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Strategy, positioning & the work itself.

Essays and playbooks from the CMO++ team written for founders and operators building B2B tech companies through their next inflection.

Strategy

Positioning is not a tagline. It's the operating system.

Most B2B companies confuse messaging with positioning. The cost shows up two quarters later, in pipeline that won't close and a team that can't explain why.

Shilpa Rao · Jan 22, 2026 · 2 min read