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Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more.

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CAC Payback Basics: What It Is, How to Calculate It and Why It Matters

OpenView Labs

This includes expenses like ad spend, creative development, and commissions along with more substantial overhead expenses such as salaries and rent. While CAC is accepted as a cost of doing business, it should not be a blank check for your sales & marketing team. Benchmarking: CAC Payback Goals. Drive Funnel Efficiencies.

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Jul 27 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Head of Customer Success Location: San Francisco, CA, US Organization: Turn/River Capital As a Head of Customer Success, you will work with the leadership teams at 2 to 3 of the Turn/River portfolio companies to develop and implement retention and growth strategies and build operational best practices.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

I had never quit a job before unless it was due to a promotion or a better opportunity. Founded Why Sales Network, a global sales training company to provide valuable content to develop the next generation of leaders. Invest in your development internally and externally. Your career is what you make of it. Joyce Johnson.

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Prior to that, he led sales teams all over the country, and we’re incredibly excited to have on the show. And every week we’re onboarding three to four to five teams. But I went in and their executive team that came in blew me away.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 3, 2019

SaaStr

Episode 229: Manny Medina is the Founder & CEO @ Outreach, the market leading sales engagement platform that turns your team into a revenue-driving machine. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Manny made his way to found the leader in sales engagement from product management at Amazon and Business Development @ Microsoft? *

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DeepSeek vs Claude vs Mistral: Top GPT Competitors in 2025

How To Buy Saas

In practice, SaaS teams use LLMs for chatbots, document summarization, code assistance, and more, so factors like cost, licensing, and safety all matter. Real-world SaaS use : Developers use LLMs for everything from automated customer support to personalized content feeds. Mistrals models are fully open-source and highly efficient.