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The 9 Worst Sales Mistakes Founders Should Avoid

Point Nine Land

P9 Panel on Hiring Sales Leaders — Founders Summit 2023 “You are going to fire your first sales manager!” — A lesson too many founders learn the hard way. The Founder isn’t willing to be the first salesperson Many of the best founders we work with don’t have a sales background and are either product or engineering focused.

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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?”. This data point isn’t like our typical benchmarks. Accelerate hiring of internal recruiters.

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A Lead Gen Go-To-Market Cheat Sheet

SaaSX

Some founders are able to launch a product and get a bit of early traction without sales or marketing. The first is if there is incredible product-market fit and some virality or network effect built into the product itself. And others recruit experienced team members who have done it before.

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How to Work With a Consultant: The Ultimate Guide

Neil Patel

In a nutshell, they can give you expert opinions, analysis, and recommendations that can help ensure a more objective-based approach to grow your business and maximize sales – all at the same time. This includes: Questions about your current benchmarks , segment objectives, and overall goals. Sales and Marketing Consultants.

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Should you disrupt or create a category? 5 lessons from Gainsight’s CMO Anthony Kennada

Intercom, Inc.

When Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta asked Anthony to run marketing, Anthony he was jumping in at the deep end. Though he had experience in recruiting, sales and product, marketing was new ground for him. You look at traditional kind of funnel metrics and you can see, ‘Oh, this is the benchmark where we should be at.’

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The Ultimate Guide to SaaS Product Management

OpenView Labs

Inner Workings of Product Management at Product Led Growth Companies. At product led growth (PLG) companies like Atlassian and Intercom, product management may look very different from a ‘traditional’ SaaS company. PLG and Product Management: Tips from Sendgrid’s VP of Product.

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Sales Hacker at SaaStock East Coast 2019: Live Coverage

Sales Hacker

SaaStock is a gathering of SaaS Sales Leaders, Founders, VCs, and anybody passionate about building a SaaS business. And make sure you’re following Sales Hacker on Instagram , Twitter , and LinkedIn. So how do you design a go-to-market strategy that ensures product-market fit stays strong?