Nate Williams is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Union Labs - an applied DeepTech seed fund focused on building and backing leading seed-stage startups in Climate, PropTech and Mobility.
Nate is a hands-on serial entrepreneur having previously played roles as an EIR at Kleiner Perkins, CRO & Head of Business at August Home, Inc. which became a leader in Smart Home Access, later acquired by Assa Abloy in 2017. He was also the CMO & Head of Business at Greenwave Systems and Senior Director of Marketing & Business Development at Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility.
Join Host Alex Shartsis in this episode as Nate shares about the different stages of sales in a startup's life, from day zero to a scalable product, and the importance of a team approach to sales efforts.
He shares his advice on creating a channel map to reach customers and markets, and talks about the risks of customer concentration. This channel mapping approach brought huge success when he was heading the business at August Home.
Nate also talks about the significance of the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) title and the shift in funding trends towards mitigating technical and go-to-market risks early on.
Show Notes:
0:00 Introduction
9:38 Startup Sales Stages: From Jungle to Highway
11:17 Team Approach to Sales: Beyond Founder-Led Selling
15:23 Channel Mapping: Strategic Market Reach
21:11 Early Client Engagement: Setting the Deal Clock
23:38 Customer Concentration Risks: Balancing Goals
35:13 Targeting Influential Profiles: Building Key Relationships
40:23 CRO Role: Signaling Structured Sales Growth
49:52 Funding Trends: Balancing Technical and Market Risks
Guest: Nate Williams (linkedin.com/in/nathandwilliams)
Host: Alex Shartsis (linkedin.com/in/shartsis)
Audio Engineer & Video Editor - James Fixx (fixxmusic.com)
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