Sales Strategy Crash Course for Founders - Getting Your Deals Closed
✨ Sales Strategy Crash Course for Founders - Getting Your Deals Closed
When: Thursday, December 11, 2025
Doors: 9:00 AM — Program: 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM PT
Where: Port Labs — Oakland, CA
Presented by: Wisdom Partners
Register: https://luma.com/g8c0fwv5
Founder Revenue Acceleration Workshop
Most Seed and Seed+ founders don’t have a problem generating interest. They have a problem converting that interest into revenue.
This workshop will give you the practical system used across multiple early-stage startups to turn slow, friendly, or stalled conversations into real, fundable decisions.
What Founders Will Learn
1. Why early deals stall - We’ll surface the bottlenecks every Seed founder hits: friendly champions, stalled pilots, free trials that create work not urgency, and deals held hostage by Legal or Finance.
2. The practical pattern that closes early-stage deals - A simple, usable diagnostic founders apply immediately to move real conversations forward.
3. How to get meetings and earn the decision conversation - Trigger-based outreach, timing, and credibility signals buyers respond to.
4. Executive storytelling - A clear narrative investors and buyers can take upstairs without rewriting.
5. Where your next 3 real opportunities will come from - How to focus on the accounts that actually convert.
Learn From Compressed Case Examples
• SaaS deal stuck 90 days closed after rewriting a KPI-linked internal email.
• Cybersecurity deal blocked in Legal/InfoSec moved once safe escalation language was provided.
• Data-platform startup drowning in demos won an enterprise deal by reframing workflow friction.
• Govtech deal told “next year” funded immediately once cost-of-delay was quantified.
Optional Afternoon 1-on-1 Deal Acceleration Sessions
Four 50-minute individualized working sessions with Mark are available to focus on your real pipeline. This one-time discount is first-come-first-served, and if you miss it the usual price is $500. A 1-on-1 session includes:
• Breakdown of 1–2 live deals
• Blocker and approval-path identification
• Drafting your executive story
• A 10-day motion to create movement
• Priority recommendations for your next steps
About Your Speaker
Mark Phinick is a B2B sales operator and deal coach who helps founders and reps turn “interested buyers” into closed revenue. He embeds inside live opportunities, equips champions to sell internally, and builds short, fundable motions that CFOs approve. His work has helped early-stage teams close six-figure deals, accelerate enterprise cycles, and extend runway when one decision can determine the quarter. He’s contributed to three IPOs and seven acquisitions. Two of his deal coaching clients were acquired.