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4 Sales Recruiting Trends to Be Ready for in 2020

OpenView Labs

And according to Gartner , by the time 2021 hits, the software industry will have grown another $113 billion. 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. They want a product/service that’s doing something powerful.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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

OpenView Labs

As part of our last three annual finance and operating benchmarks surveys, we’ve asked nearly 2,000 startup founders and leaders of B2B SaaS businesses this simple question: “What’s keeping you up at night?”. It’s simply about which areas startup founders feel like they may be coming up short, not doing enough, or missing the mark.

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

SaaStr

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. What does this mean for startups and tech companies? There is no startup ecosystem to speak of. I’m from South Africa.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps. Cognota didn’t necessarily start as a software business. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. They wrote it in a way like the software existed, and it didn’t yet we didn’t even have one code of software yet.

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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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2021 Financial & Operating Benchmarks: How to Become One of the ‘Haves’ of SaaS

OpenView Labs

The new data reveals a similar picture for private SaaS startups. . But top performers have begun to far outpace their peers, especially for startups with less than $10M in ARR, and the gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ has gotten wider than ever. The game has changed when it comes to recruiting.