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5 Challenges in Moving Upmarket and How to Overcome Them with Salesforce Ventures

SaaStr

Going upmarket drives category leadership because you establish yourself as the company that the Fortune 500 logos use. Salesforce Ventures interviewed several sales leaders in the space — Gong, Miro, Monday, Okta, and Wiz — to get an informed perspective on the challenges and lessons learned moving upmarket.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Facebook Workplace and Slack ? May 29, 2020

SaaStr

Christine Trodella: When it comes to change management, especially when you’re talking about a tool that’s going to be rolled out to every employee in a business, it is critical to get executive buy-in and leadership buy-in. Oculus our VR gaming platform is now enterprise ready. We see them building Empathy Labs.

Scale 220
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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

These evolving demands from enterprise customers bring with them different skillsets customer success managers need to hone. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Since then, you’ve spent over 12 years in post-sales leadership. Finding the right skillset. So, I think it has served me well.

Scale 177
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Sales–Product Tension: The Secret to Segment’s Success

Andreessen Horowitz

And I just think there’s so much information that gets locked up when you’re not having this free-flowing conversation between all of these parties. And then it let all of leadership together, not in separate meetings where separate things are happening, analyze and commit to a solution. So that was one key thing.

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Scaling Up Sales Managers: 5 Mistakes New leaders Make (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. I give a version of this talk to all of my first-time managers in order to set them up for success as they start their leadership journey.

Scale 163
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The Marketer’s Guide to Product Led Growth Marketing

User Pilot

Your product has fewer features and is a scaled-down version of more Enterprise-ready alternatives. If it’s not, then it’s time to have a major discussion with your leadership team before moving on. Informative and insightful content from Buffer. Your market is mature, saturated, crowded and overserved.

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

Then, agree on how they will communicate and share information and learnings to transform your culture to one that aligns to DevOps principles. The competitive advantage comes from the fact that enterprises of all sizes want to see enterprise-ready software.