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The leap from employee to entrepreneur – Small Business Spotlight

Up and Running

Sulaiman Sanni and his partner Ben Lamson were both working for Meltwater Group, a large, well known Software as a Service company, Su as a social media consultant and Ben as a sales manager. “The way we differentiate ourselves is that we’re much more than a platform. million in grants to emerging businesses since 1999.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

As I’ve helped entrepreneurs find their own product-market fit and connected them to potential clients, investors, and Advisory Board members, I’ve spent a lot of time telling them about the “cool kids”. I’ve also, of course, been spending a lot of time talking about this with our rapidly growing sales team at data.world.

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Raise Capital With The Skin You’re In: Blunt Truth from Don Charlton, CEO, The Resumator

David Teten

That sales process is harder when strangers are biased against people like you. One of the reasons I wrote a book about online networks a decade ago was that I saw their power to make sales more efficient, particularly for people who were not a priori in the right networks. HURDLE #1: INDIVIDUAL BIAS AGAINST THE “OTHER”.