Close deals and price right

Run a process that gets to a decision, and charge what the thing is worth.

What founders use for close deals and price right, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

  1. The reference explanation of all eight letters from the people who own the methodology, free to read. Use it as a deal... MEDDICC Article · long read MEDDIC / MEDDPICC Sales Methodology and Process MEDDICC In 4 answers
  2. Gives you numbers to aim at on your next call instead of vague advice: roughly 11 to 14 questions, spread through the call... Gong Labs Article · short read Effective strategies for successful sales discovery calls Chris Orlob In 3 answers
  3. Settles the most common argument in early sales: 11,331 opportunities show win rates rise when price comes up on the first... Gong Labs Article · short read When to discuss price and budget according to data Devin Reed In 3 answers
  4. Covers ICP definition, the PBC structure for running a sales call, pilot design and weekly forecasting in one place, with... First Round Review Article · long read The Most Common Go-to-Market Questions This Expert Gets from Early Founders First Round Review with Emery Rosansky In 3 answers
  5. The pragmatic case for pricing so discounts are survivable instead of pretending you will hold the line: mark up by around 20... SaaStr Article · short read The Confounding Logic of Discounting Jason Lemkin In 3 answers
  6. Built from a masterclass with Mohit Garg, former CRO at MindTickle, and written for cross-border companies selling from India,... SeedToScale by Accel Article · long read SaaS Playbook: Sales Rachit Parekh In 3 answers
  7. Segments Indian pricing properly (metro enterprise, Tier 1 SME, Tier 2 and 3 SMB) with the discount each expects, and says the... upGrowth Article · long read Pricing and Packaging Strategy for GTM Success: Framework for SaaS Markets Amol Ghemud In 3 answers
  8. Podcast · Full episode 7 Myths About Selling B2B SaaS In India ft Unicommerce Founder Kapil Makhija Siddhartha Ahluwalia with Kapil Makhija In 3 answers
  9. Before you meter anything you have to pick what to meter. Sethi's frequency versus importance grid, worked through with... SeedToScale (Accel India) Article · 16 min read Value Metrics and Pricing Design for SaaS Companies Dr. Ajay Sethi In 3 answers
  10. The whole 400 page book is readable free chapter by chapter, written specifically for founders and first-time sellers rather... foundingsales.com Book · full book, free online Founding Sales: the early stage go-to-market handbook Pete Kazanjy In 2 answers
  11. A four phase model for handing off sales, with a clear warning that most of the damage comes from adding closers too early.... aprildunford.com Article · short read Evolving From Founder Selling To A Sales Team April Dunford In 2 answers
  12. The mistake is not the hire, it is stepping out of sales afterwards, which Lemkin reckons about two thirds of founders do and... SaaStr Article · short read The #1 Mistake I See Founders Make When They Hire Their First VP of Sales Jason Lemkin In 2 answers
  13. Campbell ran pricing research at ProfitWell across thousands of companies, and his sequence (value metric, then segments, then... Lenny's Newsletter Newsletter · long read Pricing your SaaS product Patrick Campbell with Lenny Rachitsky In 2 answers
  14. Survey data from 230 B2B software and AI companies, so you can see what your peers are actually charging rather than what... Growth Unhinged Report · long read The state of B2B monetization in 2026 Kyle Poyar In 2 answers
  15. Shows how average contract value really grows as a company scales from seed to IPO, and makes the case that most of the gain... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · short read How to have 'the talk' with your customers Kyle Poyar In 2 answers
  16. Takes the three models most companies use (flat fee, feature tiers, per seat), names how each one fails, and gives specific... Growth Unhinged Newsletter · short read Your pricing is (probably) broken: Here's how to fix it Kyle Poyar In 2 answers
  17. Maps tiers to how adoption actually spreads (casual user, professional, team, organisation) rather than to a feature matrix,... Andreessen Horowitz Article · long read Bottom Up Pricing & Packaging: Let the User Journey Be Your Guide Jennifer Li and Martin Casado In 2 answers
  18. The operational side of a price change: tiered rollouts, grandfathered rates, what to communicate and when, plus data showing... Chargebee Article · long read Navigating Monetization Strategies: How to Iterate Pricing While Keeping Your Customers Happy Kim Courvoisier In 2 answers
  19. It makes the point most first-time founders miss, that early on you are selling the founders and the promise that you... Y Combinator Startup Library Video · Talk The Sales Playbook for Founders Tom Blomfield
  20. Podcast · ~85 min Building a world-class sales org Jason Lemkin
  21. A sitting CIO explains how he actually finds and evaluates startup vendors, including that roughly 80% arrive through outbound.... The Neon Show Podcast · 62 min How Startups Can Sell to Big Companies ft. Karthik Chakkarapani, Zuora Siddhartha Ahluwalia
  22. Podcast · ~60 min How Khadim Batti Built Whatfix Into a ~$900 Million Global SaaS Leader Khadim Batti
  23. Concrete on the mechanics nobody outside India writes about: INR pricing, UPI AutoPay recurring success rates versus... productgrowth.in Article · ~12 min read SaaS Pricing in India: The Rupee vs Dollar Dilemma productgrowth.in
  24. The single best forty minutes for a founder who has never sold anything. Bosmeny walks through the whole arc from the first... Y Combinator Video · conference talk How to Sell by Tyler Bosmeny Tyler Bosmeny

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The questions

Running a sales process and closing 16

Discovery, demos, qualification, champions, procurement and the last mile to a signature.

I have a call booked with a real prospect tomorrow. What do I do on it? 4 → Founder-led sales sounds terrifying. Why can I not just hire a salesperson? 4 → How do I know if a deal is real or if I am being strung along? 4 → My demos go well and then the deal stalls. How do I stop that? 5 → How do I turn random wins into a sales process someone else can run? 4 → All 16 questions in Running a sales process and closing →
Pricing and packaging 16

What to charge, what to charge for, how to package it, and how to change it later without losing people.

I have no idea what to charge. How do I pick a first price? 4 → What is a value metric and why does everyone say it matters more than the number? 4 → How do I design tiers so buyers pick the right plan and grow into the next one? 4 → How do I find out what customers will actually pay without just asking them? 4 → Should I price in rupees for India and dollars for everyone else? 4 → All 16 questions in Pricing and packaging →
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