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The LinkedIn Growth Playbook for Startup Founders

Becoming the founder that everyone follows starts with authenticity and grows with consistent engagement—find out how to use LinkedIn to scale your startup.

Customer-Acquisition

Customer Acquisition for Startups: Growth Tactics for the First 1000 Customers

Build a customer acquisition strategy for your startup, choose the right channels to get qualified customers, and use KPIs like CAC to your advantage.

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Should Your Startup Be Outsourcing Customer Service?

Making decisions as a startup founder is difficult at the best of times, but even more so when costs and brand reputation come into play. Use our expert insights to determine whether outsourcing customer service makes sense for your startup.

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    Content Marketing, Research, Marketing Strategies

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    Loop Marketing for Startups, Part 2: Tailor Personalization Without the Enterprise Price Tag Generic "Dear {First Name}" emails aren't personalization. Learn how startups can use HubSpot's Loop Marketing Tailor stage to create experiences that actually convert.
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    Content Marketing, Research, Marketing Strategies

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    Loop Marketing for Startups – Part 1: Express Your Brand Before AI Does It For You Traditional marketing funnels are dead. Learn how HubSpot's Loop Marketing framework helps startups build brand positioning that AI will recommend to prospects.
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    Content Marketing

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    The Startup Playbook for Winning AI-Driven Search Discover how startups win modern SEO across Google, ChatGPT & Reddit. Learn the COMPASS Method for AI search dominance without enterprise resources or budgets.
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    Research, Marketing Strategies

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    The LinkedIn Growth Playbook for Startup Founders Becoming the founder that everyone follows starts with authenticity and grows with consistent engagement—find out how to use LinkedIn to scale your startup.
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    RevOps

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    How to Calculate Customer Acquisition Cost for Startups Learn how to calculate customer acquisition cost for your startup, find out what a good CAC is, and discover industry averages and strategies to lower costs.
  • AI-Driven-Sales-Analytics

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    Sales Productivity

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    Why Every Startup Needs AI-Driven Sales Analytics AI-powered sales analytics help startups sell better and scale smarter by optimizing funnels and focusing on high-value leads to gain a competitive edge.
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    Founder-led Sales

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    How to Build a Founder-Led Content Strategy in 2025 Your startup is a media company whether you embrace it or not. Learn how founder-led content builds trust, drives demand, and makes you the top choice for clients.
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    RevOps

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    A Guide to RevOps for Startups RevOps helps unite different activities in a startup. Find out how to incorporate RevOps in your startup to increase communication and boost revenue.
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    Founder-led Sales

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    How to Scale Your Founder-Led Sales Strategy Founder-led sales can be powerful for your startup’s growth. Learn how to create a scalable sales strategy that leverages your knowledge and network.
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    Customer Services

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    Case Study: The Cost of Not Listening to Your Customers A case study on how one company suffered five straight quarters or revenue decline as a result of not listening to customers and data.
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    Sales Productivity, Sales Strategies

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    Top Sales Tools for Startups Explore sales and pricing strategies for early-stage businesses and the sales tools that startup teams need to grow smarter.
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    RevOps, Sales Strategies

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    Business Development Strategies for Tech Startups Ready to take your startup to the next level? Explore different business development plans, strategies, and tools that startups are using to grow faster.
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    RevOps, Sales Strategies

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    Planning a Winning Sales Strategy for a Startup SaaS Product Launch Planning the sales strategy for a new product launch is more than posting on social media and outreach. Here’s how to approach startup sales for SaaS products.
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    Product-Led Growth, Sales Strategies

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    Product vs. Solution Selling for Startups Consumers today know what they want. Learn how startups can stand out from competitors by selling solutions, rather than directly selling their products.
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    GTM Strategies, Sales Productivity

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    How Investment-Backed Startups Can Leverage AI to Boost Sales Investment-backed start-ups should integrate AI tools into their GTM strategies to improve marketing, data generation, customer experiences, and sales.
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    Sales Productivity

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    11 Ways to Increase Startup Sales Productivity High sales productivity can save money, which is especially beneficial for startups. Learn how to improve your startup’s sales productivity with this guide.
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    Brand Marketing

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    Branding for Startups: Brand Identity and Website Conversion Learn about the importance of a visual brand identity, how to build a brand, and tips on how to create a high-conversion website.
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    RevOps

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    Unlocking Growth With a Good RevOps Manager Revenue Operations (RevOps) managers consolidate efforts, tools, and data involving sales, marketing, finance, customer support, and operations.
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    RevOps, Sales Strategies

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    Effective Sales Strategy for Startups Are you looking to increase sales as a new startup? Learn how to implement an effective sales strategy plan with this guide to startup sales strategies.
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    Content Marketing

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    NextGen Marketing in the AI Era: Content is King | HubSpot for Startups Toby Howell of the Morning Brew Daily Podcast, and Ben Sharf, CEO/co-founder of Platter, share insights about using content and media in your marketing.
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    Content Marketing

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    Mastering Media: From Traditional to Transformative HubSpot's VP of Media, Jonathan Hunt, shares a fascinating keynote on how media continues to shape successful brand and marketing strategies.
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    Content Marketing

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    Better Bolder B2B Branding with Kate Newstead of LinkedIn LinkedIn's Marketing Science Lead Kate Newstead has a conversation with HubSpot for Startups Brand & Content Strategist Ron Dawson about brand ads that stand out.
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    Content Marketing

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    Startup Funnel Essentials for Maximizing ROAS on LinkedIn Ruby James, Head of Marketing for LinkedIn for Startups, shares benchmark report and LinkedIn data to help maximize ROAS and funnel marketing.
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    Sales Productivity

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    The Ultimate Startup Sales & Marketing Planner Kit | HubSpot for Startups Everything you need to plan effective sales & marketing campaigns that make people interested in your business and happy to be your customer.
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    Content Marketing, Sales Productivity

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    Email Marketing Kit for Startups & Entrepreneurs | HubSpot for Startups A deep-dive into why email marketing is still important, strategies to do it effectively, plus guides and templates to get you going.
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    Research, Marketing Strategies

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    Growth Benchmarksfor Scaling B2B Startups HubSpot for Startups and LinkedIn bring you a reference guide to help VC-backed startups navigate growth at every stage.

Podcast

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Science of Scaling Podcast

Each week, host Mark Roberge (Sr. Lecturer at Harvard Business School, Co-Founder at Stage 2 Capital, Founding CRO at HubSpot) talks with the most successful sales leaders in tech to find out the science behind scaling a company’s revenue and sales.

Episode BlogPodcast Home | Apple | Spotify

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