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Two BIG Reasons Your Prospecting Isn’t Working

Sales Hacker

Stale data and lack of differentiation could be two major culprits. 1: Your Prospect Data Isn’t Accurate The Importance of Accurate Data in Prospecting Whether you’re nurturing warm leads or reaching out to cold prospects, having access to accurate contact information is crucial. . #1:

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It’s Time to Raise Your Debt Facility: Execution Tactics for Founders

Andreessen Horowitz

These diligence items are hopefully off the shelf (in a data room, usually coming off an equity raise) and lenders should sign an NDA to gain access to them. Companies should make sure to be upfront about any challenges they’ve encountered with the product to date, such as changes in performance (if there is actual data).

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3 ways SaaS CFOs can prepare for hypergrowth in 2022

OPEXEngine

In recent years, the CFO role has evolved from being guardians of the compliance, accounting, F&PA, and forecasting functions to someone who can view and understand metrics to make data-driven decisions for scalable near and long-term strategy, As you plan for 2022, here are three things to help you prepare for hypergrowth.

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. A CFO is a strategic partner serving as a trusted advisor, arbiter of financial data, and guardian against fiscal blind spots. Your data set may be small at first, but you can work to refine your forecast methodology.

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Create a Sales Plan That Actually Works (Tips + Template)

Sales Hacker

Lastly, a sales budget plan gives you a sales forecast for a given period based on factors that could impact revenue — like industry trends and entry to a new market segment. Similar to a traditional sales plan, they cover the staff, tools, marketing campaigns, and other resources needed to generate the target revenue.

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5 Shifts to Move to Mega-Deal Thinking & Catch Whales: Overcoming Small-Deal Syndrome (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

And so he said, “Well, why don’t you become a data broker, and you could leverage our solution to be able to offer our services not only for your business unit, but for all of the customers, the internal customers that your business unit serves? The close is basically a negotiation of all of the deal points.

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How Companies do Software Training and Onboarding

Upscope

This means they'll have accurate minimum usage data on SaaS apps companies use. I'd expect development tools to rise up this list over time as it's a huge growing market and the competitors are flooding in. Data from Chief Martech. Compliance visibility for auditors. Siloed data is a problem.