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Founders: Before You Hire a Sales Team, Consider These Options

Sales Hacker

In addition, approximately 35% of startups fail because there is no market need for their products or services. 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. Plus, it’s your product: You believe in it.

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The Ultimate Guide to Startup Accelerators

Hubspot

Although, it can be assumed that some money is needed (whether through funding or bootstrapping) to develop a product, team, and customers — and therefore qualify to apply. Office space, administrative and legal support, business planning, prototyping, and product development. Do you have a minimum viable product (MVP)?

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. Prior to joining SendGrid, he spent 4 years at Citrix, where he drove the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. What were his core learnings from that?