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“Seed is Broken But There is More Seed Funding That Ever”: The Latest Deep Dive with Harry Stebbings and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Harry and Jason did a deep dive on this and so much more here: Intro (00:00:00) Seed investing is broken due to limited founders capable of triple-digit growth. This is due to several factors, including low-interest rates, the rise of venture capital , and the increasing popularity of angel investing. Is it sustainable?

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Report: The Top 7 Reasons Salespeople Lose Deals in 2022 (& How to Fix It)

Sales Hacker

Why your sales team is losing deals in 2022. 43% cited poor timing or insufficient data on when to reach out. 33% had poor sales demos. Recent Gartner research suggests that 75% of B2B sales organizations will adopt AI tools by 2025 to better analyze data and further develop best practices. . The bottom line.

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Intercom on Product: How ChatGPT changed everything

Intercom, Inc.

We chatted about DALL-E, GPT-3, and if the hype surrounding AI is just that or if there was something to it. a text-generating AI, and according to OpenAI , it can generate text in a dialog format, which “makes it possible to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.”.

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Here’s What Investors Look for in SaaS Businesses

Baremetrics

Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. A recent example of this is Instacart acquiring Caper AI for $350 million to streamline the online shopping experience. SMB SaaS companies tend to have higher churn rates due to their lower demand and less sophisticated needs. Transferability 2. Sustainability 3.

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PODCAST 54: How to Pick Your Next Company to Build a Great Career w/Nick Worswick from WeWork

Sales Hacker

The importance of due diligence in company selection. Showpad’s all-in-one platform empowers sales and marketing teams to engage buyers through industry leading training and coaching software and innovative content and engagement solutions. I would call it sort of class new market development. What You’ll Learn.

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Changing the Way We Work with Founding Partner Lan Xuezhao at Basis Set Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Today She discusses how everything is changing in the current climate, the rise of war-time founders, having teams work remote, and the supply-chain reimagined. We are a seed-stage fund that focuses on AI and automation. These founders have described their investors as resilient, as ambitious, as modest and diligent.

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The Data Points You Need for an Effective Account Targeting Strategy

Sales Hacker

At the forefront of this change is what we at Engagio call, Account-Based Everything (ABE), some people know it as Account-Based Sales Development (ABSD), and others call it Account-Based Marketing (ABM). We’re going to look at what data you need to develop an account targeting strategy and where to get that data.