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Interview: Paige Craig, CEO BetterWorks

InfoChachkie

4) What lessons from launching the Lincoln Group in Baghdad in 2005 are transferable to today’s LA startup scene? 3) I’ve heard some great stories about your weekend sales “boot camps.” We hired people who did not have outside sales experience. Smaller businesses gravitate to the cost savings.”.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates. Tech support is sales. they have purchasing intent ).*. But the rates are high for a reason.

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Interview with Richard Sussman, NordicEye

socalTECH

Instead, what we really did, which was instrumental to achieve this type of exit, quickly, is within one month of investment we had opened up a third party sales organization for them in Europe. In Europe, over fifty percent of all the unicorns that have come out of Europe since 2005 have come from the Nordics.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 Think DropBox, Airbnb, Uber, Maker Studios.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

Both Sides of the Table

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

Both Sides of the Table

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies. Why Buy Me?

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Maximize Your Exit By Not Selling Your Company

InfoChachkie

My House Is Not For Sale. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. Open up a “sales process” and solicit bids from multiple companies. Doing nothing was the most realistic and potent competition faced by Citrix. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. Do Nothing.

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