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Selling is not a pushy act, it is about empathy

Sales has moved on from the dark art of attracting people to the one with honesty and goodwill. In this article, we talk about the importance of sales in building customer relationships and helping to create a pipeline. In some cases, sales also can be about recruiting beta customers to test early version of your product. In these circumstances, these beta customers sign up for a lower price but with the ability to contribute to product development to suit their needs.

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Money is like gasoline during a roadtrip!

This was a perspective I missed during our fundraising activities. How much is really enough for a startup during its fundraising stages? I’ll admit that we never knew the right answer- sometimes it felt too much. At other times, it felt like we weren’t asking enough. The question is – where do we draw a line and say – this is what we need for a certain stage of the startup?

Do not focus on numbers, focus on what you do best

This is a simple reminder from Cassey Ho, an entrepreneur, startup founder about focus on projections. Numbers are very exciting in a startup world, esp because you can see some quick changes. The results are often slow and painstaking, but just a reminder that it isn’t all about numbers.

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Don’t assume that borrowing lots of money can make your startup fly!

Don’t assume that borrowing lots of money can make your startup fly: We know that funding is one of the most common reasons why a startup fails. This quote however highlights that apart from funding, there are several other challenges that a founder should navigate through. Funding is only a part of the problem solved. It gives you an opportunity to expand, but you ought to reach some requirements such as product market fit, customer agreements etc to make this viable.

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The critical ingredient in a startup is getting off your butt!

Though it sounds a bit crass, the quote makes an important point about taking swift decisions in a startup. We always get caught up between strategy and acting fast. In most cases, it is also called being tactical. For a startup, both strategy and tactics go hand in hand. We are forced to take some decisions quickly and have little time to strategise about its wider impact. One may even argue that strategy is a challenge with a scale up rather than early stages of startup.

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Ideas are like rabbits, you just need a couple of them!

Ideas are like rabbits: A startup is much more than an idea. Most literature tends to either romanticise the idea or grit of an entrepreneur. What if I told you that the truth was somewhere in the middle? I believe that the beauty of startups is in a great execution of an idea. The idea