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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.

Scale 141
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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. It shared the repeatable process to operationalize sales, particularly sales development. It made sense then.

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Ten Questions Founder CEOs Should Always Be Able to Answer About Their Startups

Kellblog

Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., If they are already solving the problem in some way, your new solution more likely represents an optimization than a breakthrough. How do they solve that problem today? Be realistic about this. baldness cures [5]).

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

Scale 184
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10 Companies Show you their Positioning Strategy for Marketing

Upscope

It’s the underpinning of your go-to-market strategy and impacts everything from marketing to sales, to customer success and the product itself. Positioning compensates for our over-communicated society by using an oversimplified message to cut through the clutter and get into the mind. Why positioning matters? Why should I give a damn?

Strategy 128
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The Ballad of Bull Cook, A Wacky Book

Crafty CTO

” That’s the book sales equivalent of 20 blockbusters, or 1,500 average bestsellers, according to my research assistant GPT-4. In this case, you would think that the rightsholder gets compensated somehow … but you never know. Now get this—Literary Licensing, LLC appears to have 50,000 listings on Amazon.

Scale 52
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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.