SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2022

Go Long — if you get to Initial Scale with happy customers and good growth. When we started EchoSign / Adobe Sign in 2005/2006, the web-based e-signature market was $1m in market size. Mark is one of the most talented natural sales leaders I know). “Go visit your customers and prospects.” It was magic.

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The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

I had always been a consumer Internet guy, having founded comparison shopping engine DealPilot.com back in 1997 and personalized homepage Pageflakes in 2005. He helped us think about scale—and about the possibilities. The first date When I stumbled on Zendesk in 2008 I knew absolutely nothing about enterprise software, B2B or SaaS.

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Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital Software Review 155

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matt Rizzetta , founder of North 6th Agency, which is a communications and PR firm based in New York City. Years later, he’s got a thriving business that is not venture capital backed. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to get better at sales [21:37].

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. The same goes for Google acquiring Android for a measly $50 million in 2005 with key employees joining the company. The sale is direct between the seller and buyer. Tiny Capital.

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Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

The age-old sales funnel has worked fine for decades…until now. Why is the sales funnel alone, no longer an appropriate way of thinking about customers? Hilarie Koplow-McAdams – Venture Partner at NEA. Brian Halligan: Whether we all like it or not, trust in sales and marketing is at an all-time low.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Look at the scale. It sure does feel like 2005. What drives these disruptive cycles: Feature creep , which leads to market overshoot over time. Flood of venture capital (VC). Venture capital continues to flow. Velocity sales models aren’t new either, but they’re also a key part of PLG.

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Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 142

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

The age-old sales funnel has worked fine for decades…until now. Why is the sales funnel alone, no longer an appropriate way of thinking about customers? Hilarie Koplow-McAdams – Venture Partner at NEA. Brian Halligan: Whether we all like it or not, trust in sales and marketing is at an all-time low.

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