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Advice Every SaaS Founder Needs to Know in 2024 with Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

They discuss Sam’s learnings at Founders Fund, what the 2024 playbook looks like, hiring and motivating sales teams, and a handful of audience questions. There was so much budget flowing into B2B that it seemed like there could be 1,000 unicorns, even if 800 of those turned out to be junk. On the sales side, people hired way too much.

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The Top 20 SaaStr Tips to Getting a SaaSt Start-Up Going

SaaStr

Someone great at something core you aren’t: Sales, Engineering, Marketing. Great at sales. It just takes that long in SaaS and B2B, nine times out of ten. If you hire someone to do the first sales, you’ll never understand it yourself. When you go to hire your first sales rep, hire 2. Drive NPS up, and churn down.

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3 Leaders Share 8 Expert-Backed Insights For Accelerating Digital Customer Success

Valuize Consulting

In the rapidly evolving B2B recurring revenue economy, the focus on Digital Customer Success is more pertinent than ever. Effective Cross-Functional Collaboration Your Digital CS program should be directed by Customer Success but also requires close partnership with Marketing, Product, Sales, and Revenue Operations.

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How AI is Changing the Sales Process

InsightSquared

For sales professionals, AI is not only impacting your personal life, but it will soon influence your professional work too if it hasn’t already done so. Many of today’s forward-thinking companies have already begun using AI in their sales strategies. Strengthens Communication With Sales Leads.

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7 Tips For Using Customer Feedback To Build Rabid Fans And Make More Money (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. Worked as an AE and then a sales manager. Decided to go to business school, did that for a little bit and then came out in management consulting, a company. So, they’re a B2B piece.

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Even More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Unveiled!

SaaStr

Gainsight’s customer success software empowers companies to increase revenue and decrease customer churn. He then led product management for XDegrees and spent over five years rising up through the ranks at Symantec. His sales focused, actionable content made an impact on the audience. Kyle Porter Salesloft Founder / CEO.

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The Curious Case of Recruiting a Chief Omnichannel Officer

SmartKarrot

Any B2B SaaS company targeting growth cannot achieve its target without integrating all channels to provide their customers with an omnichannel experience. Now that you know that a new C-Suite executive is emerging in the B2B SaaS market, you must be eager to understand their roles and responsibilities. Like what you are reading?