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Ham and Egg: How Team-Based Selling Boosts Win Rates

Sales Hacker

Scott’s newsletter makes a great point: as buying teams get bigger and bigger, our sales teams need to grow with them. In part, my shift in thinking could pertain to not being the “front man” handling the pitch. It refers to two golfers who are playing as partners – one playing well, the other playing poorly.

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). Offensive bets typically deliver paybacks as business growth, product features, and developments that unlock new markets or consumer spend.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers.

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Words matter: Removing exclusionary terminology from our codebase

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog. Master” and “slave” also refer to the gruesome practice of slavery.

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10 Tough Lessons We Learned Building a Prenicorn Outside of Silicon Valley from Pendo.io (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Learn how Pendo built a product, team, and culture in its Raleigh hometown that could scale coast-to-coast and continent-to-continent. We ended up signing that contract in the uber back to the airport on the way home. It was our largest contract to date, kind of helps the other quarter. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tom Tunguz

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. COO, what does it mean?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

And whether it’s Algolia, Gainsight, New Relic or anything else, you’re being measured on value, not just adoption and at the same time, even outside of COVID, there’s all these other trends happening. Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends.