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Scaling Your Startup 10x From $20M to $200M with Sapphire, Lightspeed, TripActions’ CRO, and 6Sense’s CMO (Pod 522 + Video)

SaaStr

When you think of scaling up, many things may come to mind, like hiring, culture, marketing, and sales. The go-to-market segment worked together on key metrics across the revenue board. Skilled development and enablement: You can’t disrupt a market by hiring people from legacy vendors hoping they’ll figure it out.

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The Difference Between a VP of Sales and a CRO

Sales Hacker

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I started a software company in college to make it easy to update websites called Content Management Software Now, and I had this idea for Pardot, I wanted to make it easy for marketers to run campaigns online and measure their results. Let’s be 50/50 co-founders and let’s start a company in the sales space.”

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Stop Following These 10 Terrible Pieces of SaaS Advice with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin (SaaStr Podcast 682)

SaaStr

2 “Give the VP of Sales more time.” You can’t always expect a great VP of Sales to double sales in 30-60-90 days. But you have to see progress in one sales cycle. If, in one sales cycle, things aren’t improving on several core metrics, they never will. The best VPs of Sales hit the ground running.

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170 Sales Terms From A – Z: The Updated Glossary of B2B Sales Definitions

Sales Hacker

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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“Land, Expand, Explode: How to Win the Long-Game in SaaS” Egnyte Chief Customer Officer and Co-Founder Rajesh Ram (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

He will also provide insights on the differences between commercial and enterprise customers and the key metrics to keep an eye on as you grow your business. So what is our target market? And we said we’re not going to focus on these other segments, which is real large enterprises and also consumers. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Your Roadmap to Go from SDR to CRO (and How to Succeed at Every Step Along the Way)

Sales Hacker

There’s no single path to the top in Sales. Sure, I didn’t actually start in sales and work directly up that path. You may decide that you really like being a VP of Sales and want to keep doing that role at a larger and larger scale, or at new companies. Individual Contributor to Team Leader/Manager.

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