How To Start a Software Business (PureChat’s Hamid Shojaee)

While titles are easy, hear what this successful entrepreneur says is the key to growth

Entrepreneur Tips you’ll learn in this episode of The Sales Podcast…

• How to treat “version 1” of any launch, i.e. “The Startup Owner’s Manual”

• Whether or not to outsource your software development

• The success rate of software companies, and how to succeed with your own

• When to know the timing is right to start your own software company

• What Uber’s job really is

• When to white label and when to be an affiliate

• The role of traction and how to create it

• What you can and should outsource, and when

• When to know you can charge for your software

• The role of salespeople in a software firm

• When to raise money for your idea vs. bootstrapping it

• How to avoid being “all work and no play”

Links Mentioned

• Follow Hamid Shojaee on Twitter

• Start your free trial of live chat software with Pure Chat

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P.S. Check out this review of how I’ve used PureChat to convert more inbound leads to sales.