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6 Reasons It’s So Hard to Sell Your Start-Up Stock as an Ex-Employee

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: I Have Some Shares in a Successful Start-Up I Worked At, But the Company Won’t Let Me Sell Them. And while it mainly impacts ex-employees, it also impacts angel and seed investors who are often blocked from selling as well. Why do scale-ups and startups do this? Why do scale-ups and startups do this?

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Freeing Up “Time To Sell,” A Quandary

Partners in Excellence

Since the earliest days of selling, our vision is to free up sellers time to sell! There are some necessary things–training and development to improve our ability to sell. Certain internal meetings to keep us up to date with strategies, priorities, and what’s happening with the company.

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SaaStr Podcast 467 (and Video): Bottom Up vs. Top Down Selling in the Enterprise with ThoughtSpot

SaaStr

He shares some wisdom about using both bottom up and top down strategies and suggests some principles for mapping these out based on what business intelligence platform ThoughtSpot has done. Gatekeepers: These people are responsible for protecting the business that you’re seeking to sell to. Do you have the right team to sell? .

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How the Google antitrust lawsuit can impact advertisers

Search Engine Land

The official complaints against Google’s anticompetitive conduct include: Acquiring competitors: Engaging in a pattern of acquisitions to obtain control over key digital advertising tools used by website publishers to sell advertising space. The legal proceedings could have numerous potential outcomes.

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Freeing Up “Time To Sell” Is BS!

Partners in Excellence

A friend forwarded me an article entitled, “Giving People More Time To Sell Is BS.” I call that TIme Available For Selling, (TAFS—just what we need, another acronym.). Our ideal is they spend 100% of their time engaged with customers, selling. ” Intrigued, I clicked on the link.

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Sales Contracts: Elements, Process & Best Practices

Salesforce

They also offer legal protection if a disagreement between the two parties ever goes to court. A sales contract is a legally binding agreement between a buyer and seller that outlines the mutually agreed upon terms of a transaction. Larger transactions, however, merit a contract to be reviewed by legal counsel.

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Dear SaaStr: When Do VCs Try To Replace Founders as CEOs?

SaaStr

First, if you really screw up, shouldn’t you be replaced? Second, if you don’t end up being a great CEO in the long-run, shouldn’t you be replaced when someone can do the next stage materially better than you can? Six tips: Don’t sell too much of the company. If you sell 90%+, you won’t remain in control. That’s fair.

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