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Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!

SaaStr

with Aashish Krishna Kumar, Head of GTM at Togai Sales Enablement 2.0 – Elevate Rep Performance with Divanshu Goyal, Sales at GTM Buddy Common scaling pains for SaaS businesses and how to overcome them. Straight from a SaaS CCO with Yellow.ai’s CCO with Shekar Murthy, Chief Customer Officer at Yellow.ai

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Right Co-Founder … Wrong CEO. Could That Be You? Be Honest.

SaaStr

Great product, driven team, good early product-market fit, great vision. If you don’t know … ask your angel investors and advisors. But one of you will be much better, or at least, much more interested in recruiting a VP of Sales, Marketing, Product, Customer Success, Engineering, etc.

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The 9 Worst Sales Mistakes Founders Should Avoid

Point Nine Land

It helps keep the product team focused on customer feedback and providing value in exchange for revenue. So, ensuring the founder(s) have a finger on the pulse of product-market fit is key to growing revenue, and it also helps make it clear who to hire next and with which sales goals/targets. One way is to get the timing right.

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The Stages Of A SaaS Company: When To Scale For Success

Chargify

According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.” Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. Creating a minimum viable product (MVP).

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

Her firm Betts Recruiting is the go-to agency for companies looking to find sales, marketing and client services talent in the US. She has helped a lot of venture-backed companies scale their sales teams and partnered with early-stage companies to find their first crucial sales hire.

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What does Peloton's IPO mean for startups?

ProfitWell

our good pal Hiten Shah, a master in the startup community—who shaped FYI, Crazy Egg , and Kissmetrics into the successes they've become, not to mention an advisor to 120 additional startup endeavors. How he thinks about product-market fit. Pagely drops a podcast episode feat. His process for advising startups.

Startup 40
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SaaStr Podcast #364 with Figma Head of Sales Kyle Parrish

SaaStr

As for Kyle, prior to Figma he spent over 5 years at Dropbox achieving some incredible milestones including launching and scaling the Austin, Texas office from 3 to 80 people and being responsible for growing Dropbox’s leading partner ecosystem. Before Figma, Kyle spent close to 3 years as an Account Executive at ADP. Kyle Parrish: Yeah.