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A Salesperson’s Go-To Guide To Improve Business Acumen

Sales Hacker

A person with good business acumen possesses or develops some measure of leadership, innovative thinking, entrepreneurial mentality , and strategic sense. A post shared by John M Barrows (@johnmbarrows) on Apr 15, 2018 at 10:21am PDT. Bonus: 45 Best Sales Podcasts to Follow in 2018. 7) Entrepreneurship 101: Who is Your Customer?

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

Delving even deeper into the entrepreneurial seas, Patrick was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Alpine Investors in San Francisco, as well as Program Officer at the Center for Entrepreneurship at Stanford. In 2012, he underwent a shift in his professional path and studied Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford.

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PODCAST 146: Why Following Your Passion Is Bad Advice (and what the good advice is) with Callie Moriarty

Sales Hacker

So from there, I went back to business school to get my MBA with the goal of shifting to a focus on entrepreneurship. Callie Moriarty: I used the business school to shift to entrepreneurship, and after I graduated I joined a really small startup that was pre-product, pre-funding, pre-revenue, pre-everything really. Sam Jacobs : Cool.

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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

of leadership roles. Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. Again…Why? Else : “Yeah absolutely.

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

Sales Hacker

Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. I went through a VP of Sales Program with SaaSy Sales Leadership — the moment I realized I didn’t want to be a VP of Sales. She is a Speaker and Hostess for LinkedIn Live. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

SaaStr

We could talk about CAK and LTV, and economics, and fundraising, and entrepreneurship, and SaaS and engineering, and product management, but instead I chose to talk about culture and people, which is a little bit of an odd topic for a CTO to pick up. In 2018, when you hear this feedback, and I’ve gotten more focused.