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The 40% Problem: Do Your Sales Reps Really Cover All Their Accounts? And Is AI The Answer? With Yamini Rangan, CEO HubSpot

SaaStr

Your sales reps are drowning in tasks that have nothing to do with selling: Data entry and CRM hygiene Proposal generation and customization Meeting scheduling and follow-up coordination Lead qualification and research Activity logging and reporting Contract management and renewal tracking All necessary. It’s administrative quicksand.

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How Quickly Does Headcount Scale in the Fastest Growing Software Businesses?

Tom Tunguz

In fact, this data bolsters the notion that management team’s top priority is recruiting, especially after the business has reached product market fit and capitalized itself well. Above, I’ve charted the headcount growth rate for 10 of the fastest growing software companies in recent history. They start around 25 people.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Snowflake at $2.4 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

AWS is seeing this, and so is Snowflake. Everyone is basically doing more with not much more headcount (see next point). #4. Growing Headcount, But Much More Slowly That Revenue. Headcount is up 29% year-over-year, but revenue is up 50%. They see the data in real time in terms of usage. Not none, just less.

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The 9 best tools for your early-stage startup tech stack

Intercom, Inc.

This is especially important for small teams, where you need to operate at a scale far beyond your headcount (without burning out your team by working around the clock). With the right integrations, you can automate workflows, share data between tools to keep things up to date, and create clearer, more efficient processes.

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Are You Getting More Competitive, Or Less Competitive? Hitting the Plan Might Not Be Enough

SaaStr

DigitalOcean is growing more slowly than its mega competitors Azure, AWS, etc. Yes, you may have to make some educated guesses and get some data from unusual sources. If nothing else, you can pretty reliability track headcount growth on LinkedIn). That’s a big, big gap. More here. #2. Are we gaining share — or not?

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Tabular: Turning Your Data Swamp into a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

Clouded Judgement

Tabular is a compelling data lakehouse solution, meaning it brings data warehouse functionality (SQL semantics + ease of use) to the data lake (cost-efficient and scalable). If you want your data platform to run like those at Netflix, Salesforce, Stripe, AirBNB and many others (i.e. Let's dive in.

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Why Self-Service and Product-Led Growth Won’t Replace Sales [Opinion]

Sales Hacker

Even if a product sells itself, it’s not going away any time soon, and now there’s original data to prove it. Sales still makes up 25% of their headcount on average. Sales and business development headcount increased by 45% year-on-year versus just 33% in non-sales roles (the full data is available here ). doesn’t it?