Minimum Viable Product – Download FREE Guide
Download our free guide to MVP What does this guide cover? Tim Hampson & Qamar Aziz channel their experience and insight into an in-depth guide to Minimum Viable Products, their benefits, shortfalls and...
Slack your way to Startup growth
Last week at South by South West conference Stewart Butterfield, Slack co-founder, spoke about his disinterest in hiring salespeople to help his fast-growing startup sell to companies. That said, Slack didn’t leave...
Choosing a Company Name
Choosing a company name is hard but fun. It’s item number 1 on a startup’s to-do list. How can you choose a winner? The best way to come up with a company name is to first think about the sorts of names...
The Pros and Cons of Freemium
Freemium seems all the rage today, but how should you decide if this is right for your product or service? There are two factors to consider: Switching costs, and cost of service. How these interact determines if...
How to Start a Startup in 5 steps
Starting a business is an extremely exciting prospect. But before you get into it, here are 5 ‘how to start a startup’ tips. 1. Find your first customer, first. There is nothing more important when...
Why Pay Sales People Commission?
Maybe you shouldn’t. But it’s worth understanding why sales people in most cases are commissioned, when most other staff at best have modest bonuses, or in many cases a flat salary. It’s really...
CRM, Marketing, Social and Web Analytics Tools – Co-Petition
During our process of market research prior to launching SalesSeek, the team collated an extensive list of existing applications which also share space in the CRM, Marketing, Social and Web Analytics spheres. We...
Build Up Your Internal Advocate in B2B Sales
We all know about the importance of emotion in B2C. You don’t buy that dress/car/whatever purely for it’s functional benefit. In part, often in very large part, it’s to make you feel good about...
Business Plan Template
Entrepreneurs and Business Owners typically are action orientated and not ones for pouring over spreadsheets. There is a reason they did not become accountants. However, whether raising capital, or simply planning,...
6 Things Competitive Analysis Will Tell You
We see a lot of investment pitches from entrepreneurs ranging from high tech software to more humble local restaurants. More than half, probably 3/4 either completely ignore, or give lip service to competitive...