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A Technical Cofounder Tells You How To Find Your Technical Cofounder, Where The Stuff We Return to Amazon Goes, a Benchmark VC on Rethinking Your AI Startup, and More….

Hunter Walker

Here’s a brief smart take on thinking about what you’re actually selling as an AI startup (really as any B2B SaaS startup I’d say): “To do this, rather than sell software to improve an end-user’s productivity, founders should consider what it would look like to sell the work itself.”

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6 Reasons Why Technology Won’t Kill B2B Salespeople

YoungUpstarts

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. A new report from Forrester Research called “Death of a B2B Salesman,” predicts that one million U.S. B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020. I’ve seen first-hand the growth in the B2B sales industry.

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. guest author.

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

The report was co-authored by Berkeley and Stanford faculty members along with other contributors including Steve Blank , the Sandbox Network and blackbox teams. Founders that learn are more successful. Solo founders take 3.6x Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x

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4 Reasons A Diverse Sales Team Will Boost Revenue

YoungUpstarts

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , and author of “ Sales Recruiting 2.0: Competitiveness Project found that employers spend an average of 41 days trying to fill technical sales jobs versus 33 days for jobs in other professions. He co-authored “ Sales Recruiting 2.0:

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Why your company should have a single email address

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This guest-post is from Joannes Vermorel, founder of Lokad which produces sales forecasts for off-line companies. A client with a technical question our billing, unsure of the proper contact, decided to separately email sales@ , support@ and billing@. He has a personal blog about cloud computing. is here to stay.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.