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Ulysses David, the former Global VP, Global Strategy / GM, India at Dataiku joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "Leveraging India To Scale Adoption & Growth.'

Leslie Brand, the former Senior Director of Corporate Marketing at Alation, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "Building Your Customer Advisory Board."

This week we had Derek Draper, SVP of Sales at Juniper Square join the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss how he thinks about setting up an effective sales framework.

Topics include:


Breaking down your pipeline by volume, velocity, and conversion
What metrics matter, and what steps can you take once you identify a weak area?
Prospsect Personas: How to make sure you're speaking the right language to the right personWhy he made the jump from investor to founding and building a company.
Common traps to look out for to avoid "happy ears

Links to mentioned articles:

https://review.firstround.com/this-sales-plan-moves-the-needle-on-every-success-metric

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ASbwkr3lzrAT8m8oSfzrQbfm9XmDseDMs-xKgIbWTxY/edit

Baxter Lanius, Founder and CEO of Alternative, shares his experience around building a sustainable, profitability focused startup. We discuss 1) the difference in a Private Equity vs Venture Capital mindset, 2) strategies for fundraising and scaling in a bear market 3) why he made the jump from investor to founding and building a company.

Krishan Patel, VP of Product of Apollo, shares his experience around building a product-led growth engine and discuss 1) how he shifted his career from sales to product, 2) how and why to shift a sales-led org to a product-led one (and how Apollo did it) and 3) what about your company and product needs to be right to know if you should lean into PLG or not?

Ian Andrews, CMO of Chainalysis, joins to share his experience as a buyer from organizations like Chainalysis, Pivotal, Teradata, and Opsware. 

Topics include:

1) What separates a good email from one that gets instantly deleted?

2) How to do effective research on your prospect before reaching out.

3) What should you know about the company before your first conversation?

4) Why coming into a meeting with a hypothesis is better than a blank page.

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