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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

Both Sides of the Table

I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. Invariably your first efforts at product won’t quite hit the mark – and this is OK. In my journey to better understand the sales process, my management team and I developed a sales methodology.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

socalTECH

That was a really fast stint, we started with only a couple of small customers but ended up taking it to $120K MRR and sold it to Home Depot at a significant multiple above revenue. The reason why, is my experience is in early stage sales and more specifically, in early stage customer development. Amos Schwartzfarb: Very often.

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