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.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Did they think a pretty picture and an “Enroll” button was a minimum viable product? (I What were the new features, were the new capabilities worth the close to doubling in price? It’s content that’s actually a thinly disguised “buy mine” sales pitch. I wanted to learn more.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

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. Set yourself up for luck. Understand that execution is everything.

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Hubspot

JULY 25, 2019

Do you have a minimum viable product (MVP)? Looking for ways to acquire and retain more customers … at a startup-friendly price? Will you choose to apply their suggestions and listen to their expert opinions about your business, product, and growth? A minimum viable product (MVP) and real customers.

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