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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. There wasn’t a ton of game film on key issues including growth, new market performance, nor the ability to sign and scale grocer partnerships. Grocery is the largest retail category in the U.S.,

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. A good idea is a good idea, after all.

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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. If you’re a leader, he says, don’t try to scale your job. As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close.

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Scale vs. Intimacy – The old trade-offs do not cut it in the era of scale insurgency

OPEXEngine

A widely held view on strategy in the 1980s defined two ways to compete: firms could pursue either a low-cost advantage (usually through scale) or a differentiation advantage (by building intimate customer relationships). But there was also a major drawback: an inverse relationship between scale and intimacy.

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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. What “customer success” looks like evolves as your company and customers scale upmarket.

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

Sales Hacker

Scaling sales during the pandemic. How to build a winning sales team. Scaling Up During The Pandemic [11:40]. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. It provides the information that helps me succeed, translating down into my sales team as I’m coaching and mentoring them. We’re on iTunes.

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The 6 Best Ways for Building SaaS Customer Loyalty

Totango

You can consider your customer to be in the onboarding phase right up until they start to gain value from your products and services. After all, you want them extract value out of the products and services you sold them. #2. Every interaction your customer has with your team is an opportunity for conversation.

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