Boston Founders Forum
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Founders Forum
Boston Founders Forum aims to foster impactful collaborations by forging a united startup community in Boston through unique meetups that mix networking, learning, and evolving — all with a touch of fun!
Each event is special and brings a new perspective to the table for founders to learn from, along practical insights. With speakers ranging from Harvard Business School professors and lecturers, founders and C-Level executives who have participated in multiple successful exits, and high-profile special guest influencers.
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GTM & Founder Sales Mastery
with Chris Harris @ 12 PM EST
As a founder, you are your company’s first salesperson. Drawing from my experience as a mentor in Harvard Business School’s Entrepreneurial Sales (ES101) course, I’ll share practical, real-world techniques to help you sell your product effectively and lay the groundwork for building a high-performing sales team. In this series, we’ll cover everything from structuring your sales process to scaling your efforts as you grow.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
- How to build effective email campaigns & LinkedIn strategies
- Creating content that builds trust and drives results
- Leveraging partnerships and compelling events to scale
- Using AI and offshore resources to streamline your operations
- Founder selling techniques to help you lead early sales and position your startup for growth
This first webinar is free for everyone! It’s a perfect chance to get a taste of what we’re building at Boston Founders Forum (BFF)—a community of founders and startup teams supporting one another as they grow and scale.
BFF members will get exclusive access to the entire series, along with valuable resources, insights, and opportunities for deeper engagement to help accelerate your growth. Join us to learn, connect, and collaborate!
Bart Fanelli is CEO and Co-founder of Skillibrium. He has held operations, enablement, leadership development, sales, and executive roles during his 25-year tech career. His expertise includes global sales leadership, strategy, and all areas of field and revenue operations. Bart is an executive advisor, entrepreneur, and co-author of the best-seller, The Success Cadence: Unleash Your Organization’s Rapid Growth Culture.
Over his career, Bart has perfected a system for generating exceptional and predictable sales performance that helped Splunk scale from ~$60M to ~$1.5B over seven years, and the HBR article, How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success, highlights his success. Following Splunk, he helped OutSystems grow from ~$100M to ~$300M over three years, and decided it was time to build Skillibrium so he could democratize his proven approach and help sales, revenue and go-to-market leaders create high-performing teams at scale.
Bart frequently writes and speaks about operational scalability and sees the lack of operating alignment, repeatable frameworks, and sales execution discipline across the sales cycle between teams and individuals. Predictability and results improve when the whole revenue team is aligned, operating on cadence and collaborating using a modern playbook.
Bart has a passion for mentoring and helping others. When he's not working, Bart spends time with his wife, Erica, and their three sons in Atlanta. They frequently travel together to catch their favorite band, Pearl Jam, in concert.
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The Boston Founders Forum is an exclusive gathering of Boston’s most innovative executives, investors, and founders. It's a platform to engage, network, and share strategies among Boston's leading startup professionals.
The forum aims to: Forge a united startup community in Boston. Host meetups that foster impactful collaborations. Dive into Boston’s unique venues. Offer a mix of networking, learning, and evolving, all with a touch of fun.
Executives, investors, founders, and anyone interested in the Boston startup community are encouraged to attend.
The agenda includes: Introductions and Networking, opening remarks by one of the founders, exclusive Keynote by a guest speaker, refreshments & breakout Sessions, and interactive Q&A.