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Bellows: Yesware partners with Salesforce, competes with InsideSales and ClearSlide

Matthew Bellows · Yesware Aims for $30m in 2016 with Matthew Bellows of Yesware · Feb 5, 2016 · at 16:25

Matthew Bellows, founder and CEO of Yesware, clarifies Yesware's category positioning and direct competitors in the sales acceleration space.

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“We are a partner for Salesforce.com and other CRMs. we compete with companies like Insidesales.com or ClearSlide or others that, you know, are also trying to make salespeople more effective with their software.”

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