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Influence Meets Innovation: How Founders and Cultural Leaders Can Work Together

Andreessen Horowitz

Cultural leaders—athletes, entertainers, and executives—have evolved beyond mere financial backers to highly-engaged strategic partners and advisors for a company’s growth. For example, an executive may have a large and engaged following on LinkedIn but not be active on Instagram. Customers can smell inauthenticity a mile away.

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The 9 Worst Sales Mistakes Founders Should Avoid

Point Nine Land

We recently hosted the Point Nine Founders Summit, featuring several panels and presentations from founders, CFOs, COOs, and sales execs on building early sales teams and hiring your first successful sales leaders. Trying to Figure It All Out Yourself Without a Sherpa-Guide Okay, so you’re a technical or product founder.

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The (New) New ABCs of Selling — Alignment, Belief, and Consistency

Sales Hacker

For salespeople, this means feeling aligned with why they’re selling a product or service and authentically engaging with customers. Norbert Orlewicz, business and marketing consultant, trainer, and cofounder of MyLeadSystemPro, says: “Sales can be a calling when it is an extension of a deeper purpose.

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

An engaging speaker and innovative seminar leader, Joanne is changing the business of sales. An industry thought leader, she is often sought out to present at sales, leadership, and women’s conferences, symposiums, and events. Julie Hanson – Sales Presentation Expert | Author of Sales Presentation for Dummies.

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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!

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Lucidchart and Wrike — February 28, 2020

SaaStr

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. I started my training on the technical side, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or engineer, in particular, thinking I wanted to do research. He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school.

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SaaStr Podcast #358 with Tipalti Founder & CEO Chen Amit

SaaStr

To date, Chen has raised over $146M with Tipalti from the likes of Oren Zeev, Dan Rose, Mike Chalfen and then Greenspring, Truebridge and 01 Advisors to name a few. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. He also was co-founder and CEO of Verix.