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1. If you're serious about sales, you can't go past Salesforce. Pipedrive, Base, Sage and any others are all good, but you'll eventually grow out of them. In my view, you may as we…

Spot on. It really does help in all aspects of company-building, and like you say - it's not an extremely steep learning curve, the basics will take you a fair way.

I think sales is a skill that mystifies plenty of HN'ers, and engineers in general. Learning to become a better salesperson is the best "growth hack" for your company. You'll need …

Cool that this got picked up :) Would love hear what others think.

Quite a cool idea!

Spot on.

I won't lie - I'm not 100% certain that this can be a massive business - BUT no one can deny that it brings value to early stage products/co's and will definitely bring value to th…

So, to get a little but off the whole deck/fundraising thing - but how do you compare yourselves to say, Fitocracy. I just started using Fitocracy, and am really enjoying it so far…

Promising - I think it fits a nice gap. I never really know how/where to voice my opinions on current affairs etc, so would look forward to this.

I'm sorry, but I find this attitude really bizarre. You seem to confuse marketing with advertising, and even then it still feels bizarre. How are people meant to discover products,…

We're in the extremely early stages our our B2B SaaS business - and cold calling has been extremely effective so far. We've gotten great feedback and battle-tested our hypothesis o…