Ep. 155: Building Your Startup’s Minimal Viable Business Motion & Saying No to Disney – A Conversation with Bocar Dia, Managing Director at Forum Ventures

Bocar is a thought leader within the GTM landscape, being a Sales Coach at the Harvard Business School, revenue.fyi, and scalingto100.com. He was an early employee at Hootsuite, starting as a sales rep, pre-revenue, leading multiple GTM teams throughout its growth to $150M+ ARR, 1500+ employees and ~$300M in funding. Since then, his roles have been to consistently build out new revenue growth engines from the ground up. As Managing Director at Forum Ventures, Bocar supports early-stage founders in establishing their target customers, gaining rapid traction, and establishing sales motion in the early days of a startup.   Some of the topics that we covered are:   How to build a successful Go-To-Market Motion. Launch Partners and Design Partnes  How to reach your funding goal. Importance of Founder-Led selling for early startups  Importance of building an MVB (Minimal Viable Business) Motion   Thanks so much for listening! Tell a friend or ten about The Startup Selling Show, and please leave a review wherever you’re listening to the show.   Links & Resources:    Website: https://www.forumvc.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bocardia/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrbocs Blog: https://scalingto100.com/about/   Listen & subscribe to The Startup Selling Show here:   BluBrry | Deezer | Amazon | Stitcher | Spotify | iTunes | Soundcloud | SalesQualia   Thanks so much for listening! Tell a friend or ten about The Startup Selling Show, and please leave a review wherever you’re listening to the show.