How A Non-Salesman Sold Two Startups – with Nori Yoshida

Nori Yoshida, Curebit, B2B, Marketing, Scaling, Sell Your Business

You’ll hear Nori Yoshida admit that didn’t negotiate hard enough when he sold his second company, Kenlet, which made community-based sites that featured Q&A, news and suggestions. He’s not a salesman.

So how did he grow and sell two startups? You’ll find out in this interview. You’ll also hear about Curebit, a Y Combinator company that incentivizes customers to refer their friends.

Nori Yoshida

Curebit

Nori Yoshida is the co-founder of Curebit, a Y Combinator-backed company that incentivizes your customers to refer their friends.

 

If you try an experiment with me, I’ll tell you a secret. If you go to freshbooks.com and create a brand new account, of course, refer to Mixergy when they ask how you heard about them, but if you go to FreshBooks and create an account and send me an invoice, my email address is andrew@mixergy.com, well if you use FreshBooks to send me an invoice, I will respond and tell you how much money I made with this add. I know you must be curious. I’ll answer the questions if you invoice me. The other thing you’ll discover is that invoicing with FreshBooks is dead easy. No more headaches, no more wasting time. You can create your invoice lickety-split. Lickety-split, that’s the word I’m looking for. That’s a phrase. Dead simple. Makes your company look professional because you can design it yourself, and best of all, you get paid quickly with FreshBooks. Go to FreshBooks.com, create your account. Try it out on me. Send me an invoice, and if you do,...

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