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Why Your Sales Hire Isn’t Working

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Customer Success is Sales. And Sales is Customer Success.

Wikings Machado and Dominique Levin Read
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Rethinking Product-Market Fit in the AI Age

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To Plan or Not to Plan-What Every Founder Needs to Know

Lak Ananth and William Smith

You’re starting to make hires and spend some of the seed money you raised. At this point, you start wondering: Should I create an operating plan?

Partnering with Vitally
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Now More Than Ever, World-Class Customer Success is a Competitive Advantage: Our Investment in Vitally

T.J. Rylander

As the macro economy entered a more challenging period in 2022, we at Next47 started to see a key strategic shift across the B2B ecosystem — custome...

Partnering with Locus Robotics
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The Focus at Locus — Helping Warehouses Move at The Speed of E-Commerce

Next47

The world wants things quick. As our e-commerce demands explode and supply chains are stretched to the limit, warehouses are under all-time operationa...

Partnering with Tiger Eye
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Investing in The Future of Sales with Tiger Eye

Next47

In November 2019, my friend Kent Ho introduced me to one of my idols — Tracy Young, the founding CEO of PlanGrid (a construction productivity softwa...

Partnering with Tractian
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Tuning in to the Language of Machines — TRACTIAN’s Vision for Transforming Industrial Maintenance

Next47

Machines can talk. In their unique mixed language of vibration, temperature and electrical signals, motors, compressors, pumps, and gearboxes can reve...

Not all money is created equal
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Not all Money is Created Equal: A VC’s Advice for Founders

Lak Ananth

This article was originally published in TechCrunch. Historically, the main actors in venture capital have been a specialized set of tech investors wh...

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8 Disappointing Investor Archetypes: How Founders Can Stop Falling for Them

Lak Ananth

This article was originally published in TechCrunch. I recently wrote a piece discussing how all capital is not created equal and we are living in a p...

PLAYBOOKS

Enterprise Founders Playbook: Seed to Series A

Trying to figure out what’s next in your enterprise startup’s journey? In this series, we explore the common questions enterprise founders have at the early stage and what can make the difference between success and failure as you move from Seed to Series A.

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Enterprise Sales Playbook: Unlock Your Market Potential

Ensure your go-to-market strategy aligns with the latest industry knowledge with our Enterprise Sales Playbook. Written by the Next47 team, sales experts, and founders, this series covers what you need to know to scale your business effectively.

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Enterprise Talent Playbook: Expand Beyond Your Network and Know-How

Discover how founders can attract and retain world-class talent with our Enterprise Talent Playbook.

Playbooks

Anticipate Failure

Transform setbacks into stepping stones in Lak Ananth’s Anticipate Failure series, based on his book by the same name. In a world where innovation requires risk, learn how to turn failures into catalysts for success.

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