Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2023

I’ll talk you through figuring out if you’re ready to hire salespeople, and make my pitch for why a founder-led sales strategy makes sense for early B2B startups. Pro tip on cold pitching for founders: Cold pitching in our current environment is a zero-sum game. How do you know you’re ready to hire a sales team? Virtually zero.

Minimum Viable Product 86

Minimum Viable Product Pitch Non-Profits Sales 86

Smarter With Gartner

JULY 2, 2021

The first and simplest step in hi-tech product planning is to share the concept inside and outside your organization. To start, you should pitch the idea to five or more people within your professional network. You need more than to hear that potential buyers think the product is a good idea. Listen for critical feedback.

Product 82

Product Minimum Viable Product Drivers/motivators Technology 82

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Seed: This is the initial stage of funding, and is generally used to employ the founding team and begin market research and product development. The company is past the MVP (minimum viable product) and is showing initial signs of success. With that being said, stop using your standard pitch decks.

Sell 78

Sell Minimum Viable Product Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 78

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Phase 2 – The Pitch. In The Pitch phase, you essentially take what you learned about your market’s pain points from the exploration phase to create an offer in exchange for currency. Trevor Owens shows how he uses the Exploration and Pitch method to validate a Vespa Rental business. image source. image source.

Conversion 126

Conversion Minimum Viable Product E-commerce Customers 126

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Luckily, there are all sorts of things you can do invite luck: Lucky people network. Lucky people pitch often. In the long run, it’s better to focus on developing a minimum viable product , launching, and optimizing based on feedback, rather than trying to get it right the first time with an untested idea of a “perfect” product.

Minimum Viable Product 78

Minimum Viable Product Legal Finance Government 78

Hubspot

JULY 25, 2019

Office space, administrative and legal support, business planning, prototyping, and product development. Seed funding, mentorship from industry experts, and networking. Do you have a minimum viable product (MVP)? Looking for ways to acquire and retain more customers … at a startup-friendly price? In the U.S.,

Minimum Viable Product 73

Minimum Viable Product Education Networking Legal 73

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

If you can offer an existing product at a lower price point, better quality, or ideally, both, you'll have plenty of customers. Network with other entrepreneurs: Use Meetup or Eventbrite to find events in the local startup community. Before you go all in, you need to know other people will actually want your product. (No,

Minimum Viable Product 101

Minimum Viable Product Legal X-functional Networking 101