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By the time you're at $2-3M in ARR, you need a VP of Sales who's done it before

The Angel VC

For most SaaS startups, the VP of Sales (along with the VP of Marketing) is one of the most crucial hires they need to make. Unless you have a no/low touch sales model and you're growing virally (a.k.a. you're successfully hunting flies or mice ), someone needs to build a scalable sales organization, whether it's an inside sales team (a.k.a. hunting rabbits or deer ) or a field sales team (a.k.a. hunting elephants ).

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The Beauty of Bottoms Up SaaS Businesses

Tom Tunguz

One smart SaaS entrepreneur told me last week he prefers bottoms up businesses to top-down companies because bottoms up sales and marketing efforts enable startups to pursue hundreds of paths into a company. Unlike top down sales processes which offer a startup one shot at closing an account (a meeting with a CEO or VP), for bottoms up products, each employee is a credit-card-carrying-decision-maker.

Business 101
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Details can derail your deal

CloseSaaS

Ever had a sales conversation with prospects who seemed like a good fit and were really engaged with you? Then their 'engagement' goes over the top and they just keep asking questions, and more questions, and even more questions.

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Subscription eCommerce Marketing: Understanding (& Retaining) Your Customers

ReSci

Subscription eCommerce has recently hit its stride. From organic diapers to men's razors to nail polish, innovative subscription companies are popping up everywhere ' and they're taking the eCommerce industry by storm. One reason for such success? Subscription companies have customer retention…. The post Subscription eCommerce Marketing: Understanding (& Retaining) Your Customers appeared first on ReSci.

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How Investors & Strategic Buyers Evaluate Integrated Payment Strategies

Explore how integrated payment strategies impact investor and buyer evaluations. Payments are more than a feature — they’re a key to long-term success and market differentiation. They help SaaS companies offer seamless user experiences and efficient operations. Investors and strategic buyers assess these integrated payment strategies as a measure of a company's growth potential and sustainability.

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Startup Best Practices 14 - Slash and Burn Your Calendar

Tom Tunguz

When startups achieve hyper-growth, many of the key internal processes begin to fail under the strain of a newer, larger organization. So they must be reinvented. One of the most important internal processes, but least considered, is scheduling meetings. As Anne Dillard wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Most of us spend our days in meetings.

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Introducing Inbox

CloseSaaS

We're excited to announce the official launch of a set of new features in Close called "Inbox". These features include significant workflow and UI improvements around email, followups, tasks, notifications, and more.

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Steli Efti on Entrepreneurial Pain (Heureka Conference 2015)

CloseSaaS

Here's a talk Steli gave at the 4th Heureka Conference in Berlin. He shared stories of his failed startups and strategies for dealing with entrepreneurial pain.

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How to ask for—and receive—feedback

CloseSaaS

One of the best ways to improve yourself in sales—or really any area of your life—is to ask for feedback.

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Want Your Business to Make More Money? Stop Acquiring Customers!

ReSci

That's right, stop acquiring customers right now. For years, marketers have focused their time, energy and budgets on acquiring new customers. However, recent research has shown that it is five times more expensive to acquire a new customer than to keep an existing one[2], so why do so…. The post Want Your Business to Make More Money? Stop Acquiring Customers!

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.