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Building Resilience Through Efficient Scaling In 2023 with ICONIQ Growth General Partner, Doug Pepper, and General Partner and Head of Analytics, Christine Edmonds (Video)

SaaStr

Many of them said headcount management and spend were common levers they pulled, given the immediate and significant impact they have on spend. What are companies doing today to scale efficiently? AE and SDR compensation is another tactic to align GTM with what you want. 80% of companies are slowing hiring.

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SaaS Company Benchmarking: Leveraging Metrics for Performance Insights

OPEXEngine

In the many years I’ve worked with SaaS companies, I continue to observe a surprising lack of standardization of SaaS metrics and performance reporting. My experience reinforces the fact that SaaS business model variants and approaches to measuring performance via metrics are still very much undefined. The Value of Benchmarking.

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How To Structure Your Sales Organization For Maximum Efficiency

Sales Hacker

Reps were hired, trained and compensated to perform as an individual to hit a quota. Traditional Sales Organizations – Growth of headcount in sales was structured around revenue per individual contributor (IC). A few metrics to keep in mind for most B2B Sales organizations: It takes three months to ramp a POD to 100%.