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SaaStr Podcast #213: Tom Tunguz, GP @ Redpoint Ventures On Why Scoring Leads May Actually Be Dangerous

SaaStr

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify, and Gremlin all prior guests on the show, I hasten to add. How does this differ when comparing enterprise to SMB? How does this differ when comparing SMB to enterprise? How does this differ when comparing SMB to enterprise?

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. Adnan Chaudhry: One of the guiding principles that helped me personally, I was here as Matt mentioned, I was here at Salesforce in 2008, 2009. It’s the SMB space. Adnan Chaudhry: Thanks, Matt.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs? First, what is continuous customer development? * How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? Does one have to move to enterprise?

Scale 126
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SaaStr Podcast for the Week with Redpoint Ventures and Cloudflare — January 3, 2020

SaaStr

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify and Gremlin all prior guests on the show I hasten to add. How does this differ when comparing enterprise to SMB? How does this differ when comparing SMB to enterprise? How does this differ when comparing SMB to enterprise?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with B Capital Group and Bessemer Venture Partners — February 7, 2020

SaaStr

And do have to ask one final thing from Aaron, I’ve got to give him so much credit for basically constructing the schedule here. It was in 2008 and it was when the little mini computers were the rage. And we had a ton of inbound SMB and enterprise action as a result. I think many people consider it too late. What a hero.

Scale 171
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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

This was 2008, right? Peter: Well, a lot of us start our careers as engineers, and a lot of our construction of a business is around the features, and around what the product does. And they were designed more for SMB. billion, the night before it was set to go public. Jyoti: I was working as an engineer in a company.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. It took me a long time to admit to myself that I don’t enjoy transactional SMB sales. Lindy Jones.

Scale 130