Being a founder and a venture capitalist has been an invaluable experience. It provided me with insight into the mistakes that we, as founders, make while pitching.

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Sales at its essence is going beyond your comfort zone

One of the tried and true ways of getting business and creating real sustainable relationships.

1. Be comfortable with being uncomfortable

What are the different sales channels, how do we create them, and what is the payoff?

How to and the importance of organizing a sales call.

Consistent, effective activity with a purpose.

Setting up your calendar, properly, is the first step to success

What to do once you’re at the appointment

These are some suggested guidelines to make coffee meetings productive:

Couple Best Practices for Networking and Life

In the United States, 45% of businesses don’t make it past five years. 65% don’t make it past ten years. Yet everyone who ever starts a business backs themselves to beat the odds

Are you applying to jobs you're qualified for, but not hearing back from anyone? Do you feel like your friends are having an easier time in the job market than you are? If either of those questions applies to you, it's time to step back and develop a new game plan for your job searching. You may have grown up with some beliefs about finding the perfect job that may be outdated in this day and age. One of the biggest secrets to finding a job in 2020 is networking.

When I talk to women about restarting their careers after time focused on family, I emphasize the need for networking.

No matter what industry you're in, networking is critical to your success. The more people you know and form connections with, the more opportunities you will have in your career.

While the benefits of delegation may be clear, actually delegating is not always an easy thing to do.

What drives entrepreneurs to take the risks of starting new businesses? Motivations vary. However, money is rarely, if ever, the primary incentive.

YC CEO and Partner Michael Seibel shares his approach to building an MVP and getting your first users as a pre-launch startup.

How problems finding product market fit, listening to investors, copying startups around you, slow product development, and co-founder conflict kill startups.

When people ask me for tech career advice I find it helpful to lay out the three paths I’ve encountered most in my career: founder, executive, and employee. I’m leaving out investor because the best path to being an investor that I’ve seen starts with being successful (or failing) at one of these three first.

Konsus joined Y Combinator this spring in the W16 batch. We applied from Norway, where we had launched our company a few months earlier, and had good traction at 10% weekly growth.

We thought it might help us scale Y Combinator if we could distill the most generalizable parts of this advice into a sort of playbook we could give our companies. Then we thought we should just give it to everyone. This is meant for people new to the world of startups. Most of this will not be new to people who have read a lot of what YC partners have written—the goal is to get it into one place.

Each step-up in valuation requires pre-planning around sales and marketing investment being enough to hit required revenue targets

While many view entrepreneurship as a dream career full of excitement, it is a real rocky road.

5 Entrepreneurs Share Their Best Advice On Facing The New Landscape Of Business

Every stage of funding for a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones

SAFE stands for Simple Agreement for Future Equity. It was created by the team at Y Combinator and has been a popular method for investing at the earlier stage of a company.

There seem to be many founders who can’t launch because they don’t have the strong technical skills to build what they want to build and don’t know how to find a technical co-founder. So we wanted to offer some advice.