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The Innovator's Dilemma for SaaS Startups

Tom Tunguz

This is why the very largest enterprise software companies pursue the biggest customers; because they leverage the sales economies of larger accounts. Let’s contrast an inbound sales team at an SMB company and with an outbound sales team at an enterprise company where both companies spend the same per year in sales, about $0.75M.

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How ZoomInfo Converts Hundreds of Leads in a Single Day — With a ‘Demo Day’ Sprint

Sales Hacker

The marketing and rev-gen teams meet with the inbound sales team on a daily basis for weeks leading up to Demo Day. This allows the sales team to provide feedback on the lists. It allows the marketing team to optimize their demand-generating campaigns. The Significance of Team-Building.

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