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The 9 Worst Sales Mistakes Founders Should Avoid

Point Nine Land

At Point Nine, we aspire to continuously share what we learn with our community and the extended startup ecosystem. Sales is hard, especially in the early stages of a startup. You founded a startup to lead teams, grow your business, and embark on an extreme and hopefully glorious journey we all dream of. Which are you?

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Introducing Talent x Opportunity Spring ‘24 Cohort

Andreessen Horowitz

Like the startups in our portfolio, TxO is constantly evolving to ensure we’re meeting the needs of our founders. He leveraged these skills to fund his computer science studies at the University of Oklahoma, where he would eventually meet his cofounder, Sung Choi. Originally from South Korea, Sung moved to the U.S. Once in the U.S.,

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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

SaaStr

So even the freshest new SaaS startup celebrating their 50th customer may find themselves dealing with sales tax in multiple states. . The risk in failing to comply with one state’s sales tax laws is that you could be subject to an intense audit where the state’s auditor scours your books for every instance of uncollected sales tax. .

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Career Decisions: What To Look For In a Software Startup

Kellblog

So, you’re thinking of taking a job at a startup, but are nervous about the risk, perhaps having trouble telling one from another, and unsure about knowing what’s really important in startup success. Startups are about people. Great core/founding team. We live in a founder-friendly VC era. Clean cap table.

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

She is the co-author of a business book, called Aligned to Achieve , about sales and marketing alignment. She’s a sales leader with an accomplished background at several tech startups. Her book The Sales Development Playbook is an absolute must-read for everyone in the sales industry. Tonni Bennett – VP Sales at Terminus.

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How to Close the Enterprise When You’re Just a Startup (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

In it, Co-Founder and CRO of Kronologic, Aaron Bollinger, shows us how to close enterprise level deals when you’re a startup. All right guys, welcome to the Sales Hacker’s Success Summit presentation, How To Close The Enterprise When You Are Just A Startup. Could somebody come in and help with a technical conversation?

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!