The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

Carolina Kung of Frontline Ventures on accelerating the learning curve of early-stage founders and CEOs

Episode outline

[01:12] Introducing Carolina

[03:10] The most common mistakes Carolina sees companies making across the portfolio and advice she gives her clients

[06:16] The process for European companies that wish to expand into the United States

[07:40] How Carolina prioritizes hiring and hiring patterns in the United States versus Europe

[10:00] Lessons from companies Carolina has seen succeed

[12:00] How European companies can expand into the US for the first time

[13:35] Playbooks that Carolina has seen to be effective over the portfolio

[15:44] The importance and benefits of maximizing peer-to-peer learning and networking

[18:11] How COVID-19 has changed engagement between Carolina and the founders and CEOs she serves

[20:05] What gets Carolina excited about the future


Connect with Carolina

LinkedIn

Twitter

The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

Episode Outline

[04:39] Mandy’s background

[07:16] Discovering that running a company, it's evident it's an emotional business.

[10:13] Take time to really take a step back and use data as your foundation.

[11:18] While that looks great in a spreadsheet, it doesn't work in real life because until you have a process that's documented and that you can measure, and that is getting consistent results.

[12:04] Think deeply what needs to happen to hit your goal and direction you’re going to, based on what you have so far, make some assumptions on conversion, what type of pipeline you need, how many new opportunities

[14:34] Consider how many demos there, do they need to have a week or how many discovery calls depending on what type of sales cycle they are, how many discovery calls?

[16:35] Where is our product actually fit right now? And how are we going to attack that?

[17:04] Figuring out how to hold people accountable and then the second part was how to implement that correctly with the team

[19:22] The way to break the sales process into the four main categories

[20:19] Why Mandy really loves mentoring people and leading a team in house


Mandy's inspirations

Mark Roberge

Jeremy Liew

Connect with Mandy

Mandy Cole

Twitter

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