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What To Do If You’re a Startup CEO & You Don’t Know How To Sell

Hunter Walker

Especially since VC pattern matching may inappropriately label people this way (can’t sell) who are merely nervous or new to their environment. If things are going great, you still may get a lower valuation or smaller round. Sales is just storytelling with a desired outcome at the end of the story. How does this harm occur?

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. In the 80s, the invention of the CD completely revitalized the industry and led to (literally) record-breaking sales.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. Great businesses can be built off this network, starting with matching talent and opportunity. Put another way, the ideal financing partner is a financing cofounder. What’s more, the sales and marketing costs of acquiring listings are expensive.