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4 Sales Recruiting Trends to Be Ready for in 2020

OpenView Labs

So if scaling your sales organization is a priority in 2020, here are the things you need to be aware of to make sure you do so successfully. An increase in competitiveness in the marketplace means candidates have more choices than ever. They want a product/service that’s doing something powerful.

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Centralization Vs. Decentralization in Marketplaces and Scaling Companies

Casey Accidental

They have also heard about marketplaces that have given all of the power to the supply, and also marketplaces where supply has no power. These issues usually arise in two areas, which particularly, but not exclusively, affect marketplaces. Or do people report into managers in HQ? One is around local expansion.

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The B2B Marketplace Funding Napkin 2021

Point Nine Land

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. How’s it guys?

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Losing Sleep? Hiring Has Officially Replaced Cash as a Key Reason Startup Founders Are Up at Night

OpenView Labs

The market need for SaaS products has exploded and investment in SaaS companies has accelerated, requiring more talent to grow and scale. And the primary burden of your product and GTM execution can fall on an effective technical leader and proven sales executive. Accelerate hiring of internal recruiters.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. What “customer success” looks like evolves as your company and customers scale upmarket.

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Six Reasons You Should NOT Create a Category

SaaStr

According to Harvard Business Review , companies that were instrumental in creating their categories accounted for 53 percent of incremental revenue growth and 74 percent of incremental market capitalization growth. For startups creating categories, the value of dominating a market while scaling can result in operational benefits as well.

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