This document discusses entrepreneurial challenges and hardships. It notes that the author has helped over 200 venture-backed startups in Silicon Valley scale their sales. It then lists some difficult situations the author has faced, including almost closing deals with Google, Intuit, and Oracle, having brothers visit when there was no electricity, and having to fire half of a company's employees while dancing to "Bye Bye Bye". It concludes by stating they are hiring.

1. Entrepreneurial
Pain
Hard
Stories
About
Hard
Things
steli@close.io

2. Helped
200+
venture
backed
startups
in
Silicon
Valley
scale
sales.

6. HARD
STORIES

7. Almost
closing
Google,
Intuit
&
Oracle

9. Brothers
visit
&
no
electricity

10. Killing
the
Zombie
Startup

11. Firing
half
the
company
while
dancing
Bye
Bye
Bye

13. We’re
hiring!