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4 Attributes Your Next VP Of Sales Must Possess When Expanding To New Markets

YoungUpstarts

by Ryan Moore, Director of Client Management, Peak Sales Recruiting. When it’s time to hire a VP of Sales, there are a few common attributes you’re probably quick to look for. Relationship sales play a critical role in expansion—whether you’re entering an unfamiliar market or launching a new service or product.

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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. This is a series of templated websites for matching angel investors seeking investment opportunities with entrepreneurs seeking capital. Angel investors are people too. New England Investment Network. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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5 Flocks Of Investors Looking For An Enticing Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. The ACA is the angel industry alliance, which now includes a directory to more than 250 angel groups and 14,000 individual angels across North America. Angel investors are people too.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

Incepted in 2012, Alignable’s platform hit the market in 2014, and since then, we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of business owners in North America join. A few stats to consider on the market opportunity in North America alone: 28 million SMBs in North America, with roughly 60 million employees.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain The Future Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

Consumers skip through the classic Google ads on Youtube but they sit through “tutorials” their favorite influencers deliver and drive up engagement and sales with the discount codes tailored to the influencer. 9-More precise algorithms to match couples. Thanks to Daniel Shapiro, Fourlaps ! #8- 8- Podcasts. Photo Credit: Sarah Farrant.

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Flocks of Angels, and All You Need is One

Startup Professionals Musings

This is a series of templated websites for matching angel investors seeking investment opportunities with entrepreneurs seeking capital. The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 50 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 60,000 members worldwide.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli. Today, that niche has grown into a chasm and YogaFit® has become the largest training school for yoga instructors in North America.

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