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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. After product/market fit, most companies’ obsession is not thinking about how to create their next amazing product. Product/market fit has a positive slope.

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Marketing to Developers: Core Values and Tactical Tips from GitLab’s Former CMO

OpenView Labs

After college, Ashley joined Twilio and played a key role in helping the company reach, engage, and convert its developer audience. She’s an expert on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to building successful relationships with developer audiences, software marketing teams, and technical CEOs.

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From AE to CEO: Entrepreneurial Life Lessons with Asad Zaman

Sales Hacker

Sales development school, marketing school, and more for your entire team. In 2016, he founded their executive search division. Asad Zaman : We specialize in helping companies build their go-to-market teams. We went from sales to the entire go-to-market org, practices, technical sales, and executive search.

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Slack’s Rachel Hepworth on bringing growth marketing to a high growth company

Intercom, Inc.

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation.

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How to use the V2MOM framework to align and inspire your B2B SaaS marketing team

Aaron Beashel

During his time at Salesforce, Alex was fortunate enough to work directly with Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff, and together they utilised a framework Benioff himself devised called the V2MOM to align and manage the Service Cloud team. It was game-changing for the company, and for each team that implemented it.

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Customer Acquisition Strategy for SaaS Companies: A Complete Guide

SaaSOptics

Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy. Identify your target market. Which marketing channels did prospects engage with before becoming a customer? You have poor product/market fit.