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

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According to Crunchbase data, 95,000+ companies have received funding (globally) from 2015-present, totaling $1.3+ Venture capitalists invest in startups because they believe in the founder(s) and their vision. That means a majority of their investments are write-offs. That means a majority of their investments are write-offs.

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PODCAST 121: Lessons From Survival Mode: How to Kickstart Your Business with Matt Rizzetta

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I mean, we ran our business as a services business for 10 years, obviously with an eye toward the P&L as you should, in some cases. In COVID, that’s changed and your mindset, I believe, in a services environment needs to shift away from profits and more to preservation, to helping protect people. It’s not 2015.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

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Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Podium, an interaction management platform for local businesses, was founded in Utah and grew from five employees in 2015 to more than 300 in 2019 to become one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the United States.

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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

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IVP Partner Michael Miao explains, “The role and the scope of the modern finance team has changed dramatically in the last decade. This function can be outsourced in the early days of a startup, but it is usually brought in-house after Series B. Invest in next-gen finance tooling. Encourage bias towards action.

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Sales Stack 2022: The Tools

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With sales consulting, lead generation, and outsourced sales clients in the range of 1 to 1500 full time employees you can imagine we come across quite a few different CRMs. Pipedrive has been part of YourSales and many of our outsourced sales assignments since the beginning. ZeroBounce - Award-Winning Email Validation Service.

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Sales Stack 2018: The Tools

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These tools are what we use to deliver elite services to our clients and strengthen our B2B sales processes. This year we’ll be sharing parts of the YourSales outsourced sales stack tools as part of the list. Pipedrive has been part of YourSales and many of our outsourced sales assignments since the beginning.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

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We’ll also hear Andrew Chen, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talking about the changing landscape of customer acquisition. Adam Risman , a former host of the podcast, asked Rachel what made that point when Rachel joined Slack in 2016 the right time to invest in growth marketing? Here’s Rachel. Andrew Chen: Exactly.