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The Three Strategic Questions Facing AI Agencies

Tom Tunguz

Since writing The AI Agency: A Novel GTM for Machine Learning Startups , I’ve been meeting many companies who operate this way. These startups use machine learning to disrupt an industry traditionally dominated by agencies: law, accounting, recruiting, translation, debt collection, marketing…the list is long.

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Market Gaps: 10 Ways to Spot Untapped Customer Needs

User Pilot

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. How do you recruit your interviewees? Don’t stop there!

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. The exchange of value.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. The exchange of value.

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The Toughest Roadblocks When Breaking Through to $15M ARR

SaaStr

Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. Each provides their perspective, lessons learned and pro tips along the way. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales.

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Vertical SaaS vs Horizontal SaaS: 8 Differences and Similarities

Stax

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Ongoing updates and maintenance No SaaS company can stand still for long if it expects to attract and retain users.

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Sales Engagement: The Intersection of Sales and Science

Sales Hacker

What if sales reps can really harness the full potential of the pricy software tools we thought would turn us into sales superstars? Goodbye missed quotas; hello sales engagement!). When science and sales meet, sparks fly. RELATED: What is Sales Engagement? Sales Engagement: A Billion Dollar Market.

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