Posts in Start-up
How to Grow Your Startup

There is a lot out there: advice from founders and investors, stories of unicorns, tools and services that claim to guarantee success, ultimate tips and steps, … Starting, growing, and succeeding with a startup is complex and has a multitude of aspects.

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Business Development as a Solopreneur (part 2)

Sometimes they are flexible, maybe even adjusting to your availability. And there are what I would label “best practices” in Business Development for a fractional executive that, in the end, allow building a pipeline.

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Business Development as a Solopreneur (part 1)

The ratio between those two is a balancing act, one that does determine whether the solopreneur is successful and their practice survives. But is there an ideal ratio, an ideal amount of time to spend on Business Development?

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No Product Sells Itself

“I hate paying salespeople big bucks. My product will be designed so well that it sells itself.” As a sales leader and an entrepreneur, this is the last thing I want to hear because no product sells itself! If you disagree, I challenge you to name one.

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The Ultimate Checklist Before Your First Sales Hire

Imagine you are the founder, owner, or CEO of a young, ambitious company. You have developed a great new product. You have taken it to some potential clients. And some of those clients were so impressed by the product that they purchased from you.  You are now ready to go to market. 

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The Perfect Storm For Interim and Fractional Sales Leadership

The OECD defines a scaleup company as a company having an average annualized return of at least 20% in the past three years with at least ten employees at the beginning of the period.

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The Ultimate Guide to Pre-Selling

Presales is the entire process of successfully closing a sale of a product that does not yet exist. Like the infamous vaporware, for example, a software or hardware product that has been advertised but is not yet available, either because it is only a concept or because it is still being written, designed or produced.

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5 Signs Your Small Business Is In a High-Growth Phase And Needs a Fractional CFO

We’re talking about 5 signs your small business or start-up is in high-growth mode and how you can collaborate with a Fractional CFO to ease the pain.

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The Ultimate Checklist on Gig Executives

The terminology used to describe this type of engagement is sometimes confusing: contractor, interim, fractional, 1099, gig, on-demand, project-based, hired gun, virtual, third-party, temporary.

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