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Selling into Startups 101: What You Need to Know to Find a Unicorn

Sales Hacker

If you sell an HR platform with a subscription that starts at 50 seats, you should scratch any seed-stage startups off your list. Additional growth signals to look out for: Recent leadership hires. Raised seed in 2013. Founded in 2013. Raised seed in 2013. Instead of asking, “ Who should I be prospecting into? ”

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Is Strategy Dead in Tech? The Winners Don’t Think So

OPEXEngine

They define a bold path to leadership, they make difficult portfolio choices, they allocate resources strategically and they build strong capital structures. By 2013, there were 1 million Android apps on the platform, and the number has doubled to more than 2 million since then.

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Guru’s Rick Nucci on using automation to scale your customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. With the advent of the subscription economy, support is increasingly responsible for fostering that relationship over time (which can lead to more long-term revenue). Short on time?

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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

However, back in 2013, in my previous career as a strategy consultant, I was doing a lot of work with telecoms companies in South Africa. By 2013, mobile penetration probably exceeded the 50% mark, and people who were up until then offline were now coming online with mobile as a primary means of accessing the Internet.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

In the past months, he has offered a pricing teardown to every subscription business you can think of, from Spotify and Netflix to NYTimes and Match.com.Patrick’s professional experience is diverse and curious: his first job was at the U.S. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

We’re proud to do our part in trying to lead a focus into this area and then fulfill that leadership with a real brand promise and real measurable outcomes for every one of our customers. We’re in the very early innings of a huge market and it requires leadership, and it requires incredible tech.

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10 Alternative RSS Readers if You Still Miss Google Reader

Neil Patel

Then, in 2013, Google Reader was switched off, and their popularity has dwindled. But as online habits changed, usage declined, prompting the search giant to permanently retire Google Reader back in July 2013. Consider adding an RSS button to your content hub landing page, too: Keep on Top of Industry News & Thought Leadership.