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How To Build A Great Pitch Deck
Product
 | 3 min read

How To Build A Great Pitch Deck

Are you thinking of joining us at Pitch for $1 Million? A good slide deck can take weeks, or even months, to prepare and you …

How to ‘bake’ a Repeatable Sales Process
Sales & Marketing
 | 5 min read

How to ‘bake’ a Repeatable Sales Process

The key to success in sales is creating a repeatable process that you and your reps are able to consistently perform each and every day.So, how do you go out and build this magic process?

Sales & Marketing

Top 5 Resources for Growth Marketing

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StartCon Is Back – Takeaways From Last Year’s Conference
News & Events
 | 6 min read

StartCon Is Back – Takeaways From Last Year’s Conference

StartCon 2016 was my first time at the conference and I walked away with a number of actionable insights and lessons that I want to reflect on today. Many of these lessons had a direct impact on the actions I took when I founded my own startup, Task Pigeon, less than a month later.

There is no better time to be an entrepreneur: Twilio’s Patrick Malatack
Leadership & People
 | 4 min read

There is no better time to be an entrepreneur: Twilio’s Patrick Malatack

Twilio’s product manager Patrick Malatack says there is no better time to be an entrepreneur than right now. The cost of failure is cheap, and that means new ideas, creativity, and new businesses are hitting the market with a never-seen-before pace.

Nate Moch on Tech in Real Estate, Leadership, and PR Opportunities in Failure
Leadership & People
 | 4 min read

Nate Moch on Tech in Real Estate, Leadership, and PR Opportunities in Failure

When StartCon 2016 headline speaker Nate Moch was recruited to Zillow from his software development job at Microsoft in 2006, he was put in charge of creating a stress and performance testing group to help launch the website...