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One of the Biggest Mistakes Enterprise Startups Make

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And of course the most successful technology companies: Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com [duh], Oracle, Microsoft all have loads of sales people. The most important way to sell a product for an early-stage business (or frankly any stage) is to have strong referenceable customers. How do you get referenceable customers?

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Interview with Damir Davidovic, NEOGOV

socalTECH

Currently, we have over a thousand customers, with customers ranging from anywhere from 100 employees to clients with more than a 100,000. Most of the top 100 cities and counties in the country are our customers, and twenty out of fifty states run all their recruiting and HR through our system.

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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

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Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. Whenever I heard why we didn’t feel a sales process at an important customer was going well (or if we lost) I would get involved myself. They are as good at selling you as they are at selling your product to customers.

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Improving Sales: The Excuse Departement is Closed

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Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. Whenever I heard why we didn’t feel a sales process at an important customer was going well (or if we lost) I would get involved myself. They are as good at selling you as they are at selling your product to customers. They’re in beta).

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ConTraps Part IV – Avoid Exclusion From Future Revenue Opportunities

InfoChachkie

As noted in Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid , exclusivity can kill a small company. Exclusivity excludes your startup from taking full advantage of future customer, partner and market opportunities. Market segments – like certain geographies, there may be groups of customers that are outside your primary target market(s).

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

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