Sales for Founders

Louis Nicholls

Learn to sell, find your first paying customers and grow a successful business. An interview series for (technical) founders who are fed up of building products nobody wants to buy... Your host, Louis Nicholls, interviews the best founders and salespeople out there. You'll learn how they found their first customers and grew massively successful businesses. With a focus on actionable insights from every area of sales.

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• Jeremy Thiessen

Most-covered episodes

• $150k in revenue with not even a landing page - Jeremy Thiessen Sales for Founders · 14 notes

Episodes

• $150k in revenue with not even a landing page - Jeremy Thiessen 14 notes · What Is the #1 Piece of Advice for a New Entrepreneur
• Getting a deal with Uber, and then another, and another with Daniel Zarick of Arrows notes coming
• Hey... Sales can be fun! Perspectives on Founder Sales with Ben Orenstein of Tuple notes coming
• Sales Chat #4 - Optimizing that first sales call notes coming
• Sales Chat #3: Brendan and Louis get into how to prepare for an important first sales call notes coming
• SaaS sales and the struggle to gain meaningful customer adoption with Joe Valenti, founder of BrokrBindr notes coming
• Sales chat #2: Why's a sales process so important? — with cohost Brendan McAdams notes coming
• Sales chat #1: Is sales sleazy? — with cohost Brendan McAdams notes coming
• Lessons from 20+ years of sales success — with Brendan McAdams, cofounder of Expertscape notes coming
• 3 ideas to build your own business that lasts - with Alex Hillman, author of The Tiny MBA notes coming
• Listener Questions #1 - Sales Mindset, Cold Outreach, Positioning and More! notes coming
• From struggling with first sales to a $2m ARR business - with Nick Davies, cofounder and CEO of Dentally notes coming
• Zero to 5-figure MRR in just a few months by doing outbound sales - with Frank Breckner, founder of Finalytic notes coming
• How to switch from outbound sales to inbound marketing - with Baird Hall, founder of Wavve and Zubtitle notes coming
• What founders can learn from a sales leader - with Kristen Habacht, Global Head of EDR Sales at Atlassian notes coming
• "I have my first few paying customers, now what?" - with Pat Walls, founder of Pigeon notes coming
• Turning a struggling startup into a $50k/month agency business - with Andrew Askins, cofounder and CEO of Krit.com notes coming
• Sales tips from a successful, full-time salesperson - with James Urie, Close.com notes coming
• What an early-stage founder needs to know about SEO and content marketing - with Nat Eliason, founder of Growth Machine notes coming
• How to turn customer conversations into a profitable product - with Rob Fitzpatrick, author of 'The Mom Test' notes coming
• How to write cold emails that get results! - with Laura Lopuch notes coming
• Live S4F Office Hours #1: Gabriel Perez from Peerfeedback.io notes coming
• Would a referral program work for your business? - with Manuel Frigerio of ReferralHero notes coming
• How to grow faster by doing things that don't scale - with Corey Haines of Baremetrics notes coming
• Bonus Episode: Why niching is a great way to start a bootstrapped business - with Tyler Tringas of Earnest Capital notes coming
• How to close 7-figure deals as a technical founder with no sales experience - with Stephanie Hurlburt of Binomial.info notes coming
• Taking a productised service from 0 to $10k MR in a few short months (plus, copywriting tips!) - with Dani Mancini of Scribly.io notes coming
• How to close your first deals and do follow-ups properly - with Mark Fershteyn of Recapped.io notes coming
• Bootstrapping to a 6-figure business by aligning yourself with the customer - with Lynne Tye of Key:Values notes coming