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by SteliE 14y ago
I don't know for sure but my feeling is that showing that you're the type of founders that will make things happen is much more important than having a stellar background. Many YC founders are very young and don't have a killer background y
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by SteliE 14y ago
Thanks for posting :) Let me know if you guys have any questions about the YC interview!
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Fine-Tune Your Outbound Sales Formula To Help Save Your Startup(techcrunch.com)
17 points by SteliE 14y ago|3 comments
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Elastic Hiring Junior & Senior Hustlers
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Overcome These Challenges When Selling To Startups(techcrunch.com)
22 points by SteliE 14y ago|0 comments
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Changing How We Sell Things, To Make Companies More Successful (Elastic, YC W11)(fastcoexist.com)
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by SteliE 14y ago
Would love to hear any sales mistakes you've seen startups make!
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The 10 Deadly Sales Sins Committed by Startups(elasticsales.com)
34 points by SteliE 14y ago|3 comments
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by SteliE 14y ago
Hey! Thanks for the feedback. My level of happiness went up WAY before the funding event happened and is much more a result of my lifestyle changes and improvements in balance, clarity & focus then the other way around :) The examples I
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Webinar: How to Close Your 1st Customer(elasticsales.com)
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by SteliE 14y ago
Virool is freaking AWESOME! Use it if you have a video and want your target audience to see it asap :)
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by SteliE 14y ago
Thanks sir! :) Appreciate the kind words & wishes!
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by SteliE 14y ago
I have experienced happiness much more as a personal choice than a byproduct of living. Your living creates certain external circumstances that can lead to happiness or depression. Often it really doesn't matter what the external result is
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by SteliE 14y ago
Thanks! :) Unfortunately I can't publicly tell that part of the story yet. But ping me at steli@elasticsales.com if you really wanna know ;)
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by SteliE 14y ago
Appreciate the kind words :) Happy you liked it!
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My TEDx Talk about Entrepreneurial Depression / Happiness(elasticsales.com)
150 points by SteliE 14y ago|27 comments
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by SteliE 14y ago
awesome! will do gleb :)
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by SteliE 14y ago
Appreciate the feedback. Will make some edits to the post :) And I'll ping you to meet up sometime soon!
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by SteliE 14y ago
I actually have and think Salesforce is a great CRM solution. But that's not the point of this piece. The core argument is that CRMs are not sales software and not the right interface for sales reps as core user group. If you look at the UI
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CRMs Are Not Sales Software (elasticsales.com)
29 points by SteliE 14y ago|15 comments
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Elastic is Hiring Engineers + Come by and grab a drink tomorrow night!
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Investors turn entrepreneurs into insecure little teenagers(elasticsales.com)
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by SteliE 14y ago
Sure :) We're not resellers. You can use dedicated sales resources on Elastic that exclusively sell your product and we have a track record at succeeding at this. Ping me at steli at elasticsales.com and we can chat more!
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by SteliE 14y ago
Companies use our service for the same reason companies use Amazon's AWS (even competitors like Netflix). If sales is not your core competency you probably want to work with us :)
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by SteliE 14y ago
That's a fair point. To be honest right now we have more demand than we can handle so we haven't really optimized the website for that. It's more of a recruiting tool for hires :) Definitely plan to improve on it though!
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by SteliE 14y ago
Right now we solve conflict of interests by not working with competitive customers in the exact same space. There are long term solutions for this. Regarding contacts - yes you keep all of them :) We use contracts and processes that make it
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by SteliE 14y ago
Good questions :) 1) Yes we pick the companies we work with :) 2) No. But it has a strong performance component so we only really make money when we perform 3) Not often 4) Potentially :)
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Elastic is Looking for Pragmatic Python Programmers & Front End Developers
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Prove to the Valley that you can be a founder
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Founder Internship with Palo Alto Based Startup
1 points by SteliE 15y ago

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