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PODCAST 121: Lessons From Survival Mode: How to Kickstart Your Business with Matt Rizzetta

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matt Rizzetta , founder of North 6th Agency, which is a communications and PR firm based in New York City. Years later, he’s got a thriving business that is not venture capital backed. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to get better at sales [21:37].

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10 Things That Aren’t Obvious About Partnering With Big Companies – Workday Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And the very first thing that I did, like any neurotic person is I Googled corporate venture capital. They might be sales operations challenges. We have one company in our portfolio that this is the third time the founding team has been together. That’s how much I knew about it. ” And not just open ended.

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

Point Nine Land

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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The Best of SaaS at YCombinator: A Deep Dive with the CEOs of Gusto, Amplitude and Plangrid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Sam : This is not my insight, but someone else says… I really do believe it, that the team you build is the company you build.

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Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scaleable sales team from the ground up

Intercom, Inc.

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.

Scale 118
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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Afterward, Patrick founded several businesses in diverse sectors, including tech, healthcare, and finance. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO. Patrick Campbell, CEO, ProfitWell.

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings, more money. We’re on iTunes. The result?