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The Founder’s Guide to Developer-led Growth with WorkOS (Video)

SaaStr

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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Gross Retention vs. Net Retention: What’s the Difference?

Totango

To make it to the Super Bowl, a football team must have two things: a strong defense and a strategic offense. The defense maintains a good field position and prevents the opposing team from scoring points, while the offense orchestrates smart plays to gain additional yards and score points. Calculate it!

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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 other words, the partners balance out each other’s strengths and weaknesses. After all, why make someone forcibly talk through budget and pricing if they clam up whenever the topic surfaces?

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How Revenue Leaders at Box, Calendly, and Lattice Scaled From $0 to $100M+ and Beyond

SaaStr

What should you look for in an Enterprise rep vs. a Mid-Market rep? How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? The bad news is it wasn’t driving the results they wanted. Lattice had limited resources and a small team, which meant they needed to focus in.

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5 Tips To Closing More Bigger Deals

SaaStr

If you already have a few bigger deals under your belt, but most are smaller … a few higher-level suggestions: Hire a Very Good VP of Sales that has sold at your “high end” price point. More on that here: The $2 Million Dollar Man/Woman: How to Think About Scaling Your Customer Success Team. Continually raise prices at the high-end.

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Ten Pearls Of Enterprise Software Startup Wisdom From My Friend Mark Tice

Kellblog

Mark’s a seasoned startup executive, he’s go-to-market oriented, and he has some large-company chops that he developed earlier in his career. Here’s an edited version of Mark’s top ten enterprise software startup mistakes list, along with a few comments prefaced by DK. You should leverage backdoor references.

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7 Unique Challenges Facing Enterprise SaaS Sales Teams

OPEXEngine

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Blake, a successful salesperson, visits the real estate sales team and gives them a blistering motivational speech that has gone down in history as one of the best of all time. But in the world of enterprise SaaS, it’s not accurate. Today’s enterprises, by definition, are complex.