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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. And if we’re doing the right thing, we need to scale it quickly.

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

Sales Hacker

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 million in 2013 to $115.9 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2014.). I said, “Holy crap.

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Christmas in July! Create Smarter Ecomm Landing Pages for the Holidays

Unbounce

With that in mind, Unbounce has teamed up with a few heavy-hitters of marketing to give you the rundown on how you can start with your holiday campaigns and landing pages today. (So, A mystery box takes an awful lot of the pressure off visitors looking for a meaningful gift. Is Amazon worth imitating, even on a smaller scale?

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable. This episode is brought to you by Loopio.

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It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It

OpenView Labs

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). SaaS companies now report 9 competitors on average , up from just 2 back in 2013. Today’s SaaS powerhouses scaled with a dated playbook: sales led growth.

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It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It

OpenView Labs

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). SaaS companies now report 9 competitors on average , up from just 2 back in 2013. Today’s SaaS powerhouses scaled with a dated playbook: sales led growth.

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