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How One Startup Developed a Sales Model That Works in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business

Many of our target wood-burning customers lived on the outskirts of town and had no reason to travel to the central market, where our store was located. Where a solar light can simply be turned on to show its value, a stove demo requires 30 minutes of time and extensive training about the technology. Photograph courtesy of BioLite.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

I eventually built up a little demo reel, and I started presenting that to other companies. People will just take a little bit of time and travel, or something like that. A firm like Deloitte that’s really large, and has many different practices, not just strategy practices, but also technical practices and operations practices, etc.,