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Key issues in Marketing and Business Development Planning: Engage, Analyse, Expand, Innovate and Measure

Red Star Kim

Delegates reported a range of issues preventing an improvement in the quality of M&BD plans – from the difficulty in obtaining the necessary data at the outset, through time to conduct structured analyses of the data and the identification of opportunities and threats as well as brainstorming creative ways to address them.

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The 5 Stages of Entrepreneurship

Hubspot Sales

After an initial brainstorming session, you’ll need to narrow your scope and focus on one idea. In 2012, they got their first VC investment of $100 million and raised another $250 million in 2015. Instead, obsessively track your margins and brainstorm ways to increase them. We’ll explain how you can validate concepts below.