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Alok Nandan of Emergent Ventures on the importance of identifying buyer pain in B2B SaaS

In this episode, Elias Rubel is joined by Alok Nandan, General Partner at Emergent Ventures founding partner at Akra Venture Labs, a fundraising pitch tool for Founders. Alok shares his thoughts on giving VCs a more complete picture of your company, getting the meeting, and making it count.

Episode Outline

[04:39] How Salesforce is applying AI and data science in their products

[07:16] Alok’s journey into independent consulting and helping early-stage founders

[11:13] How to bet on founders and help them succeed

[12:04] Steps in domain expertise and identify the pain point of the buyer

[14:34] The process of getting prospects through the funnel

[16:35] Lessons from the school of hard knocks

[19:22] The importance of a peer group of folks who are on a similar journey

Alok’s Inspirations:

Ankur Jain

Contact Alok

AngelList

LinkedIn

Twitter

Episode Outline

[04:39] Jen’s background

[07:16] What is takes to be able to developed and executed inbound lead generation and content marketing strategy

[10:13] The ability to supporting a channel of referral, reseller, co-branded, and white-labeled partners

[11:18] Why great communication leads to great partnership

[12:04] Methods in developing and executing an inbound demand generation strategy, raising brand and market awareness

[14:34] Habits to be great at sales and marketing that can never go wrong

[16:35] How to embrace a more diverse set of perspectives at the decision making table

[17:04] How Jen sees the trends in the future

[19:22] Use empirical evidence to decide what, what the best option is moving forward

[23:17] How to ensure there is right technical architecture, technical infrastructure to support these efforts

[26:28] The skills to know what the buying process is on their end


Jen's inspirations:

Trish Bertuzzi


Connect with Jen

LinkedIn

Twitter

SmartBug Blog

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