founder-sales
Founder Sales
Scope
Covers
- Founder-led sales for early-stage products (typically pre-seed → Series A)
- Getting initial design partners / first customers (incl. first 10–30)
- Outbound + warm intro outreach design (not high-scale automation)
- Diagnostic discovery (problem-first; demo later)
- Decision enablement (your #1 competitor is often “no decision”)
- Closing-to-activation (white-glove onboarding to prevent “yes → silence”)
- Building a simple, repeatable learning loop (message → calls → iteration)
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