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The Typical Startup Saw a 24% Increase in Sales Cycle in 2023

Tom Tunguz

Startups selling to enterprises have increased 36%, twice those of Mid-Market & SMB focused companies. Mid-market & SMB distributions skew left with up to 10% of businesses reporting a decrease in sales cycle during the period. The data analysis uses the results from the 2023 GTM Survey.

Startup 350
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What Your First 100 Hires Will Look Like

SaaStr

A VP to manage them, 2 directors to manage half of the CSMs each, and probably an analyst to support her in data analysis, etc. (4). Hubspot is a bit more SMB-y than the model above … but both are good comps. In Marketing, it can vary based on outside vendors, but I’m guessing 4-8 employees: VP Marketing.

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Stax Connect ISVs: Unlock PayPal, Venmo, and BNPL for Your Merchants

Stax

Nielsen Behavioral Panel of USA with 29K SMB monthly average desktop purchase transactions, from 13K consumers between April 2022-March 2023. Nielsen Attitudinal Survey of USA (June 2023) with 2,001 recent purchasers (past 4 weeks) from SMB merchants, including 1,000 PayPal transactions & 1,001 non-PayPal transactions.

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The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It’s an SMB SaaS company in the healthcare technology vertical. My velocity lane, PatientPop’s SMB SaaS, eight units a month, $13,500 contract. If you’re an SMB SaaS business, I would recommend hiring SMB SaaS salespeople. I’m not a data guy, so that might not be right. Hey everyone.

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The Optimal Price to Maximize Sales Efficiency for a SaaS Startup

Tom Tunguz

Do million-dollar enterprise price points and field sales people create more efficient sales organizations than content-marketing-driven SMB startups? The one challenge of this data analysis is the sample size is relatively small. I hope to refine it over time as more SaaS companies go public and contribute to the data set.

Pricing 100
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Who’s who: Understanding your business with customer segmentation

Intercom, Inc.

Sales: Be able to route prospects to our self-service flow or the most appropriate team within Sales, e.g. startups, SMB, MME, based on well-defined customer segments. You can’t find email lists using Job-to-be-Done, but you can find ones for B2C subscription businesses that have a high volume of website traffic. Drive internal adoption.

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Say Hello to My New AI Marketer: How Gen AI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales

Andreessen Horowitz

The more successful approach for taking a product from prosumer to enterprise is to use content as a wedge and then get into the workflow, with tools to assist with customer data analysis, segmentation and planning, brand resonance, and more. make a product sticky. sales leads vs. products sold).

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