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

SaaStr

So mid-market, we’re about 40 to 50K ACV enterprise. And actually when we started, I see one face in the room that I recognize, Kurt Freytag, was one of our big customers at the time when I joined. So you were the first sales hire. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. We’re low six figures.

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Scaling a Product-Led Growth Model with 1Password, Apollo.io, Sentry, and Lightspeed (Pod 634 + Video)

SaaStr

“Are your investors happy with your organic growth rate? If not, add sales energy to compound the interest.” – Chris De Vylder How to define customer success Selling to enterprises is convincing an economic buyer that your product is the solution they are looking for. The next hiring focus should be growth marketing.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

If you're primarily targeting very large enterprise companies, it's very hard usually to use PLG as the only way to sell to those companies. Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. Are POCs part of the PLG play?

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Rachel Hepworth: Introducing growth marketing to Slack. Liam Geraghty: But first, how do you bring growth marketing to a high-growth company? Rachel now leads the marketing team at Notion, but back then, in 2018, Rachel was head of growth marketing at Slack. Here’s Rachel.

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

Dee: And you’ve worked in the industry for more than 22 years, so you have an incredible insight into the expansion of cloud networks, enterprise and data center technologies. Tim: I was hired in 2010, when Facebook was what I like to call a “teenage company”. That was actually a pretty tall order at the time.

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Top 30 SaaS Influencers to Follow in 2022

SmartKarrot

He writes on technology, enterprise, marketing, collaboration, and work culture. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. He is a speaker in top communities on inbound marketing, startups, SaaS companies, etc. He is active on his own blog, like a lighthouse of SaaS marketing.