Pitching and Closing: Everything You Need to Know About Business Development, Partnerships, and Making Deals that Matter

  • 8h 23m 25s
  • Alex Taub, Ellen DaSilva
  • Brilliance Publishing
  • 2014

Pitching and Closing reveals how to master the specific skills that people in BD at today's startups need to succeed, including forging relationships, pitching a company's product, building network, sourcing deals, dealing with rejection, and closing large deals.

In this Audiobook

  • Chapter 1: What Is Business Development?
  • Chapter 2: Types of Business Development
  • Chapter 3: BD Team Structure
  • Chapter 4: Business Development Versus Sales
  • Chapter 5: Networking
  • Chapter 6: International BD
  • Chapter 7: Finding Your BD Mentor
  • Chapter 8: APIs and BD
  • Chapter 9: A Career in BD
  • Chapter 10: Digital Identity
  • Chapter 11: Understanding Other Companies
  • Chapter 12: Four Golden Rules of Partnerships
  • Chapter 13: Three Types of Partnerships
  • Chapter 14: Identifying the Right Person at the Partner Company
  • Chapter 15: Partner Feedback
  • Chapter 16: Doing a Deal Versus Doing the Best Deal
  • Chapter 17: Sincere Selling
  • Chapter 18: Vapor Sales
  • Chapter 19: Pipelines and Prepitch Execution
  • Chapter 20: Making the Pitch and Closing the Deal
  • Chapter 21: The Legality of Deal Making: Contracts and Beyond
  • Chapter 22: Launching Deals and Compounding Effects
  • Chapter 23: Keeping the Deal
  • Chapter 24: Introductions: Best Practices
  • Chapter 25: Reaching Out and Corresponding
  • Chapter 26: Following Up and Other Best Practices for Correspondence
  • Chapter 27: Persistence
  • Chapter 28: Rejection
  • Chapter 29: Being Helpful and Adding Value
  • Chapter 30: Feeling the Pulse of the Market
  • Chapter 31: The “Shiny Things” Disease
  • Chapter 32: Internal Communication
  • Chapter 33: Working with Big Companies
  • Chapter 34: Working with the Press
  • Chapter 35: “Launch Partner” Strategy
  • Chapter 36: Turning a Nice to Have into a Need to Have
  • Chapter 37: Introduction to War Stories
  • Chapter 38: Large-Company BD: Kristal Bergfield
  • Chapter 39: Entrepreneurship and BD: Scott Britton
  • Chapter 40: The Ultimate Connector: Charlie O'Donnell
  • Chapter 41: BD and the Legal World: Richard Bloom
  • Chapter 42: Trendsetter Partnerships: Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Chapter 43: From BD to Founder: Tristan Walker
  • Chapter 44: Day 1 Entrepreneur: Shaival Shah
  • Chapter 45: Dorm Room Deal Maker: Andrew N. Ferenci
  • Chapter 46: Sports, Private Jets, and Philanthropy: Jesse Itzler
  • Chapter 47: Music BD and International Relations: Zeeshan Zaidi
  • Chapter 48: Banking to BD: Nicole Cook
  • Chapter 49: BD and Sales: Eric Friedman
  • Chapter 50: Intern to VP: Erin Pettigrew
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