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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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Improving Sales: The Excuse Departement is Closed

Both Sides of the Table

Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills. The result is a lack of knowledge of the process and of sales people themselves. I had never had any sales training so everything we did for the first couple of years was instinctual. I boil it down to this: sales people are sales people.

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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.

Sales 101
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10 Ways Your Startup Co-Founder Is Like A Good Spouse

Startup Professionals Musings

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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How to Pick a Partner Who Will Amplify Your Efforts

Startup Professionals Musings

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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How to Forecast Sales

Up and Running

First, allow me to deal with a very common problem: Business owners are often afraid to forecast sales. It doesn’t take spreadsheet modeling, much less econometric modeling, to estimate units and price per unit for future sales. New product or not, your sales forecast won’t accurately predict the future. That’s much harder.

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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

Dave was building a mobile app for matching college students who needed to move within a local area with potential local movers. One interesting thing about the Lean Startup is that it teaches founders about Sales and Marketing (and a bit of finance) without making them get an MBA or a decade of sales experience.

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