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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

Both Sides of the Table

Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. 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. question in sales. This is a very important to do when you first start a company.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

In case you were out of town for the weekend, BetterWorks and Coloft of Santa Monica put together an amazing and area stimulating HackFest ( #hackfest ) on August 14th. Just shows to the growth in the Santa Monica area with people like the CoLoft helping to fuel the ecosystem.&#.

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LeanLA Presents: Beware of False Prophets

Tech Zulu Event

This particular evening, we attended the LeanLA meet-up located at Coloft, a swank professional co-op/work space in the heart of Santa Monica, known as the epicenter of the LA startup scene. He went on to explain a bit about the customer development model from Blanks: State business model assumptions.

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

Tech Zulu Event

This past SWLA (February 24-26) was like non other and the 5th event to take place at Coloft here in Santa Monica. All attendees really did such an amazing job building out their products, talking to customers and putting on a great show of presentations. Coffee is for closers!” What a SWLA.

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