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PODCAST 121: Lessons From Survival Mode: How to Kickstart Your Business with Matt Rizzetta

Sales Hacker

His wife was pregnant with their first child, and he went out on a limb to try his hand at entrepreneurship. What we’re going to be talking about is, of course, entrepreneurship since you started on North 6th. Matt Rizzetta: It was late 2009. You said great teams must pass the org chart alignment test.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

User Pilot

Frida Ahrenby : “I started out in sales in the TelCo industry, I started from working in one of the biggest TelCo providers in the Nordics, moving on to product management, then business development, and then a role in marketing and sales again. My official title was the ‘COO’ but on Fridays, I made pancakes for the developers.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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