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Startup Sales – Why Hiring Seasoned Reps May Not Work

Startup Sales – Why Hiring Seasoned Reps May Not Work

By Mark Suster on October 12, 2010

A while back I wrote a bunch of posts on Sales & Marketing and have been meaning to get back to that theme for a while. Even if you don’t have “direct” sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale” including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development.  So I hope [...]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Business Development, marketing, sales, Salesmanship, Startup Advice, startups

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