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Mastering Partner Marketing: What NOT to Do and How to Excel with Drata CMO Sydney Sloan

SaaStr

Pick your strategies, invest in them, and start tiering. There are usually 10-12 segments, so it’s a great alignment exercise with leadership. As a previous CMO, she knows where to slow down or speed up and where to invest in infrastructure to scale more efficiently. It won’t work. The threats aren’t going away.

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Making the Business Case to the CFO: 5 Questions You Should Answer

BetterCloud

For example, during the roaring 2021/2022 IT investment boom, IT has more latitude to invest without the strong involvement of finance leadership. Selling a SaaS Management Platform Investment to the CFO Before you schedule a meeting, you need to prepare your answers for some important questions. Now, those days are gone.

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The Top 10 Valuize Content Of 2023

Valuize Consulting

From digital customer success to enhancing customer intelligence, here are the year’s most popular pieces of customer success content and thought leadership from the Valuize content library. Watch Webinar 5. Play Episode 6. Play Episode 10.

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Building Resilience Through Efficient Scaling In 2023 with ICONIQ Growth General Partner, Doug Pepper, and General Partner and Head of Analytics, Christine Edmonds (Video)

SaaStr

Pepper shares that ICONIQ, a venture capital firm with $10B under management, made fewer investments last year than ever before. A Look Back At 2022 Performance ICONIQ Growth leverages quarterly operating and financial data from 92 enterprise SaaS companies. PST, to unveil the data behind effective scaling.

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Engineering Planning During Uncertain Economic Times

OPEXEngine

During times of uncertainty, executive leadership teams make more conservative financial decisions in order to prepare for and/or prevent any major difficulties for the companies that they lead. What products and features are driving the most return on investment (ROI)? Can this work be reallocated to other priorities?

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The Top 5 Scale-Up Mistakes for Startups with Dave Kellogg, Balderton Capital Executive-In-Residence (Pod 574 + Video)

SaaStr

As your business grows, stakeholders and your investment team will want to generate ideas to help you succeed. Continue prioritizing operational efficiency. . Make sure you build a team with a mix of veterans and up-and-comers that can help continue to push the ship forward. Mistake #3: Losing focus.

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Customer Success Operations 101: Drive Productivity with Purpose, People, and Process

ChurnZero

If you replied, “Customer Success Director or above,” you’re not prioritizing your team by spending valuable leadership time on administration when it should be used to build your team’s strategy and remove obstacles in their way. Again, if you replied, “Customer Success Director or above,” you’re not getting the most value from leadership.