Brian Balfour (@bbalfour), of Reforge, and Long Journey Ventures, and Pascal Levy-Garboua (@2pasc) of Long Journey Ventures, join Erik on this episode.

They discuss:

- Common mistakes that early-stage companies make in their go-to-market strategy and how to avoid them.

- Advice on partnership strategies and go-to-market.

- Frameworks for who to hire and why.

- Misconceptions that founders have around loops.

- Advice for enterprise companies.

- Advice on building a business development function within the org.

- What the industry has learned about growth over the last several years.

- How community fits within growth.

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