Startup Stories: Kickstart Your Sales – The Accelerator Network & Centre For Entrepreneurs
Join The Accelerator Network‘s Startup Stories, co-hosted with Centre For Entrepreneurs for our February edition, to hear from 2 of our communities’ alumni founders sharing their experience and practical tips on kickstarting sales for fellow entrepreneurs.
Every startup faces the challenge of getting the first customers, proving product market fit and gaining traction. We’ll be chatting with the founders of BlackCurve and Sideways 6 to hear how they tackled this critical need and built sales from the early days to growing and scaling.
You’ll hear about:
- Tackling first sales and hacks
- Navigating complexities of 2020 and takeaways to power sales strategy, team and execution
- Building B2B sales do’s and don’ts
You’ll hear from:
Philip Huthwaite, Founder and CEO of BlackCurve and Accelerator Academy alumni
BlackCurve helps retailers avoid pricing items too cheaply or too expensively, shift dead stock profitably, save time and increase their inventory. Their automated price testing increases profitability by 9% and achieves a 12% increase in revenue.
Will Read, Founder and CEO of Sideways 6 Accelerator Academy and Centre For Entrepreneurs alumni
Sideways 6 is a global scale-up based in London that helps to bring employee’s ideas to life at some of the world’s best companies. Their SaaS platform and expert consultancy helps give employees a voice and make innovation happen at companies like AstraZeneca, Vodafone, Nestle and British Airways.
In conversation with:
Amy Chao, Community & Engagement Manager for The Accelerator Network
Agenda:
5:30-5:50pm introduction and panel discussion
5:50-6:00pm Q&A for audience questions
Please register to receive your Zoom event link.
Event hosts:
The Accelerator Network empowers UK tech startups and scaleups through business growth and investment readiness support from pre-seed to Series A via our three stages of virtual programmes: FastForward Pre-Accelerator for pre-seed, Accelerator Academy for seed, and The ScaleUp Accelerator for Series A. We deliver Cyber 101 bootcamps in partnership with Digital Catapult supporting cybersecurity startups, and Investor Readiness Bootcamps for immersive businesses. Accelerator Academy Semester 29 programme applications open on 15th February.
Centre For Entrepreneurs (CFE) is the UK’s leading entrepreneurship foundation with the flagship programme NEF Fast Track, a one-year development scheme for aspiring young entrepreneurs. CFE also runs the Incubator and Accelerator Network and the Refugee Entrepreneurship Network – advocacy and best-practice groups that work to increase the quality and scale of support available for entrepreneurs.
