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The Skilled Network is a advantages program inside Founders Hub devoted to connecting founders with specialists of their area. From gross sales and finance to engineering and advertising, it’s a community of almost 2,000 Microsoft professionals all over the world who volunteer their time to assist startup founders. By way of the Skilled Community, Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub members can schedule one-on-one conferences with trade specialists throughout gross sales, advertising and engineering to search out steerage and overcome challenges they face in constructing their corporations.
Satori, a cybersecurity startup and Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub program member, implements simple safety administration for safety and engineering groups. Their platform gives safety and engineering groups with an avenue to securely handle and management their knowledge, and shortly entry knowledge whereas assembly strict compliance necessities. Based by CEO Eldad Chai and CTO Yoav Cohen, operating a startup and making a neighborhood of assist hasn’t been simple.
As everyone knows, the lifetime of a startup founder will be difficult. With the assistance of a gross sales knowledgeable Chai met by way of the Skilled Community, Gross sales Director of World Strategic Accounts at Microsoft, Steve Milner, a multitude of alternatives and views opened for Satori.
“One factor I discovered from Steve it’s worthwhile to get in entrance of Microsoft professionals as a result of all of them have this view of those founders that fly non-public airplanes, cash,” Chai tells Microsoft for Startups. “We all know that’s not the case. So, all types of issues that you simply don’t essentially know whenever you attempt to have interaction with Microsoft which can be actually useful.”
What’s the Expert Community?
Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub members acquire entry to quite a lot of resources together with Skilled Community which permits founders to seek for specialists that may reply a problem or roadblock of their journey. This international community spans languages, areas, and departments. Whether or not you’re trying to enhance LinkedIn proficiency, find out how to higher market your answer, or higher perceive the Microsoft gross sales course of—there’s somebody to assist.
“Microsoft is a tremendous expertise firm, however the Skilled Community is designed to supply all sides of enterprise and experience in that regard,” Skilled Community lead, Rick Turoczy, explains. “So, don’t consider it as simply tech assist. Consider it as advertising, gross sales, or enterprise assist.”
Discovering an knowledgeable inside the Skilled Community will be filtered right down to a product and subject material stage. Turoczy continues: “You’ll be able to actually dial it in as a way to get proper to the center of your drawback with an knowledgeable who’s deeply educated about what you’re scuffling with.”