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Sep 23Liked by Benn Stancil

This piece is being shared in hundreds of places right now with the comment “did this guy work here?!?”

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Sep 22Liked by Benn Stancil

I was really depressed until the penultimate paragraph, when I realized all of our problems are because we ARE embracing the messiness of the Enterprise. So, we are failing the Right way?

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This was sooo good! Awesome post (as always). For startups trying to pivot to enterprise - here is a protip. Just take your current website and messaging -- then redo it pretending like it was 10 years ago. Done. The enterprise clients will be beating down your door! 😂

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This is the hard truth

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Sep 22Liked by Benn Stancil

Option 2 is the way to go but a lot of VC's dont like the service part.

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Thank you for talking some sense into me.

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Excellent assessment. Was this inspired by Airtable?

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Sep 22Liked by Benn Stancil

welp, that's depressing

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