Category: How-To

AWS Startup Advocate Mark Birch concludes his Founder Sales Series with advice on how to put all his tips and tricks together to create a more effective sales strategy for your startup.

In the final post of the Founder Sales series, AWS Startup Advocate Mark Birch shares how to avoid the 11th hour close.

In part 11 of the Founder Sales Series, AWS Startup Advocate Mark Birch shares some of the more common sticking points and areas of caution when it comes to legal side of closing deals.

After you have had successful preliminary sales meetings, the next step is to build upon these initial meetings to develop internal support for your solution and ensure your efforts lead to a signed deal. AWS Startup Advocate Mark Birch walks through how to do so in part 9 of the Founder Sales series.

As a founder of a B2B startup struggling to book sales meetings, it is frustrating to experience getting ghosted. This is when all communication ceases between two parties. For salespeople, this is a common occurrence. AWS Startup Advocate Mark Mirch walks us through how to book more effective sales meetings in part 8 of the Founder Sales series.

For startup founders, the time is your biggest constraint. You are running a company, seeking capital, guiding product, hiring staff, and leading marketing and sales. If four out of five deals turn out to be duds and each deal take ten hours, you have lost a week of time. This is why rigorously qualifying your deals is so vitally important. You need to focus your time on finding the right customers. In part 7 of the Startup Founder Sales series, AWS Startup Advocate Mark Birch tells us how.

Tim Draper is perhaps one of the world’s foremost proponents of Bitcoin. “It’s an exciting time for us bitcoin-ers,” the Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Draper Associates founding partner recently told AWS Startups. “In five years, you’re going to try to pay in fiat currency at Starbucks and they’re going to laugh at you.” In addition […]

An AWS Solutions Architect walks through implementing an additional layer of authentication security for your EC2 instances by requiring two-factor authentication for administrators to use SSH to connect.