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Business Development For Startups and Tech Companies (Udemy.com)

Unlock massive growth using the business development channel. Learn pitching, BD strategy, cold emailing, & deal closing

Created by: Scott Britton

Last updated July 2015

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What you will learn

  • By the end of this course, you will be armed with everything you need to dominate business development.
  • You'll learn strategy, cold emailing, cold calling, pitching, selling, how to close deals, build a network, manage partners, generate leads, and much more including the human psychology behind all of this

How it compares

Against the other 1,210 rated Udemy courses in Business on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 9% of them
  • Reviews2,452#267 of 1,211 by number of reviews
  • Length30.7 hourslonger than 97% of them
  • Last updatedJuly 2015earlier than 98% of them

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Course Description

**UPDATED OCTOBER 2017**** Called "the best course on Startup Business Development on the internet. A total shortcut for anyone looking to hone their skills"

Companies explode when they crack the code to business development.

I know first hand after the last company I was doing business development for sold for 100 million in less than 3 years after it started.

The challenge is only a very small percentage of people actually know what they're doing when it comes to achieving massive, scalable growththrough the business development.

Even worse, there's practically no comprehensive training material on it. In fact, mentorship and training is only available through years of working alongside the best or high-end consultants that costs hundreds of dollars an hour.

This disconnect is why so many companies are missing out on unlocking incredible growth and most "business developers" can't deliver on the results they promise.

This course was created to change that and has only been available amongst a private, group of elite Business Development professionals until now...

This isn't one of those training programs that gives you some basic theory and sends you out into the trenches only slightly better off then when you started...

By the end of this training you will be armed with breakout business development cunning and an arsenal of proven tactics for every situation you'll face.

Need to nail biz dev strategy and don't know where to start? - you're covered

Can't get meetings with high leverage prospects? - you're covered

Prospects not receptive or getting back to you? - you're covered

Can't get a stalled deal to close? - boom, you'll learn how to disarm that too

This training covers the whole business devleopment stack from providing frameworks to establish your strategy to rogue cold emailing & calling strategies you can use to get meetings with anyone. You'll also learn how to pitch like powerhouse and push deals through the finish line with clockwork consistency.

This premium training is perfect and has already delivered results for:

  • Companies who want to unlock the next-level growth available by creating Business Development partnerships and growth relationships
  • Senior business development professionals looking to sharpen their spear with unconventional, proven tactics
  • Managers who want to save time and provide their teams with the absolute best business development training available
  • People who are new to business development or want to work in this role and are trying to get a leg up on everyone else

When you're done this course, new levels of excellence will be in reach...as well as the big time personal rewards that comes comes with that.

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Below you can find out exactly how the training is laid out, but real quick here are the sections:

  1. Introduction and Developing An Offensive Mindset - Understand the function of Biz Dev and develop mindsets for success
  2. Strategy - Performing Leverage Audits, Strategy Options, Choosing Your Strategy, First Deal Tactic Selection
  3. Outreach - Isolating Key Stakeholders, Cold Emailing, Cold Calling, and Mastering Turning Rebuttals into Meetings
  4. Powerhouse Pitching - First Meetings, Positioning, Pitch Deck Construction, Pitch Execution, Pre-sales Tactics (advanced)
  5. Winning In The Deal Funnel - Objections, Dialogue Continuity, Relationship Building, Getting Buy-In, Deal Terms, Negotiation, and Closing Tactics
  6. Implementation and Inbound Opportunities - Implement and Expand Inked Deals; Strategies for Creating Inbound Opportunities

Trust me, this is just a small sample of what you'll learn and by the end of this course you'll have every tool you need in order to tap into your full business development potential.

I will personally respond to any questions you may have as you go through the material so there's no worry if you're not sure how to take all of the information and apply it to your business.

AND you'll have access to all of this material as well as the newest stuff I share with everyone on the inside of the course for life!

REMINDER: this is a risk free purchase with Udemy's 30 day money back guarantee. Nothing to lose, everything to gain.

Hope to see you on the inside,

-Scott Britton

BTW - This training is something I've kept off of everything but my own private community site for a long time due to weariness of exposing too many trade secrets. After finally getting convinced by some students that more people needed to see it, I decided to put it up here on Udemy. I can't guarantee I will keep making it available to purchase forever considering my initial concerns, so I'd grab it while you still can.

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Instructor Details

Scott Britton

I'm Scott Britton. I'm currently a software entrepreneur at Troops.ai, a venture backed Saas startup that was named one of the top 100 startups in NYC in 2016. Before this I was a business development executive at SinglePlatform, a company acquired by Constant Contact for 100 million dollars. I also maintain a personal site called Life-LongLearner which publishes content to 20k subscribers weekly on sales and marketing.

I'm passionate about personal development, marketing, and travel. I've taught over 50,000 students online and been featured in Lifehacker, The Next Web, and Business Insider as one of the top 25 rising stars in New York Tech Under 25.

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Reviews

4.2

2,452 ratings on Udemy

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By Softelsie Developer on 6/26/2026

I had an excellent learning experience with this course. The content was well-structured, easy to follow, and highly relevant to real-world applications. The instructors explained the concepts clearly, and the practical exercises helped reinforce my understanding. I gained valuable knowledge and skills that I can apply confidently in my work. I would highly recommend this course to anyone looking to build or enhance their expertise in this area.

By William Coetzee on 11/27/2025

Its going too deep and too long into cold calling and cold emailing...Its too much and boring...

By Sylvie Magnus on 8/10/2022

It was great and more current than Ivy schools programs. Room for improvement would be: 1. To update the links as a lot of the website resources are actually obsolete 2. Have a simple format to download at once with all the transcripts and slides at the end. Spent 48 hours just doing them 1 by 1. Apart from, that a big bravo and thank you as it will be very useful.

By Joseph Ateya on 12/18/2020

Hi Scott, thank you so much for hosting this course. It was brilliant. I found the course very insightful and highly informative. I am the program manager at a software comparison site. and a large part of my responsibility is growing the partnerships of the program. I will definitely be taking your tips back to my team and recommending it to my colleagues who handle BD directly. Thanks, Joe

By Mark Mercatali on 12/15/2020

Amazing content! Good balance between practical tools and well-explained theory concepts. Unfortunately in not very up to date, regarding new media channels and tools. Scoot did a really great job by taking the crux of his Long Business Development Experience and convey it in a neutral and unbiased way (it's not too vertical on Software Biz Dev).

By Mehdi Abedi on 11/8/2020

The course is not well organised at all. There just some dry slide which repeat some theories with no reference or examples. Kind of boring course.

By Youssef Hassouna on 11/1/2020

Simply presented

By Rakesh Das on 10/20/2020

overall good

By Pratheepa Arulanandam on 10/19/2020

Personally it is an amazing course to read. This helps me in basic pitching, BD Strategy, cold emailing etc. I highly recommend this course everyone who are aspiring in business platform

By Ben K on 9/6/2020

So much i did not know. My Company AITASI COMPANY LIMITED is a start up that has embraced partnership and i think luckily we have been doing some of the principles here un knowingly

By Amarachi Amaechi on 9/4/2020

Great course

By Aj Smith on 8/24/2020

Well presented and covered the basics well

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