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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. In 2002, Aaron Ross's Predictable Revenue playbook from his time at Salesforce was published. It shared the repeatable process to operationalize sales, particularly sales development. Integrate sales CRM (Salesforce).

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I think in 2002 we only signed up two customers and this was after the dot-com bubble burst, 9/11 happened. And I started as an engineer and as an MBA and frankly in business school back then they didn’t even have a class on sales. And I think most of your teams, you need sales engineers, you need founders.