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Losing Sleep? Hiring Has Officially Replaced Cash as a Key Reason Startup Founders Are Up at Night

OpenView Labs

As part of our last three annual finance and operating benchmarks surveys, we’ve asked nearly 2,000 startup founders and leaders of B2B SaaS businesses this simple question: “What’s keeping you up at night?”. And the primary burden of your product and GTM execution can fall on an effective technical leader and proven sales executive.

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How LinkedIn Has Transformed The Businesses of These 3 Entrepreneurs

Buffer Resources

The answer for LinkedIn—especially for companies in B2B or career-related industries—is a resounding yes. According to the Content Marketing Institute , LinkedIn is the top paid and organic channel for B2B businesses. Latesha Byrd , CEO of talent development agency Perfeqta , has seen this firsthand.

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Customer Insights to Transform Sales Conversations

Sales Hacker

Sales customer insights. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales. For example, a minimum number of maintenance technicians would be critical if you sell a field service app. Knowledge and flexibility to engage prospects. and capture them.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams.

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2021 Financial & Operating Benchmarks: How to Become One of the ‘Haves’ of SaaS

OpenView Labs

The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. Hiring managers should prepare by putting together pitch materials (usually a 2-3 page deck) to give candidates a deeper look at your company and culture – beyond what’s on your website. You can start by defining what your ideal sales process should look like.

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?.

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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

. “The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one” For Udemy, investing in a B2B arm seemed too obvious, and too good, an opportunity to ignore. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.