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📓 Your sales playbook is a key part of your startup’s growth. It will evolve as you scale, but ensuring your core tenants are established early on will set you up for success. Check out Next47’s Enterprise Sales Playbook to start building your playbook today: bit.ly/3UeK5ij

🎉 Congrats to team Skydio!

🚀 How can founders go from Seed to Series A? In the Next47 Seed to Series A Playbook, Lak Ananth and William Smith answer common questions enterprise founders face and explore what separates success from failure. Learn how to tackle early-stage decisions that can make or break your business here: bit.ly/49I1C8S

🤝  Are you an early-stage founder building your team? Our upcoming People & Talent event is just what you need to get started and avoid costly mistakes. Join HR experts, industry leaders, & VCs as they share their knowledge on building successful teams, navigating common pitfalls, and preparing for growth. You’ll hear from our amazing speakers:  Ryan Bettencourt, SVP of Global Channel Sales, Verkada Gail Boddy, CHRO, Yellowbrick Data Steven Dunston, CRO, Stack Moxie David Francis, VP of Research & Product, Talent Tech Labs Robert Mishev, Partner, The Cole Group Sreedhar Sambangi, Director of Engineering, Skylo Filip Vrnoga, Head of People, Oliv AI Matthew Cowan, General Partner, Next47 Jonathan Barek, COO, Next47 Vanessa Camozzi, Director of Talent, Next47 📅 Wednesday, October 9  📍Next47 Palo Alto Office Request a spot here [space is limited!]: https://lnkd.in/gce8gGey

🔍 Examining your startup for small failures can be sobering, but it’s necessary at every stage of growth. In Next47 Global Managing Partner Lak Ananth’s Anticipate Failure series, he guides founders through the steps of navigating and overcoming failures, big and small. The full walkthrough can be found here: bit.ly/4cnNkvX

Who isn’t talking about building and hiring in AI? Last week, Next47 brought together 17 AI founders, our Head of Talent, Vanessa, and Head of Startups at OpenAI, Marc, for a wonderful dinner in the bay area. We spent the evening discussing AI adoption curves across verticals (hardware, simulation, and construction) and the infrastructure layer (compute, storage, and ETL) enabling new products in these very verticals. Great food and vibes all around. Thank you to everyone who joined me, Matthew, Vivian, and Vanessa! We are hosting another event on startup hiring in October with an incredible set of speakers. DM me if you would like an invite

🎉 We have officially opened our London office! Last week, we kicked off a new season and a new beginning in Marylebone—it was truly an evening to remember. We were thrilled to welcome so many of you to our new space and celebrate the thriving London startup ecosystem. Thank you to all who came out to celebrate this milestone with us. Here’s to many more moments that bring together our London community! 🥂 CC: T.J. Rylander, Lak Ananth, Jonathan Barek, Gaurav Kotak, Kate Reznykova 🇺🇦

🤝  The right sales partners can alter the trajectory of your revenue journey. Learn how to identify the right sales partners for your startup in Next47’s Enterprise Sales Playbook: bit.ly/49z6w81 CC: Wikings Marcelo Machado

Incredible night hosting dinner for 17 of our favorite AI founders on the day OpenAI released o1! ( special thanks to Marc Manara from OpenAI for sharing the latest and greatest on 🍓 ) Inspiring to see founders building in all kinds of verticals: construction, freight, hardware design, chip design, bookkeeping, and more, alongside infra AI founders building the rails for ingesting/understanding unstructured data or accessing GPU compute. Excited to do more of these -> DM me if you'd like to come to the next one! Next47 Matthew Cowan Richard Lui Vanessa Camozzi

🧑💼 Building your startup’s initial team needs to be an intentional process. If rushed, it can break team dynamics and set back your growth. Next47 Director of Talent Vanessa Camozzi shares the 3 steps founders should take before starting their hiring process at the link below. 🔗: bit.ly/49i81XO