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043: Selling the Public Sector with Patri Founder Josh Ellars
SalesFounders - Startup Sales Strategy, Venture Capital, Entrepreneur, and Sales Development
English - January 02, 2018 11:00 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsCareers Business business entrepreneur startup entrepreneurship prematurescaling sales salesgap selling venturecapital Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 042: The Art of Customer Validation with Whitney Casey
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Throughout this season of SalesFounders we have covered a number of themes that seem to exemplify winning startups: Leveraging domain expertise, validated learning, mentorship, and strategic sales growth. Josh Ellars, founder of Patri, exemplifies all of them. In fact, his startup story is a case-study in how each of these components blend together to create a powerful growth trajectory. Josh believes that a founder needs critical feedback and an openness to adaptation. On this episode Josh explains how he has leveraged 10 years of public sector sales expertise, 10,000 linkedIn connections, a powerhouse advisory board and a lean methodology to bootstrap a solution that is will forever change the way companies sell to the public sector.
ON THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS: Challenges selling in the public sector Positioning your career around a niche Applying the lean startup methodology for feedback driven innovation Why LinkedIn is an ideal source for validation and leads Building an advisory board - How to surround yourself with the right team The pro's and con's of an automated sales process The challenges of running a consulting service and says company simultaneously Surrounding yourself with critical feedback and why you should never be married to your idea's