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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

socalTECH

We ended up merging those two companies together and I took over client services for Business.com, around the time Benchmark invested in us, and we ended up selling that company to R.H. I didn't really set out to write a book. In fact, I sort of profess, your sales hire should not be a sales hire, but a customer development hire.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Metrics availability. 0160; If I need $250,000 to get to 100 customers, or $1 million to get to X, and I can raise both amounts from either Angels or VCs, where do we turn? At some point it will be quite obvious whether the super angels’ investments and strategy succeed or fail. Customer Development Diagnostics over Lunch.

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