CEO & Co-founder @Hyperly | Helping founders acquire clients through LinkedIn funnels | Building Hyperly — Social Selling platform | Learn about my 4-week Linkedin Sales Cohort

Most early-stage founders don’t need a sales team.
They need a system — one they can run themselves till $1M.

I’ve built and sold two companies. The first one taught me how hard sales is without a plan. The second one taught me how to fix it.

Now, I help AI, SaaS, and IT Services founders build Founder-Led Sales Engines that work in the US — without hiring too early or burning leads.

What I build with founders:

- Clarity on ICP & messaging

- Lean outbound & LinkedIn systems

- Email + DM + Cold call playbooks

- AI-powered sales tools

- Founder-to-closer mindset shifts

It’s not about closing more — it’s about knowing what not to do before $1M.

If you’re in the 0–$1M zone, let’s talk systems.

Want to see how I build founder-led sales systems?

Download the exact 0–$1M Sales Playbook I use with AI-SaaS & IT founders selling into the US:

👉 https://www.elephantedge.academy/playbooks

Just the real frameworks that work before you hire a sales team.

Venkatesh M.

I’ve officially partnered with GTM Partners to enable founders build $1M US GTM engine.

In 2025, I worked hands-in-hand with 5 different companies, as a Fractional VP Sales, to help them move from ad-hoc selling to a repeatable B2B pipeline in the US.

All of them and many founders I've been having conversation with, had the same question..
- How to sell AI products to SMBs in the US
- How to sell Agentic AI services to mid-market clients
- How to crack enterprise sales with deal sizes >$250K for the first time

The reality in 2026:

Without sales + distribution and the know-how to achieve the first $1M in revenue, there is no next stage, nor a serious funding conversation.

Partnering with GTM Partners gives me deeper leverage to help founders crack the US market in the right way at the right speed. 

If you’re building for the US, this is the work I’m focused on.

Thanks to Sangram Vajre and Bryan Brown for the partnership and trust. Thanks to my team at Elephant Edge | Fractional VP Sales Leadership for making this happen.

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I’m Venkatesh M., Fractional VP Sales. I build and run US sales teams for 50–200 employee companies, from first hire to first $1M, until it works. DM me if cracking the US market is your #1 priority in 2026.

#founder #GTM #USSales

Fractional VP for AI-SaaS & Tech Startups Scaling to $1M+ | US Market GTM & Sales | Certified GTM OS Partner

Avinash Haridas

Helping B2B SaaS startups book more discovery calls with outbound e-mail

With almost 10 years of experience in driving B2B growth, I specialize in leveraging cutting-edge technology and data-driven strategies to create highly effective lead generation campaigns. My focus is on trigger-based outbound email campaigns , where outreach is driven by real-time sales triggers and behavioral data, ensuring relevance and higher engagement.

At Precise Leads, I've developed a proprietary system that integrates tools like Clay, Smartlead, Ocean , & CRM systems, and sales automation to optimize every aspect of the cold email process—from list building and personalization to deliverability and response tracking. We design direct response campaigns that target high-value prospects and deliver measurable results.

What sets me apart is a technical, hands-on approach to ensuring that your cold emails don’t just reach the inbox, but also resonate with decision-makers. By focusing on deliverability, A/B testing, and continuous optimization, I help companies build scalable outbound systems that generate predictable revenue.

If you're looking to build a pipeline of qualified leads, boost sales through multi-channel outreach, or simply improve your email deliverability, let's connect. Together, we’ll create strategies that turn outreach into opportunity.

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Starting this week, I'm sharing one Clay workflow every week.

Something valuable. Something specific. Something some of you can actually use.

This week: a workflow for online reputation management agencies.

The setup:
A couple months back, we met a marketing agency that offers reputation management services to small US businesses. It's apparently one of those evergreen business lines for them - that keeps giving !

They were doing this manually:
→ Finding businesses with bad Google reviews
→ Checking review counts and negative %
→ Reaching out to owners

So I automated it.

What this Clay table does:
1️⃣ Scrapes Google My Business profiles
2️⃣ Calculates total reviews + negative review %
3️⃣ Flags businesses crossing a reputation pain threshold
4️⃣ Enriches owner email & phone
5️⃣ Makes the list outbound-ready

No guessing. Just live buying signals.

I've packaged this as 2 Clay tables + a workflow diagram.

If you want it, comment "GMB" or DM me.

Also - I'm happy to take requests.

If there's a workflow you need built, drop it in the comments. If it's interesting and I can build it, I will.

#clay #gtm #onlinereputationmanagement #sales

GTM Engineer | Clay Systems & Outbound Architect | Clay Club Lead | AI Collective Chapter Lead | Building signal-based GTM engines for B2B SaaS

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