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Doubling Down: Nina Achadijian, Partner at Index Ventures

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Index Ventures led the round with participation from the OpenAI Startup Fund, and notable angels including renowned operator and advisor Gokul Rajaram, Managing Director of Otherwise Fund Terrence Rohan, and AI luminary Andrej Karpathy, founding Research Scientist at OpenAI and former Senior Director of AI at Tesla. Check that out here.

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The 7 Biggest Mistakes CMOs Make (And How to Avoid Them) with the CMOs of Databricks, Zoom, and Okta

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“Typically that was the marketing hat in my case, but sometimes it was the sales hat or thinking about finance or other areas of the business. They didn’t hire a big branding agency or hire a research firm. “It was always thinking about the company first,” said Janine Pelosi of Zoom. ’ I said, ‘Why?

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5 Customer Marketing Strategies Guaranteed To Grow Your Business with Tara Robertson, CMO at Bitly (Pod 654 + Video)

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Know Your Customers You should always start with customer research, no matter what type of business you’re running. With customer research, you can see a 10x increase year-over-year in annual company revenue, customer satisfaction, and a 20% increase in upsell and cross-sell rates. How do you conduct customer research?

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How UX Researchers Can 4X Their Usability Test Response Rates With Userpilot

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Usability testing is an invaluable resource for UX researchers…but only if you’re able to recruit participants in the first place. This is a problem that our own UX researcher at Userpilot, Lisa, faced when she tried recruiting participants the traditional way. A website for recruiting interview participants.

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Dear SaaStr: How Do Enterprises Decide Which Software Vendor to Sign a Deal With?

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75%-90% of the time, enterprises have already made a tentative decision which vendor to choose before they pick up the phone or hit the Contact Me button or issue the RFP: In an established category, customers will pre-pick one of the Top 2–3 vendors based on brand, market share and research. Well before they even talk to a sales rep.

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YouTube SEO: A Simple Step-by-step Guide to Videos That Rank

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Stay organized and efficient by planning and scheduling your YouTube Shorts with Buffer — you can even cross-post them to Instagram and TikTok.   The process is pretty straightforward and very similar to the kind of SEO you’d apply to a web page or blog post to get in to appear in Google search results. 

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A CEO’s Guide to Marketing With Dave Kellogg: Five Things Every Founder Should Know (Podcast 515 and Video)

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Have you ever had a sudden realization that you’re spending more on sales and marketing than research and development? If you take the time to consider your buyer’s POV, the marketing team’s job should sharpen into focus. But, in reality, you will likely find someone who has varying strengths in different areas. Key Takeaways.