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Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! So how can you leverage that product’s success to obtain the valuation and funding you need to scale? Parse was a mobile app platform that got acquired by Facebook. That’s how early I was. We launched SMS a year later. But it worked.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If you haven’t signed up on the mobile app or whatever, it’s cool. Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team? Please sign up. We were wrong.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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The Future of AI for Sales (And How to Prepare for It)

Sales Hacker

According to Salesforce’s recent State of Service report, more than half of service providers will be adding chatbots to their lineup in the next year and a half. This is a start, but to stay ahead of the competition in today’s sales world, sales teams need to start utilizing AI much more than that. Salespeople are busy.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. SPIN Selling is essential reading for anyone involved in selling or managing a sales team.

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Five Ways to Address Complexity In Your Product

Casey Accidental

This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. Eventbrite was historically a 50% sales and 50% self-service business. This made for a great vision, but was practically untenable from a data or scale perspective. Sounds expensive. Let’s cover each below.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. In 2010, he joined DGF Investimentos, one of the top VC firms in Brazil.