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VCs Don't Owe You a Response or a Follow Up

This is going to be BIG.

The more direct you can be and the more information you have, the more efficiently your raise will go. If they say they need to talk to their team, ask, Are you going to talk to them as a champion of the deal or are you just double checking to see if someone else thinks you missed something in assuming this is a pass?

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4 Secrets to Creating a Sales Presentation Folder That Sells

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Use this space strategically to include your contact information, making it easy for prospects to reach out for more details. Attract Attention with Light and Texture People are more likely to recall information when using multiple senses. Write a Strong Call to Action Use a call to action (CTA) to move recipients toward your end goal.

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Dreamit Startups on the Front Lines of COVID-19

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These companies are actively deploying COVID-19 solutions in hospitals and healthcare systems to enable rapid testing, to limit exposure to the virus, to educate patients and clinicians on rapidly-evolving information, and to provide communication tools that reduce exposure risk for front-line healthcare workers. Testing & Diagnostics.

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Innovation Indicators

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

They play a number of important roles and one of them is to educate and inform about the impact of the tech sector in NY. Tech:NYC is the industry association for NY’s tech sector. To that end, they launched a valuable resource last month called Innovation Indicators.

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How ZoomInfo Helps Overcome the Top Pain Points of Inside Sales

With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision-makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “buyer’s journey.”. Recent digital transformation has shifted the B2B landscape by ushering in the era of buyer empowerment. Download this eBook to find out!

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How to Get a VC's Attention at an IRL Event

This is going to be BIG.

Bottom line is that they’re going to need to do more work anyway and ask you to follow up—so why push a firehose of information at them now? This way, you get more information about the market, but it shows that you know that they’re pre-seed and not Series A. They can’t look around and see if anyone seems to be doing it.

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Let's Talk About Anxiety, Fear of Failure, and Why I Didn't Go to The Dentist for 27 Years

This is going to be BIG.

You dont owe them success, but you do owe them honesty, transparency, and a willingness to share enough information with others to enable them to help you. If youve started a company, and things arent going wellthe best thing you can do for your startup, your investors money, and for your own mental health is to ask for help.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and promote omnichannel marketing.

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The Recruiting Crossword Puzzle

On top of ever-increasing advancements on the technology front (hello, artificial intelligence), try adding record-low unemployment and candidates’ virtual omnipresence and you’ve got yourself a pretty passive, well-informed, and crowded recruiting landscape. The good news?

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How ZoomInfo Solves Recruiting Pain Points

More specifically, having access to updated information lets you engage faster with ideal candidates searching the job market. For recruiters to build their pipeline and search for the next candidate, they need to ensure they have access to the most accurate data on the market.

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Why B2B Contact and Account Data Management Is Critical to Your ROI

Businesses are realizing that it isn’t just about the volume of data they have available; it’s about the accuracy of information. The digital age has brought about increased investment in data quality solutions. However, investing in new technology isn’t always easy, and commonly, it’s difficult to show the ROI of data quality efforts.

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

As frustrating as contact and account data management is, this is still your database – a massive asset to your organization, even if it is rife with holes and inaccurate information. Entrusting a vendor to help maintain its accuracy and completeness is no ordinary engagement. What’s involved in their maturity process?

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2021 State of Analytics: Why Users Demand Better

Hanover Research recently conducted a survey that investigates the role of analytics from the perspective of knowledge workers, people who handle or use information as part of their jobs. But what do users really want?

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.