Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. The Apple and Google Play app stores give developers an instant marketplace, a gateway to billions of customers. Cloud computing is dominant.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

For Brex, the first one was having their CFO run marketing, along with a few other things typical fintech startups wouldn’t do, like outdoor advertising. A big, notable one has been outdoor advertising, which we can talk more about. Here are five quick takeaways: Break some rules. We’ve been really, really good at ground game.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One of the most famous lines from Citizen Kane is, “It's no trick to make an awful lot of money, if that's all you want is to do is make a lot of money.” Businesses charge a customer every month or year for use of a product or service. Markup is particularly used by mediators like ecommerce marketplaces — Amazon, for example.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

Where basically the real world is just advertisements, physical in-person advertisements, for things that you should really be buying online. Des: I remember an Alexa advertisement saying “When you come home, Alexa can read out your email.” Emmet: It ushered in the gig economy, the two sided marketplace etc.

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