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Every Investor is Different. But Here Are 22 Reasons I Generally Say “No”

SaaStr

And your existing market. But if you can’t tell me the future (in your market) at least 3 years out … then it’s hard for me to believe in SaaS you’ll ever build a unicorn. billion, but Addressing a Larger Segment of the Market” That gives me confidence. You’re in sales. And/or Late.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. Then we went on to build another company called SteelBrick, another SaaS configure price quoting solution. And you can see marketing is the number one user of software, probably no surprise, many of you are marketers.

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4/15: an Uber-important IPO

ProfitWell

The same applies with sales: you can control your follow ups, but you can't control whether or not someone buys. By simplifying your sales process, qualifying your leads, focusing on the good ones, and dropping the not-so-great like a bad habit. It's often too easy to forget the power of networking can supersede any marketing software.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Maria is one of the top SaaS leaders in marketing, just finished up the CMO Vanna plan, which IPOed. 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. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Because it depends highly on the product, on the market, what the founders want to do with the company, and on the different types of markets here. 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. Customer acquisition.

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27 Sales Interview Questions (and How to Answer Them Like a Boss!)

Sales Hacker

when interviewing for a sales position? You answered the sales interview questions in a way that made you look like a winner. In this article, we’re going to review the 27 most common sales interview questions, PLUS the types of answers your interviewer is looking for, so you can raise the bar on your interviewing skills.

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

Sales Hacker

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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