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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out. Biggest lessons ….

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Serve It Up

Austin Startup

If you have a sales model that involves relationship selling to high-level decision makers, you can be sure they would prefer a detailed proposal from you with a request to “sign here.” In that case, you are not making a specific offer; you are soliciting a terms sheet. Decide to think big and ask big.

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Why Don't Universities Teach Sales?

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Who is this Julian Assange guy anyway? King&# Approach to Term Sheet Negotiations → Why Don’t Universities Teach Sales? A “Rich-vs.-King&#

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Premium Company Freshdesk Wins Funding From Accel Partners

ReadWriteStart

Freshdesk is a social customer support startup offering a SaaS solution to small businesses. As a result, they were able to get multiple competitive term sheets and negotiate both valuation and terms to their advantage with confidence. Loyaltepays.com.

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