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

SaaStr

As Managing Director of Salesforce Ventures, Nowi Kallen , shared at last week’s Workshop Wednesday, there are five main challenges of moving upmarket and tips to follow if you want to succeed at Enterprise sales in today’s macro environment. They said, “ The growth is amazing, but we’ll have to be able to sell into the Enterprise.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Finding the right skillset. Dee: Fantastic.

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What’s New At WorkOS and What It Takes To Be “Enterprise-Ready” in SaaS with WorkOS CEO and Founder Michael Grinich

SaaStr

In this new SaaStr series called “What’s new at…,” Jason Lemkin chats with WorkOS CEO and founder Michael Grinich about what it takes to be Enterprise ready in SaaS, building vs. buying, and who the stakeholders are in a B2D motion. They offer all the features you need to sell to Enterprise customers. It’s not an option.

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Totango Welcomes Seasoned Industry Leaders to Executive Team

Totango

Today, I am pleased to share that we are adding three new executives to the Totango leadership team: Hamutal Russo, CFO; Bob Crissman, SVP of Channels; and Anne Ting, SVP of Marketing. Anne is a strategy, marketing and product leader with nearly 20 years of experience building enterprise-ready, scalable platforms.

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

Andreessen Horowitz

Sales wants more features. In this conversation recorded at ELC 2023, Segment’s former CRO Joe Morrissey and former chief product development officer Tido Carriero discuss how they turned sales-product tension into a successful $3.2B The problem is the sales team. The sales team don’t know how to sell the product.

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. These metrics will vary by company, but can include elements such as the following: Sales Funnel. Productivity Per Sales Rep. Marketing Lead Gen. Are you filling the top of the funnel cost-effectively?

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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. In this talk, CircleCI VP of Revenue Jane Kim will talk about the 5 mistakes all new sales leaders make. Sorry, I’m a sales leader, I can’t help it. SaaS = Software that scales.

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