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  • Y Combinator Group Partner, Pete Koomen, led his startup, Optimizely, to $100M ARR. In this video, Pete breaks down the enterprise sales funnel and shares his top tips on how a technical founder can start closing real deals for their startup.
    Apply to Y Combinator: yc.link/SUS-apply
    Work at a startup: yc.link/SUS-jobs
    Chapters (Powered by bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
    00:00 - Intro
    03:29 - Prospecting
    05:15 - Outreach
    10:09 - Qualification
    15:00 - Pricing
    18:13 - Closing
    18:58 - Avoid surprises in procurement process
    20:02 - Implement
    22:01 - Outro
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  • @chapterme
    @chapterme 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

    Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) -
    00:00 - Intro: Sales process tips for founders
    03:29 - Prospecting for potential customers
    03:48 - Sales hypothesis and prospecting tips
    05:15 - Outreach: List of leads for sales outreach
    05:30 - Cold outreach vs inbound demand
    06:30 - LinkedIn leads, cold emails, effective approach
    06:59 - Cold emails waste time, encourage bad customers
    08:21 - Founders waste time trying to sell products to startups
    08:47 - Example: Building productivity software without coordinating with teams
    10:09 - Qualify & Follow-up: Sales funnel mistakes ask questions, avoid adversarial approach
    12:01 - Prospect doesn't care about problem, but offers solution
    12:37 - Product Demo: Don't show off product, solve audiences' problem
    13:42 - Demos have flow, magic moments
    14:35 - Demo-friendly, cost-effective pricing tips
    15:00 - Pricing: Advice for startups wait, ask questions, experiment
    15:53 - Experiments, pricing flexibility, and surprise
    16:44 - High prices lead to sales success
    17:25 - Price negotiation tips for first-time salespeople
    18:13 - Closing is not a single conversation
    18:58 - Avoid surprises in procurement process
    20:02 - Implement
    21:40 - Roadmap for sales funnel success
    22:01 - Outro

  • @jayesh_khanna
    @jayesh_khanna 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +50

    I was watching this insightful video, and it got deleted halfway through! Was eagerly waiting for the reupload, thankss!!!

  • @benjaminfranklin9074
    @benjaminfranklin9074 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +58

    This is by far the best YC video

    • @Marco-wz8xw
      @Marco-wz8xw 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The competing videos are also amazing, but this one is truly awesome.

  • @igorstjepanovic6953
    @igorstjepanovic6953 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    This video is pure gold. 100% correct based on my own experience as a founder. Bookmark this video folks, and watch it at least once a month!

    • @badsanta01
      @badsanta01 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Are you hiring ?

  • @khairm
    @khairm 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    Advice this specific and tactical is gold especially with the reasoning behind it

  • @samgeorge675
    @samgeorge675 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Pete is absolutely right! There is demand for this information. For early stage startups dealing with top-down enterprise sales, this info is golden.

  • @samgeorge675
    @samgeorge675 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    If folks are contemplating with cold emails like me, Pete said it right. If you are not gonna be excited reading the email you are sending, then your prospect won't either. I just needed to hear this to trust my intuition. Mass email campaigns are perhaps not for early stage enterprise sales.

  • @susan908
    @susan908 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This is incredbly good! I hope Mr. Koomen does more videos. There are too many "how to sell" videos for start-ups that just yammer on about all the stupid things founders do, instead of telling the viewer what is the right thing to do and why

  • @Marco-wz8xw
    @Marco-wz8xw 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    ABSOLUTELY great content! A must watch for a whole sales team! I’ll certainly come back to it many times until I have memorized it, haha. Thank you for sharing! 🎉

  • @gedossman
    @gedossman 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Great video!
    Especially on the importance of implementation stage!
    at Interf, our initial idea was to build an AI adoption agent to help vendors with the implementation stage - still believe it's a good problem to solve!

  • @codewithfongoh
    @codewithfongoh 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I was watching this and it was deleted, I almost lost my mind. Thank God its back. Thank you YC

  • @viktorfromsales
    @viktorfromsales 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great job breaking down the fundamentals of founder-led sales 👏🏻 overlaps a lot with what we cover with founders we mentor

  • @hirosyee
    @hirosyee 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wow, this is absolutely amazing! I'm incredibly excited and can't wait for more detailed videos on each topic.

  • @user-gp1qn9ut7n
    @user-gp1qn9ut7n 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    I needed this video thank you YC

  • @productfeedback
    @productfeedback 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    Can confirm this with 15 years of experience, ask the right questions

  • @NathanRomeiro-Nzero
    @NathanRomeiro-Nzero 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Great video!!
    Fundamentals were very clear. Now its time to act on it!!!

  • @samirnamani3329
    @samirnamani3329 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is the most valuable video I ever saw about sales!

  • @ThePrasanna_
    @ThePrasanna_ 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video YC. After a long six months on startup school series.

  • @AbhishekPatel-si7uq
    @AbhishekPatel-si7uq 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Yes. This is helpful. Applicable right now and we are going to meet to take action following this immediately.

  • @moralespanitz
    @moralespanitz 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The YC video I've been waiting for a long time

  • @skarbe_ai
    @skarbe_ai 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Amazing video, it took us many month of trial and error to get here!

  • @Nadyusa
    @Nadyusa 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Agree the most useful thing I’ve seen so far. And I reckon the strategy can be applied for landing a high profile job as well ;)

  • @hustlin_heev
    @hustlin_heev 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This was a great video, I really enjoyed watching it.
    If you have a product where the person experiencing the problem everyday and searching for a solution is a lower level employee who must have approval from the higher ups to purchase new software, do you do cold outreach to them or to their higher ups?

  • @inglam
    @inglam 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The best YC video ever

  • @matiasarmani7893
    @matiasarmani7893 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    WOW, pure gold 100%. Just thanks!

  • @saullotzof
    @saullotzof 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Brilliant, brilliant video. Thank you!

  • @arpitsingh4937
    @arpitsingh4937 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Is there any yc audience group? Or can we create one? Imagine all people watching this in a community. Because of yc s wisdom amazing products and programs can emerge. Looking forward

    • @sarimae9655
      @sarimae9655 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I agree. You can start one, would be happy to join 👍🏽

  • @thetoolist
    @thetoolist 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for publishing it again, its a really interesting video !

  • @samyogdhital
    @samyogdhital 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Loved it thanks!

  • @insertacoin738
    @insertacoin738 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    this is absolutely fantastic

  • @ba8e
    @ba8e 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    AMAZING! Thank you.

  • @MichaelChenAdventures
    @MichaelChenAdventures 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Pete this is fantastic thank you!

  • @hankyuljang9184
    @hankyuljang9184 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Awesome video!

  • @mrjohncrumpton
    @mrjohncrumpton 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Excellent, thank you.

  • @AndreyViktorov-b7y
    @AndreyViktorov-b7y 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Viery powerful. Thankyou!

  • @danielterrero7956
    @danielterrero7956 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    top video, amazing amount of value

  • @machapuis
    @machapuis 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is gold

  • @george_davituri
    @george_davituri 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for sharing

  • @user-pe3mt1td6y
    @user-pe3mt1td6y 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Super video.

  • @sugulper
    @sugulper 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Gold!!

  • @ItayHilel
    @ItayHilel 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    more like this!

  • @zoravursingh5617
    @zoravursingh5617 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    they're re-releasing this like a pre-product market fit startup

  • @JadVillanueva
    @JadVillanueva 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Please do more startup school videos 🙏🙏🙏

    • @ycombinator
      @ycombinator  19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      More on the way!

  • @Lee1212
    @Lee1212 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Link to free Founding Sales book?

  • @bakkadavid
    @bakkadavid 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Can you share any books on this?

    • @inquery-data
      @inquery-data 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Founding Sales by Peter Kazanjy !

  • @CreativeDm9
    @CreativeDm9 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Is Founding Sales free onilne? Can anyone point me to the pdf / site?

  • @shivphysio
    @shivphysio 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Hello

  • @elliottbailey2522
    @elliottbailey2522 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    @0:46 whup! time to go.there goes the corny side view angle

  • @mrprao3
    @mrprao3 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    For a sec I thought it was Robin Sharma😅

  • @BauAnalyse
    @BauAnalyse 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    why is it so out of sync?!