Sales is hard. B2B sales is harder. Startups trying to launch enterprise sales have the hardest job of all. SalesDev.Global provides live sales coaching to help your portfolio meet customers and grow sales. If your portfolio companies are not working with enough customers, SalesDev.Global can walk them step-by-step through sales development. It’s like having a VP of Sales on-call.
SalesDev.Global can help your portfolio companies immediately to:
- Meet customers!
- Validate their ideas with users, so they build the product customers want
- Test their prototype or MVP, to avoid nasty surprises at launch
- Start selling!
Hear what startup founders say about SalesDev.Global coaching:
The Sales Coaching Plugin for Your Accelerator
Now your accelerator can provide your portfolio with live sales coaching, a complete sales and marketing curriculum plus community. Developed for Silicon Valley tech accelerators, this program lets you immediately offer:
- Private 6-week intensive coaching programs intensives for individual companies or the whole portfolio
- Extended quarterly and annual programs
- Invite your current mentors to participate
Do your startups meet enough customers?
Many B2B startups don’t talk with customers early enough. Founders want to have their product and story perfect before showing them to potential buyers. They postpone customer feedback, which is so crucial for early-stage startups.
The most successful B2B startups engage with customers as early as possible, so they can:
- Test their product concepts
- Start to build sales relationships
- Solve specific customer requirements
- Begin the sales process as soon as possible
SalesDev.Global will help your startups find and meet these critical early customers.

Find & meet customers
B2B startups may postpone meeting customers because it is so difficult just to find them. Working with customers requires different skills than software, hardware or other technical product development. Founding teams may not have anyone with sales experience.
SalesDev.Global will walk your startups through:
- Identifying the “watering holes” where customers gather
- Building outbound contact lists of qualified customers
- Making personal contact and building customer relationships
- Identifying the Pain they feel, and the Hot Buttons that will motivate them to buy your product quickly
- Proposing, negotiating and closing sales

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Is your portfolio testing MVPs?
Many startups don’t know how to design an MVP (minimum viable product) or how to test it with customers. SalesDev.Global will lead your companies through a proven process to identify what aspects of their technology need to be tested, design an MVP and recruit customers to provide feedback.
MVPs do not need to be expensive. We’ve helped startups hack hardware testable prototypes out of lawn mowers, videos and wearables they purchased on Amazon. Software startups can use wireframes and other prototyping tools to engage with customers and start the sales process.

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Meet Our Founding High-Tech Sales Coach
Since his first job as a hardware engineer in Silicon Valley over 30 years ago, Dave Millman has held sales and technical roles in startups across a wide variety of industries:
- Cloud computing, networking and wireless communications
- Semiconductors and semi manufacturing equipment
- CAD/CAM/CAE/EDA
- Enterprise, desktop and mobile software
Dave has helped hundreds of startups to understand their customers’ problems, identify the cost of that problem, and discover the Hot Buttons that motivate them to buy a solution. He can coach your startups from the start of their customer journey all the way to revenue.

Testimonials
“SalesDev.Global has the right approach. They teach founders how to get in front of customers to get that early opinion. When the product finally comes it will be the product that the customer wanted. It then becomes a lot easier to close the deal.
But it will still be hard!!”



SalesDev.Global has helped us with every aspect of reaching that market, from messaging to outbound campaigns that have opened the doors at major accounts. They even created a product video to use during the campaign. I’m happy to recommend them to any deep-technology company.”

Accelerator FAQ
What can our startups cover in coaching?
Most SalesDev.Global clients use their coaching time to plan and implement sales programs including:
- Identifying their target market
- Creating and running outbound campaigns
- Planning, creating and delivering demos, presentations, videos and webinars
- Planning and building their MVP and recruiting test customers
- Building relationships with early sales prospects
- Planning and running evaluations
- Proposing and closing sales
Your coach will work with you to identify your most important sales activities, plan them out and manage the project.
We already have sales mentors. How is this different?
Many established accelerators have a network of mentors. These mentors may not have the time for weekly live coaching, or have access to a full B2B sales curriculum. SalesDev.Global can incorporate your experts into the program so they can teach their areas of expertise. This provides your portfolio with the best of both worlds: your local experts plus our proven coaching and curriculum.
We brought in a sales trainer last year. How is this different?
Sales training is great, until it’s over. SalesDev.Global provides ongoing coaching to help your portfolio through every step of sales development.
If you have incorporated a specific sales methodology like Solution Selling or Challenger Selling into your program, you will find that SalesDev.Global integrates well and gives powerful insight into customer pain and requirements.
Our focus is Biotech / Energy / Robotics / AI / Medtech. Can you handle tech?
The founders and coaches at SalesDev.Global are engineers who have spent their careers selling tech in Silicon Valley. We’ve sold cloud infrastructure, SaaS, software, hardware, semiconductors, CAD/CAM/CAE, semi equipment, IoT and more.
B2B technology buyers look for these attributes from their solution providers:
- Clear understanding of the problem
- Credible and robust solution
- A complete solution, or a roadmap to get there
- Measurable ROI
SalesDev.Global will teach your portfolio how to demonstrate to customers that they have all four.
Some of our startups are based outside North America.
SalesDev.Global has taught startups in Asia, Europe and throughout North America.
What does it cost?
SalesDev.Global offers accelerators a variety of programs that start at six weeks of coaching for each startup in your portfolio. Please contact us for details.
What stage startups do you work with?
SalesDev.Global works with B2B tech startups starting from when they first conceptualize their idea, all the way through launching sales of their production product. If a startup would benefit from a part-time VP Sales with industry experience, they will benefit from SalesDev.Global.
Contact SalesDev.Global to get live sales coaching, on-demand training and a support community for your portfolio.