Harshvardhan Mishra 👹

I was in my very first Sales Job, right out of college, I was more excited than scared. 

Probably that's a good thing. 🤷 

But yeah, one fine day, I asked help from a Senior Director in my team, to give me some e-mail templates & cold call scripts, if the lord had it.

Lord smirked at me, and said: "You are a wild horse Harsh, you have not been tamed yet"

My eyes wide open, in disbelief, I questioned, 'if I was a Horse all this time?  " 

First of all: "Excuse me, what??" 😮

But come to think of, I do love open grassfields, have empathy and am intelligent but still, the confusion prevailed. 🤔 

Only to realise that he had left me on my own. 

And probably that's a good thing too. 🌼 

Because dramatically getting hurt by his one small comment, I ignited fire in me, called another founder ( Sridhar - B2Brain ) and said:

"I can't take this anymore" 

"We need to build a support system" 

"He said, 'I hear you'" 

"Let's do it" 

And thus somehow a Sales Community for SaaS Sellers was born 🥂

In the midlife, it became to be known as Sales 101, and man we did and do some great fun 🤩 

- Brunches ( Mixers ) 
- Workshops 
- Rant Sessions / Zigs 

and much more. 

So that little idea is now a movement, where we want to build an ecosystem for Indian SaaS Sellers and provide a home, a village, a shoulder to take them forward together 🫂

Account Executive

Working in SMB Sales

Harshvardhan Mishra

I have been a big advocate of Generalists. 

The Jack of all trades, master of few ( or none sometimes ). 

But after doing a lot of general work, I have started to feel the following:
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1. General Work helps you identify what you like the most and you are good at. 

That is, you can find where you can be a specialist, by being a generalist. 
If that is clear to you without doing general work, no worries then. 

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2. General work is needed at different stages of the org that you are working in. 

Either in early stage, where they don't know what will work the most for the org. 

Or in the later stages, where they need to unlock new or run experiments without disturbing the core business. 

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3. General work helps you develop yourself really well, you build your talent pallet across fields. 

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4. Generalists often find it hard to express what is that they do well?

They hit a wall, no one wants them, except if they ( the org)  have that exact problem. 

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5. Specialists have leverage which goes way beyond the generalists but specialists have least flexibility. 

Example - Someone who built their career by doing code review or inbound lead qualification, they are really good at it, but one day suddenly their work gets assigned to AI or people at lower pay. 

They often don't have any secondary skill or expertise to fall back on. 

But in right opportunities, no one will even look at the Generalists over specialists. ( Generalists are risky, volatile and value add to a specific field is not clear at times ) 

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As Bruce Lee said: 

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

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Conclusion: 

Be a generalist early on, and then become a specialist. 

If you are a specialist already, try more things, get an edge over other specialists.

India’s OG SaaS Sales Community | Sales 101

Making humans more articulate, starting with sales | Co-written/produced 6 comedy shows

2X founder with product & growth expertise in
- B2B use cases post-generative AI era
- positioning, experimenting & iterating towards PMF
- AI infra, salestech & healthcare domains

Active in the US-India corridor. Here to engage and connect with fellow product & GTM builders.

Outside of work, I co-write web/comedy shows and stay up-to-date up on pop culture & latest tech.

Puneet Lamba

Immensely proud of the work put in by our team at Simplismart, and thankful for the ever present support from NVIDIA and NVIDIA for Startups leadership for this huge achievement. 🙂

Let’s go! Amritanshu Jain Devansh Ghatak Tobias Halloran Unnikrishnan A R

🚀 Exciting announcement! 

Simplismart's platform is now available for cloud providers on NVIDIA stack as a fully integrable AI Cloud abstraction layer. 

This game changing development 
1️⃣  enables cloud providers to leverage Simplismart-optimised models served via NIMs (NVIDIA Inference Microservices).
2️⃣  empowers AI builders to choose desired config(s) that are optimised for throughput, latency, cost & quality for their specific use case (voice agents, media generation, doc parsing, agentic AI etc.).
3️⃣  bridges the provider-builder gap by unlocking capabilities like rapid autoscaling, governance, and faster model iteration while maintaining production-grade deployment standards.

To know more, come talk to us at Simplismart Booth #731 at NVIDIA GTC (March 16-19, San Jose). 

Amritanshu Jain, Devansh Ghatak, Tobias Halloran, Unnikrishnan A R, Puneet Lamba, Arundhati Banerjee, NVIDIA for Startups

https://lnkd.in/gCCQ9wkB

Open article: Simplismart announces availability of optimized MLOps, AI platform on NVIDIA infrastructure by cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com

Simplismart announces availability of optimized MLOps, AI platform on NVIDIA infrastructure

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