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Enterprise sales lessons: How I almost closed Google, Intuit & Oracle

Close.io

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 hustled hard, we pitched perfectly, the product concept was great, and high-level leadership loved it, not just at Google, but also at Intuit and Oracle. Oracle broke our heart.

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The Monday Morning Breakfast For Champions Podcast – Episode 44 – Christian Maurer

The Pipeline

Holding an Engineer’s Diploma from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (equal to an MS in Engineering), he started out with a corporate career with telecom equipment manufacturers where he held positions such as: Product Manager, Business Manager, Director of Corporate Strategic Planning and COO of a joint venture start-up company.

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GTM 79: Surviving and Thriving with Frugal, Gorilla GTM Against Giant Incumbents | Amit Pande

Sales Hacker

In a prior life, Amit also led product and UX teams at Yahoo and Oracle. Amit is a Stanford GSB alumnus and has served on its alumni board, and has also studied human-computer interaction and engineering at the University of Minnesota.

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Enterprise Sales Lessons: How I Almost Closed Google, Intuit & Oracle

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We were a tiny team—just myself as the founder and one engineer. 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.

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Social Selling Success Stories

Score More Sales

Jill, who was most recently with Oracle represented how to gain visibility for a company – first for Eloqua and then Oracle. She helped spearhead social selling at Oracle. Jill Rowley has often been one of the first names that comes up anytime a business wants to know if and how sales reps can champion an industry.

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What Is Business Process Management? (& the 7 Best Tools for It)

Hubspot Sales

Re-engineering. In those kinds of cases, a company might elect to completely overhaul and re-engineer the process in question. Oracle BPM Suite. Pricing: Contact Oracle for Pricing. Oracle's BPM resource has been around longer than most and is, in turn, a bit more refined and practical than a lot of its competition.

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PODCAST 77: Navigating the Pace and Pressure of Startup w/ Vikas Bhambri

Sales Hacker

Vikas is a well-respected sales leader in NYC and comes from a sales engineering and product background, with more than 20 years experience. We hear what makes a great entry point for sales and sales engineering and why having deep authentic technical product knowledge actually works in sales. What You’ll Learn. We’re on iTunes.

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