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Pods in Customer Success vs. Sales: A Side-by-Side Comparison

Sixteen Ventures

Pods, a collaborative team structure, have been around for several years but have become increasingly popular in both Customer Success (CS) and Sales, especially as the former has become even more efficiency-focused in the past year.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

SaaStr

You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. SaaS products get too complex to hack a product roadmap too long. You can smother customers with love alone in the early days, but as you scale, you need a seasoned customer success team and VP that has done this before.

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Aligning Customer Success and Sales: Bridging the Great Divide

Sixteen Ventures

You know the feeling – it’s a shared frustration among many in Customer Success. Another seemingly ‘bad fit’ customer is passed to us, and we’re left questioning the Sales team’s understanding of what a good fit really is. It’s easy to think: “Why can’t they just get it right?”

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Aligning Customer Success and Sales: Bridging the Great Divide

Sixteen Ventures

You know the feeling – it’s a shared frustration among many in Customer Success. Another seemingly ‘bad fit’ customer is passed to us, and we’re left questioning the Sales team’s understanding of what a good fit really is. It’s easy to think: “Why can’t they just get it right?”

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Every Department Must Recognize the Value of Customer Success

Sixteen Ventures

Customer Success teams continually strive to advocate for their significance, often finding themselves undervalued by other departments. Heads of Customer Success are no strangers to this feeling, and while the importance of their roles is crystal clear to them, they sometimes feel isolated in this perspective.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Best Way to Get Traction After We Have A Few Paying Customers?

SaaStr

One of the best startups I work with, the CEO had never done sales before. This is rare, but some founders trained in enterprise sales can pull this off. Customers and prospects attend them, after all. Growth hacking. How did the best start-ups I’ve worked at $200m+ today … get to their first $1m-$2m ARR?

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Don’t Hire VPs With The Wrong Titles

SaaStr

A "VP of Revenue" often knows nothing about inside sales or building a sales team. A "CRO" often doesn't want to do sales anymore. These folks rarely have any idea how to do demand gen, ABM, growth hacking, etc. A “VP of Revenue” for a VP of Sales job. Sales is hard.