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The 6 Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue

SaaStr

Then, you’ll have enough folks and experience to put a small team on a new initiative / segment / market. Micromanaging Your First (and Second) Management Team. Bad operational model / misunderstanding the burn rate. NPS is A Great Core Metric. Leave the pipedreams for $100m in ARR. The “I Give Up” VP Hire.

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Playbook to Achieving CEO-CRO Harmony with Algolia CEO Bernadette Nixon and CRO Michelle Adams (Pod 610 + Video)

SaaStr

The success of an executive team often depends as much on their interpersonal harmony as their professional expertise. How does a team establish rapport with one another? Algolia’s Bernadette Nixon (Chief Executive Officer) and Michelle Adams (Chief Revenue Officer) have spent the past few years developing this relational toolbox.

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The 5 P’s of Sales Leadership w. VP of Sales at Crunchbase

Sales Hacker

Ang shares her 5 P’s of Sales Leadership: Professionalism Preparation Process Performance Play More on these below. Ang McManamon is a tenured sales leader who puts culture first, helps build high performing SaaS teams, and executes with urgency across all areas of an organization. How did you bootstrap your career?

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The biggest challenges facing support teams right now (and how to solve them)

Intercom, Inc.

Most support teams have seen an influx of support queries since COVID-19 hit – and those issues are more complex than ever. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges. Download your copy of the thought leadership paper now. Sound familiar?

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The Pandemic Phase I Stress Test is Over. Is Your IT Team Ready for Phase II?

OpenView Labs

IT teams scrambled to respond to the work-from-home lockdown by developing new procedures for provisioning home equipment, deploying new collaboration tools, beefing up their VPN networks and redesigning their service desk support procedures. There’s a Difference. If Phase I was a sprint, Phase II will be a marathon.

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CRO Confidential: The Hangover’s Over: 5 Ways to Get Your SaaS Revenue Back On Track with Gong’s SVP Sales and Founders Fund

SaaStr

The underperformers who aren’t putting in the effort get a conversation, and if things don’t change, it’s not a good fit. Jameson and Sam also recommend that across the org: sales, marketing and CS — the early and sooner you can get the entire team re-focused on creating their own pipeline, the better. Guess what?

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How to Transform Customer Success Into a Profit Center with Metrics and Forecasting

ChurnZero

Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. Customer Success teams that own one or both of these revenue sources get viewed as a profit center by the business. Choose Metrics that Emphasize Your Value.