B2B High-Tech Start-Ups: When Sales Work — and When Marketing Becomes More Important
results show that the right balance between marketing and sales is crucial. In early development stages, B2B high-tech start-ups particularly benefit from investments in personal sales: direct interaction with [...] customer segments and scale further growth. For the study, the researchers followed more than 300 B2B high-tech start-ups over a period of 20 months, including companies from industries such as IT, software [...] “The Different Effects of Mass-Media Marketing and Personal Sales Budgets Across the Life Cycle of B2B High-Tech Start-Ups” by Arnd Vomberg (HEC Paris), Maximilian Friess (Neu-Ulm University of Applied …