Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Trying to Figure It All Out Yourself Without a Sherpa-Guide Okay, so you’re a technical or product founder. Often, founders read a book or a few posts and wonder, “How hard can sales actually be?” This means there needs to be regular engagement from the advisor. You can pay advisors hourly, with retainers, and also with equity.

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Technical Cofounder 125

Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

“While the Kitchen offers both, our main value, according to members, is the live and asynchronous coaching and collaboration with the Kitchen’s cofounders and other experienced, creative peers to ensure you produce stronger work.” According to their site, the community is a hybrid that goes beyond community and classes.

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Branding Social Media Technical Cofounder Technical Review 93

Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

If you’re CXO/VP-level, make sure you spend time with this team during your interviews [1] and make sure you think they are “good people” who you trust and who you’d want to work with for a long time [2]. My favorite, well-documented example of this was Dan Lyons at HubSpot, detailed in his book Disrupted.

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Underperforming Technical Team Startup Software Technical Cofounder 79

Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

We should probably do an interview together. And if we’re talking to the right profile of person, they’re very interested in doing that interview and doing that case study. Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever. Could somebody come in and help with a technical conversation?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Nikki Ivey is Cofounder of SDRDefenders and Head of Growth Development at Cultured Perspective, a Black owned Startup Consultancy. These types of experiences will allow you to show up strongly when it comes time for the interview because you will have examples and experiences to demonstrate your skill set. No one does it alone.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

It’s not all technical. He is also a board member for the New Technical Fund whose mission is to fund organizations that enrich people with skills using new technical methods. Hang is always sharing advice on her LinkedIn feed, on her “Hang with Hang” podcast and in her book Embrace your Edge. Want a bit more context?

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