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Transforming a startup from early to repeatable sales is HARD.

If you’re a B2B founder with early sales, then you've done many things right to win your first customers.

BUT - to raise a round A, your startup will need to have a product that's ready to scale because it can be 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙮.

To get repeatable sales - there are four blockers. 
 
You'll need to change each one from "not working" to "working": 
 
1️⃣ Consistently creating a 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 of conversations with customers 
 
2️⃣ Converting these conversations into a 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 of first meetings 
 
3️⃣ Converting these meetings into a 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 of trials 
 
4️⃣ Converting trials into a 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 of deals. 
 
These blockers need to be removed 𝙨𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 - i.e. one by one. 
 
💡 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗪. 𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀.

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I'm a former co-founder and CEO at ApolloShield - a profitable YC startup.

I work hands-on with B2B founders on turning their early sales into repeatable sales through a combination of disciplines:

1️⃣ 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀: Understanding the market, identifying target customers, and analyzing competitors.

2️⃣ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴: Defining how the product fits into the market and crafting compelling messages to appeal to the target audience.

3️⃣ 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀: Developing strategies for selling the product, including choosing sales channels and partnerships.

4️⃣ 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵, 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Creating and executing campaigns to build brand awareness and generate leads.

5️⃣ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀: Managing discovery and commercial discussions with clients and partners to get their business.

5️⃣ 𝗢𝗻𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸: Gathering customer feedback and continuously adapting the product and strategies accordingly.

6️⃣ 𝗜𝗧 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: Building support systems to holistically orchestrate and manage your GTM efforts.

7️⃣ 𝗥𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗱 𝗜𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Developing a method to move forward quickly, iterate and get market feedback - doubling what works and tossing what doesn’t.

🚀 Let's connect and accelerate your startup together!

Nimo Shkedy

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Our users kept referring people.

Knowing we had no way to reward them.

For months.

New users would sign up and tell us "a friend recommended Baseloop."

We loved hearing it.

But it also meant someone out there was bringing us customers, 

and all we could say back was "thank you."

No referral link to share.
No credits to offer the person they referred.
No payout for the one who sent them.

They did it anyway. Because the product worked and they wanted others to have it too.

That's the kind of thing you don't take for granted.

Today we finally made it official.

Baseloop's referral program is live for all users, powered by Cello.

Here's what it means for you:

→ You get a personal referral link inside Baseloop
→ When someone you referred becomes a customer, they get 2,000 free credits
→ And you earn $50

No hoops. No tiers. You share, they sign up, you get paid.

If you've already been telling people about Baseloop, now there's a link for that.

Shoutout to Ana Marie Nila Hernandez, FIA, Jesse Singer, and Glenn Perez for getting this integrated.

And big thanks to Cello for powering it.

Our AE makes 400 cold calls a day.

14% connect. That's ~56 live conversations.

After every connected call, there's a checklist no one talks about:

→ Log the disposition
→ Update the CRM
→ Pause the outbound sequence
→ Write a follow-up based on what was said

That's 10 minutes of admin per call. Multiply that by 56.

Vincent (our AE) flagged it pretty fast:

At this volume, he couldn't follow up on everything.

Conversations were slipping through.

Not because the calls went badly, but because there wasn't enough time between them.

So we automated all of it 👇

Every prospect starts in a table where we enrich them with verified phone numbers from FullEnrich and BetterContact.

From there, they get pushed into lemlist, which runs the full sequence: emails, follow-ups, and call steps.

Salesfinity dials those call steps at scale.

When someone picks up, this is where it gets interesting:

→ The transcript and disposition flow back into the table automatically
→ Each call gets scored: interested or not
→ Interested? The lemlist sequence pauses, the transcript gets analyzed, and a personalized follow-up goes out
→ Not interested? The sequence continues or they get removed

All of this runs in Baseloop.

Zero admin between calls. Vincent van der Plas just dials.

Cold calling at scale only works if your post-call workflow can keep up. Now ours does.

Our AE has 40+ follow-up tasks every Monday.

Prospects who said: not now.
Reach out in a few weeks.

Good conversations. Real interest. Just bad timing.

Here's what clearing that list actually costs:

→ Open a task
→ Open HubSpot
→ Find the last email
→ Scroll through call notes
→ Remember what was said
→ Write something that doesn't sound like a template

5 minutes each. 40+ tasks. Half a day gone before a single email is sent.

We decided that's AI's job. Not Vincent's.

Here's what we built with Baseloop + Claude Code 👇

1. Every Monday, Baseloop pulls all follow-up tasks from HubSpot

2. It verifies the contact is still at the company
One in five aren't. Without this step, you're crafting personalized emails into the void.

3. It reads the full email thread and call notes. Then writes the follow-up.
Not "just checking in." A draft that references what was actually discussed last time.

4. The draft lands in lemlist
→ Vincent reviews and sends the first message
→ Lemlist takes over. Email, LinkedIn, phone.

40+ tasks. Zero research. Half a day back, every week.

HubSpot knows when to reach out. Baseloop reads the history and writes the email. lemlist gets it delivered.

How are you handling follow-up research right now?

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