YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

However, they tend to be extremely difficult to navigate especially if you do not have a cofounder from and/or experience in that country. You are either a sales or product oriented startup company when you first start. Most if not all Enterprise companies are sales oriented. Indonesia from day one. Global from day one (GD1).

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davetroy.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Dave Troy: Fueled By Randomness Design, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Software home Twittervision Flickrvision About @davetroy ← Start By Taking Action A New Plan for Economic Development → In Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Cofounders Find YOU! And I’ve promised to talk about what it takes to find cofounders.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Fears over technology stealing sales jobs is nothing new, it happened following the advent of both the phone and Internet. Job Forecast Study ranks sales jobs as the number one job employers are currently looking to fill, ranking 10% higher than technical positions.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. What may come as a surprise, however, is that these differences have an important impact on sales recruiting efforts. Here are 3 secrets when sales recruiting in New York vs. San Francisco: 1. Think Donald Trump. So what about recruiting in New York City?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Vik Singh is CEO and cofounder of Infer , which recently raised a $10 million Series A round from Redpoint Ventures and provides data-powered applications to companies like Box, Jive, Nitro, Tableau, and Zendesk. . There’s friction in companies, and so the sales cycles are long. You are the sales.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

The company has done $400k in sales in less than two years and had an early test deal with a local supermarket chain that they were massively overperforming on. At this point, the very pregnant cofounder was weeping. Daymond offered to be an advisor. He had been at it for 6 months and had no sales or distribution lined up yet.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product. You have finally found a cofounder that can take care of the startup. What market are you targeting and how are you going to get sales? How much revenue are you generating on an annual basis? These partnerships need to bring in more revenue.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And I really believe I can do, on the sales part, so much more if I have additional people. Jason: That’s true in engineering; it’s true in sales; it’s true in marketing. Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. There’s a third alternative, and that’s a cofounder. Edwin: Yes.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

trillion in sales. I am a session singer and producer, and I wish clients and peers would give me more of an opportunity to work in the technical side of the business (such as mixing and editing). But only around 2% will actually achieve revenues over $1 million dollars. Female CEO’s of S&P 500 companies include Mary T.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues. Think about that.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Discord with a cofounder was one of the most fatal issues for a company. Bricabox cofounder advises, “When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

we had no revenue. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue. Instead, our strategy was to steer immediately into the revenue question because that was the top concern of investors in 2004. We made the mistake of listing three different revenue streams.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. There are things you can get for sales force if you use salesforce.com. So, for example, if you’re in a company with a thousand sales people, using salesforce, I also guarantee you they are not using Gmail. There are Microsoft outlook addo-ns that do exactly like this.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

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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The Startup Toolkit

JUNE 27, 2016

For months, his ex-cofounder has been actively undermining the confidence of his remaining team. She’s doing everything right and getting great early revenue, but sometimes doing things that don’t scale can be so exhausting that you lose sight of the goal for the tasks. Skills (e.g. They’ll help you see the light.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. Ron Oh and another factor to bring reality to the table - Sometimes you find out your cofounders suck.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. In the old model of Israeli startups, many Israeli executive teams would hire a vice president of sales in the U.S. to assist with the local go-to-market approach.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Maybe, dear asker, you do not need a technical "co-founder" at all.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

This is when I realized that I can use my business/sales experience that can and therefore I quit my job on the spot and started BuffetGO. At the time, I was a doing sales and marketing for a media company. I hit over six figures in my first year in business – and the company revenue has increased annually ever since.

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