SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We recently hosted the Point Nine Founders Summit, featuring several panels and presentations from founders, CFOs, COOs, and sales execs on building early sales teams and hiring your first successful sales leaders. Building some level of repeatability in closing at least a handful of deals is the fuel that drives the entire business forward.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The GTMfund team has been spread across the globe lately, big things happening! The rest of the team is playing catch-up from SaaStr followed by our annual GTMfund retreat in Napa. Solution: Build functional teams that drive innovation. Thanks for reading The GTM Newsletter! Dreamforce in SF last week for our GP, Max Altschuler.

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

Great core/founding team. Thus, there is a good chance one or all of the founding team will be around, and in influential positions, for a long time. While the sales-and-marketing types will emphasize “its proven-ness” you will want to know how much technical debt there is associated with this old architecture.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. To investigate, Ryan Law, former CMO and cofounder of Cobloom, performed an analysis of six recent churn reports or studies and found that there is no consensus on the average churn rate for SaaS companies.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Over 3 million Apollo users, including rapidly growing enterprise ones like Mutiny, use Apollo’s lead database, multi-channel outreach, call recording, and analytics, to grow revenue and streamline busy work. If your sales team has 20 plus reps, we’re confident Apollo could be a game changer for you. The result? The market spends $2.5

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