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The B2B Marketplace Funding Napkin 2021

Point Nine Land

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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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. Guidance shouldn’t just be around high-level attributes for the prospect like revenues or number of offices but should get into factors that are specific for your proposition.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with G2 and Gorgias — September 27, 2019

SaaStr

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. Before Hubspot, Ryan was Head of Marketing @ Salesforce (APAC) where he led his team to achieve 227% YoY net-new sales sourced through marketing.

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

OpenView Labs

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. This is most visible among publicly traded companies. Then it’s critical to sell, sell, sell.

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

FastSpring

And prior to that, I was an entrepreneur, and always wanted to go back to entrepreneurship but had a good thing going where I built a new revenue stream in this company, WTG, around corporate training, and that’s how I really fell into that industry and market. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business.