The Startup Chat with Steli and Hiten
527: Should Founders Be Doing Sales? Will Prospects Take Their Startups Serious?
In today’s episode of The Startup Chat, Steli and Hi...
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Nov 3 2020 1h 30m
Chapter 1 44 sec
About today’s topicChapter 2 1 min
Why this topic was chosenChapter 3 29 sec
How some founders are concerned about doing sales themselvesChapter 4 1 min
Why it’s better for founders to do sales themselvesChapter 5 24 sec
How Hiten does sales for his own startupChapter 6 22 sec
all these tasks, are they not beneath me? Will people not judge me if I sent them an email telling them I want to talk to them about my product, or sell it to them or whatever?& And so that kind of a thing drives me crazy, because it is an imposter syndrome problem, but it& also so& This is the type of thing where insecurities are really standing in our ways of success, and of doing the right thingsChapter 7 35 sec
How some founders’ let their insecurities get in the way of their successChapter 8 36 sec
How the customer wants you to solve their problemChapter 9 27 sec
How the customer mattersChapter 10 1 min
How people are thrilled to talk to foundersChapter 11 1 hr 22 mins
How Hiten and his cofounder get on sales calls together