

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How to validate your B2B startup idea

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Here’s how some of today’s biggest B2B startups began: Retool started as Venmo for the U.K. There are four ways to validate your startup idea—and it’s fairly clear which path you should take depending on your product and your experience in the problem space. Art by Natalie Harney. Forty percent (nearly half!)

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Measure This, Not That: Your Guide to the Demand Gen Metrics That Matter

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Marketing conversion metrics: Metrics tied to specific channels, like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google Search. He suggests tracking these metrics instead: Branded search volume growth: How often are people searching for your branded terms on Google and other search engines? We couldn’t agree more, Liam. Want to learn more about Metadata?

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The 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men Reprise

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Google invited Kevin to lecture their marketing executives—after they ‘Googled’ the term “ B2B Branding “ Check out Kevin’s recent Fast Company project, Face the Nation: How Sensory Logic Sees Secrets In Candidates’ Mugs. 3x startup guy, advisor, board member.

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