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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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PODCAST 139: The Science of Becoming a Better Sales Leader with Luke Rogers

Sales Hacker

Now, if you want to create your new apps, rather than the process that exists today of having to write endless lines of code and assemble huge development teams, what we actually enable you to do is put what we call primitives, but you can liken them to Lego bricks. He was the head of people development at Facebook.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matrix Partners and EZPR — February 21, 2020

SaaStr

Does David agree, “entrepreneurship does not get easier with time, it just gets different”? Do you need business development reps? You do want a clear contract to exist between sales and marketing for the number of MQLs that they have to deliver. What is the most common mistake B2B companies make in the hunt for PMF?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

SaaStr

Why is it no longer to come into large enterprises with a small contract and expand? He has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013, advised hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders. He said that serial entrepreneurship is potentially overrated. and Socialcam.