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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. They can also help secure the data, reporting, process, and discipline a business need to evaluate progress so it can develop the accountability necessary to drive operational excellence. Marketing Lead Gen.

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The age-old sales funnel has worked fine for decades…until now. Why is the sales funnel alone, no longer an appropriate way of thinking about customers? Brian Halligan: Whether we all like it or not, trust in sales and marketing is at an all-time low. We’re going to hire tele-sales reps who are going to cold call.

Scale 107
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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The age-old sales funnel has worked fine for decades…until now. Why is the sales funnel alone, no longer an appropriate way of thinking about customers? Brian Halligan: Whether we all like it or not, trust in sales and marketing is at an all-time low. We’re going to hire tele-sales reps who are going to cold call.

Scale 50
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There are No Shortcuts: 5 Hard-Won Lessons from Zenefits CEO Jay Fulcher

OPEXEngine

“I’ve talked to countless entrepreneurs who are anxious about the next step—first seed round, hiring a team, landing a board member, etc.,” That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. As you start to develop a go-to-market strategy, “make sure to think through the process holistically,” says Jay.

Scale 52
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Sales Hacker’s Top Sales Trends & Predictions You MUST Be Aware Of In 2018

Sales Hacker

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. Top 2018 Sales Trends & Predictions – Strategic Headlines.

Scale 97
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How Companies do Software Training and Onboarding

Upscope

The next point is interesting because at Upscope we've been specifically told, during sales calls, that they're taking up our system so they don't become reliant on some all-in-one solution. 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.

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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

OpenView Labs

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. Related podcast episode: How MongoDB Scaled Their Open-Source Product with a Bottom-Up and Top-Down Sales Motion.