Sales 101 - Bangalore Mixer
This is home turf. If India's SaaS runs on anything, it runs on this city, and it runs on the people who sell it. So the Bangalore mixer is the big one.
But first, your average day. You send a follow up that opens with "just circling back," knowing full well the circle is closed.
The prospect who was "very interested" last week has developed sudden budget concerns and forgotten how e-signatures work. Someone said "let me align internally" and that alignment, like the deal, is never coming.
You updated the CRM with "great conversation, strong intent," left the next step blank, and felt nothing. It's 7pm, you're stuck somewhere on the Outer Ring Road, the number's still short, and tomorrow you run it back.
And in a city this packed with sellers, when exactly did you last meet another one who actually gets it?
That's the point of the mixer. No speakers, no slides, no one making you align on anything.
Just Bangalore's SaaS crowd, the AEs and SDRs and founders and everyone in between, in one room with drinks and good food, finally talking to each other instead of at prospects.
Because here's the thing about sales. It's the loneliest team sport there is. You close a deal and celebrate it alone at your desk. A prospect ghosts you three days before quarter end and you refresh your inbox like they owe you rent.
Your friends hear "the deal slipped to next quarter" and change the subject. But the person next to you at the mixer? They lost the same deal last month. They've sent the same cringe follow up. And they've cracked a few things you're still fighting with.
This is the city that sells to the world. Every big SaaS name and a thousand startups you've cold called at some point, all within a 15 km radius that somehow takes two hours to cross. All that talent, all that hustle, and we almost never end up in the same room.
That day we will fix that.
So come through. Meet your people.
Trade the war stories you can't tell anyone else. Find out who's hiring, who's got the good lines, who's just genuinely fun to be around.
Make a friend, make a connection, maybe make an accidental business partner around the second drink.
No pitch. No pressure. Just the best sales crowd in the country, one room, one very good evening.
The city's biggest mixer. You in? 🍻
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