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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Enterprise sales can be a treacherous territory if you’re an inexperienced startup founder. It was mid 2007. We were a tiny team—just myself as the founder and one engineer. I want to have engineers around the world teach each other.”. We didn’t know about enterprise sales. Oracle broke our heart.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Enterprise sales can be a treacherous territory if you’re an inexperienced startup founder. Here’s the story of how it made my first startup go belly-up.From B2C to B2B It was mid 2007. We were a tiny team—just myself as the founder and one engineer.

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Founded in 1998, they IPO’d in 2007 and were ultimately acquired by Oracle for $9.3B Second, Oracle had doubled down on college hiring and third, we had two senior sales leaders who were begging for the outbound model. We started the BDR team to “build” ERP sales reps. I couldn’t hire managers or reps fast enough.

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SalesforLife

MAY 13, 2019

The stats are in and it’s clear that B2B buyers have changed the way they do business in this rapid change but have you or your sales team adapted to this constant change? In the early 2000s I worked at Dun & Bradstreet, selling sales and marketing databases. My evolution since 2000 looked like this.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Aside from the areas outlined below, you need to hire or train sales reps who are capable of selling at an Enterprise level. That’s five or more months of ramp, and likely a whole year of burning cash to get the new sales team ready. In 2007 I sold a $600K ARR deal to a Telco on a 3-year contract, with two year’s cash up front.

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