Close More, Guess Less: A Sales Workshop for Founders Ready to Scale
Event Details
Whether you're the sole salesperson at your company or just starting to build your first sales team, this half-day intensive will give you the frameworks and practical skills to build a disciplined, scalable sales process.
Through this engaging, interactive workshop, you'll learn how to run a disciplined pipeline, how to build the framework to support it, and how to uncover the blindspots to make revenue more predictable from one deal to the next — whether you're closing deals yourself or managing your first sales hire or team.
Who is this event for?
This workshop is specifically designed for founders of scalable startups who:
- Currently own the sales function but recognize the need to move beyond founder-led sales
- Plan to delegate sales or hire a sales team in the foreseeable future
- Are looking for practical sales systems and frameworks that can help set the stage for significant growth
- Can't pinpoint why deals win or lose — and want to predict outcomes before it's too late
Why should you attend?
You'll leave this workshop ready to:
- Approach sales with confidence: Gain a clear understanding of what you need to do to close deals so you can have better conversations when it matters
- Build systems that scale: Understand how to create the structure and processes that will help you move past the bottleneck of founder-led sales
- Make your pipeline work for you: Get practical frameworks to accurately qualify deals and forecast revenue that you can use immediately or when you start to manage your future sales hires.
What will we cover?
This workshop tackles three essential areas:
- The SKILLS needed to sell effectively
- The CONFIDENCE to have uncomfortable sales conversations
- The DISCIPLINE of effective pipeline management
You'll learn practical frameworks you can apply immediately to source, nurture and close more deals. You’ll also learn what systems, metrics, and habits can help you scale sales beyond yourself - the gate you must clear to achieve real growth.
Who is leading this event?
Startup Sales is led by a team of experienced entrepreneurs and sales leaders:
- Allison Wood is the former CEO and co-founder of DaVinci Education, an enterprise B2B SaaS company spun out of Duke School of Medicine. After a dozen years selling complex enterprise software to medical schools around the world, DaVinci was acquired in 2024 as part of a strategic merger under the banner of PE firm Achieve Partners.
- Brian Ondrako is a 15-year software sales veteran who has sold at every level — SMB, mid-market, and enterprise, across both private and public sector. He now coaches early-stage founders to build the pipeline discipline and systems that make revenue predictable as they scale beyond founder-led sales.
- Chris Leithe has owned pre and post sales and marketing for multiple 8 figure businesses, helped the Citrix ShareFile sales team scale from 30 to 300 reps, Adwerx scale fro $10MM to $27MM, and built out B2B, Enterprise, and B2B2C motions for FoodSmart (recently acquired for over $200MM). He now helps founders and CEOs build and monetize social media audiences, find leads, close more deals, and scale sales teams.
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