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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

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. Total Addressable Market Total addressable market (TAM) is an economic framework to understand the potential revenue available for a product or service.

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Using Gross Margin to Score Your Product’s Maturity

OpenView Labs

As a founder, you can use this 84 cents to pay salaries, office rent, dividends, or invest in R&D. Operational efficiency and COGS. The pressure that growth puts on operations increases COGS, thereby compressing margins. Creating a marketplace does just that. This usage leads to increased vendor bills.

Scale 52
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SaaS Spend Management is a Program, not a Product or Application

BetterCloud

The rapid growth of SaaS adoption, expansion of the SaaS marketplace, need for cost optimization and efficiency, lack of visibility and governance, security and compliance concerns, and an increasing business focus on ROI and value optimization are all driving the increased importance of managing SaaS expenditure.

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CPQ: What it is and Why You Need it

Sales Hacker

Sales teams often struggle with configuration of price quotes when dealing with complex products or services or large product catalogs. Effective leaders know that investing in the right tools will help them streamline and standardize their sales processes, and make for a happier and productive workforce. 5 benefits of CPQ software.

Scale 94
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Key Takeaways from the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for SaaS Management Platforms

BetterCloud

With many organizations facing a growing SaaS portfolio and little to no addition in IT headcount, being able to automate a large number of SaaS management tasks with an easy-to-use workflow builder is essential to improving operational efficiency. The marketplace for adjacent solutions has grown.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

So it’s about operational efficiencies, productivity gains, digital experiences and making sure we’ve captured those. We’ve got everything from self-service all the way up to the enterprise. And you can’t do that on central marketplaces and these kind of central clearing houses. Nick Mehta: Yeah.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Product Operations

SmartKarrot

Organizations are realizing that operations are becoming an essential and foundational part of their business. It has become so important that businesses are willing to invest millions of dollars in developing one. If you are curious about product operations but unsure where to begin, this guide can help.

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