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Your Need
What brings you here today?
Growing a startup is tough—we know from experience.
Why Work With Forte?
Startups face time pressure, uncertainty, and lack of GTM experience.
That’s where we come in.
Forte Growth is your commercial GTM partner—without the equity or the cost of a full-time sales & marketing hire.
What You Get
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Expert guidance from an ex-founder, who's been in your shoes
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Hands-on execution, fractional work and not just advice
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Faster results with fewer mistakes
What We Deliver
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✅ GTM strategy and execution that investors want to fund
✅ Founder-led sales that actually close deals
✅ Milestones like your first 100 customers or $100K+ ARR
✅ Inbound & outbound growth loops, marketing ops. that generate demand
✅ Scalable sales ops & hiring plans to hit $3M+ ARR
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Let’s move fast and build what matters—in months, not years.
About Us
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Who’s Forte?
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Forte Growth was founded by Alper Yurder, ex-founder & CRO of salestech startup Flowla, where he led the team to raise $1.3M and reach $1M ARR before exiting.
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We’re not consultants who talk—we build with you, like an extension of your founding team.
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What We’re Not:
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Strategy decks with no execution
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Passive advice without impact
What We Are:
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Your hands-on GTM co-pilot
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Weekly sprints, real deliverables
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A test-learn-iterate approach to growth
Why Alper?
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Ex-Bain & Accenture consultant
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10+ years in sales leadership across Series A–D startups
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$25M+ revenue generated
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0 to 1 experience & exited VC-backed SaaS founder & CRO
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Closed and led multiple $1M+ enterprise deals
Our Mission:
Accelerate your revenue growth—fast—without costly mistakes.
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Forte Growth is like hiring a commercial co-founder, without giving up equity.
Get expert support to reach your goals, efficiently and hands-on.
Working together
So what can you expect from us?
One size fits no one! We'll take the time to understand your needs and create a tailored plan.
For example:
GTM Roadmap & Sales Audit
A thorough evaluation of your sales, marketing, delivery, and operations.
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Outcome:
A detailed analysis of your commercial maturity with prioritized action steps for immediate improvements.
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Examples: Define your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) and positioning Choose the right acquisition channels Identify gaps in your sales process Select and implement the right sales technology Address sales missteps like poor discovery and lack of process
Strategy & Implementation
Based on your diagnostic results, we'll focus on a service area that matches your stage and needs.
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Examples:
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Market positioning strategies
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Improving your sales approach
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Establishing a repeatable sales process
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Hiring and team development
Typical Engagements: From 0 to 1: Devise and execute a GTM strategy Improve founder-led sales, skills, and processes Scale sales with a repeatable process and strategic hiring Sales engine foundations for $1-10M ARR
Ongoing Support & Coaching
Creating and managing B2B sales teams can be tough without experience.
We offer:
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Initial coaching
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Joint demo and discovery calls
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Founder-led sales optimization
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Team coaching
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Post-engagement mentoring & improvements
Our Services
Depending on your company's stage and in-house expertise, your GTM strategy will need different support.
Typically we might create a bespoke approach combining some of the elements below.
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From 0 to 1: Devising a GTM strategy
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Early-stage startups, typically Pre-Seed to Seed, focusing on founder-led sales or scaling.
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Build G2M strategy to acquire first customers
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Clarify messaging, ICP for outbound to go from initial MRR to more
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Marketing support: messaging, sales collaterals, demo and discovery scripts
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Pitching, fundraising & co-founder alignment support
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CRM essentials
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Scaling Sales: Repeatable Process & Hiring
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Approaching Product-Market Fit with a functioning sales motion, starting to hire first sales team.
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Test and select the right sales motion, e.g. Product-led vs. Sales-led
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Document sales stages, tasks and weekly management to ensure implementation
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1-2-1 founder coaching from discovery to closing to improve win rates
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Finding PMF through customer research and joint calls
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Onboarding, hiring, team coaching
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Content creation support
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Growth Mode: Building Sales Engine Foundations
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Generating steady revenue, but needing to fix processes before hiring a costly sales leader and scaling.
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Efficient CRM setup, reporting, and forecasting
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Revenue analysis to identify quick wins vs. big bets
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Key account management, expansion, and upsell strategies for revenue impact
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Hiring, firing, team coaching​
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Co-founder alignment
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Customer success practices and sales-CS handover.
Flexible Options
Once we identify your need, we will decide on our ways of working and its cost to your business.
Strategist & Coach
After initial sales audit, align on goals and objectives.
Work 3-4 hours per week together to achieve goals based on your stage.
Usually a 12-16 - week programme before reaching next stage
Hands on Implementation
More hands on than coach.
Document, iterate and improve processes.
Manage or co-manage sales and marketing resources
1-2 days a week
Fractional CRO
Typically 3-6 months engagement. Prepare foundations before the arrival of your sales leader - head of or CRO.
2-3 days a week.
Media Hub & Resources
How to increase your demo conversions
How to increase your demo conversions
Selling on Linkedin: Startup Strategies
How to engage your buyers end-to-end
G2M: Hands-on Guide
Finding PMF
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Partnerships for Business Growth
How to Scale Your Sales
CRO tips & checklists
Building your MVP & Right Co-founders
The Future of B2B Sales & Tech Sale
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