The game has changed because some of the deals now are so massive and so you can't walk in with a salesperson and a technology engineer to go close a deal in that first chasm
Kurt Davis Co founder/CEO of Biteline and author of "Navigate the Lighthouse" and the BD aSaaSin, joins the show to talk about:
Kurt Davis is a technology entrepreneur, world explorer, and well-being aficionado. The first 20 years of his career were spent between the San Francisco Bay Area and Asia working with technology startups in finance and business development roles. He chronicles his learnings in Navigate to the Lighthouse: A Silicon Valley Guide to Executing Global Deals.
In 2017, he took a gap year -- if you will. With an interest to explore an unexplored part of the world, he went to Africa and volunteered at emerging business accelerators and non-profits. This experience resulted in starting a business accelerator in a refugee camp, Kakuma. The website is here: www.kakumaventures.com. He wrote a book about it called Finding Soul: From Silicon Valley to Africa.
He returned to the US in 2018 and launched a media company, KDAlive LLC (www.kdalive.com). This platform shares his experiences with those who are mapping their careers and lives with a focus on well-being, travel/culture, and self-employment/entrepreneurship.
Originally from South Carolina, he has a B.S. in Economics from Davidson College and an MBA from Duke Fuqua Business School.
