Heavybit Skill
Partnerships & Business Development
How to evaluate, prioritize, and build partnerships at early-stage startups: from co-marketing to deep integrations. Covers partner strategy, ecosystem timing, and navigating the tension between partnership opportunity and startup focus. Drawn from practitioners at Stripe, Segment, Zapier, and others.
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Partnerships & Business Development
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Built from the Heavybit Library
The operators behind this skill shared what they know in these talks, podcasts, and articles. Every one is free in the Heavybit Library.
- Article
How To Kickstart a Successful Channel Sales Program
MAR 10, 2021With Micah Smurthwaite and Wikings Machado
Next47 Partner and sales expert Micah Smurthwaite and Next47âs Director, Global GTM, Wikings Machado, share a guide to starting a successful channel sales program.
Article
How To Kickstart a Successful Channel Sales Program
Read8 MIN
- Video
Leveraging Your Enterprise Partnerships
JUL 21, 2016With Ed Blankenship
Microsoft Product Manager Ed Blankenship discusses how developer companies can dispel doubt in enterprise buyers, build a CIO-worthy value prop and reach the gatekeepers who determine whether a startup gets bundled into the sales cycle.
Video
Leveraging Your Enterprise Partnerships
Watch34 MIN