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The 6 Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue

SaaStr

It’s one thing to invest in an area where only 5% of your business is today. Then, you’ll have enough folks and experience to put a small team on a new initiative / segment / market. Micromanaging Your First (and Second) Management Team. Bad operational model / misunderstanding the burn rate.

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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. How you should think about building a sellable business. Jump to highlights.

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3 Mistakes Product Teams Tend to Make (And How to Avoid Them)

SaaStr

It’s no secret there’s a tremendous amount of work that goes into balancing your business and customers. Having a functioning product team will make that balance just a tad easier. . Sometimes as business owners and teams we make assumptions. A huge problem most teams face is homogeny. What is their commute like?

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How to Maximize Your Customer Training Investment

Sales Hacker

The choices were simple: dive headlong into a decade’s worth of digital transformation , or go out of business. As a result, much of the evaluation, investment, and rollout of virtual training technology in 2020 was rushed, limited in scope, and poorly planned. And for 90% of customers, businesses are failing at onboarding.

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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. A business is SaaS or SaaS-like if it sells anything else software-related.

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How to Build Out Your SDR Function in 2024 with Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and Host of SaaStr CRO Confidential

SaaStr

How do you build out a Sales Development (SDR) function at your SaaS company? Establishing a baseline for successfully doing outbound with the existing sales team you have is critical before investing in a dedicated SDR function. First, they had six AEs before they started hiring any SDRs.

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Connect and conquer ? build your brand by staging events

Intercom, Inc.

Businesses have been giving prospects and customers “an experience to remember” for hundreds of years. Those investments have felt good for those in it for the ride, have raised an eyebrow for those on the sidelines, hitting budgets hard and somewhere along the line, have made business sense. Staging events to remember.

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