Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Dear SaaStr: Why Do Founders Hire So Many Terrible VPs that Mislead Them? I think it’s a combination of three factors: Trusting your team. It’s hard to scale if you don’t. Needing a team. You can’t do it all yourself. And Hiring folks to do something you don’t know yourself and/or haven’t done yourself. Because … then you don’t know. If you hire a VP of Sales and have never done sales yourself, you won’t really know.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Visa announced their plans to launch a stablecoin with BBVA today. Throughout the quietness in crypto created by the wake of the FTX collapse & the AI boom, stablecoins have become a large & very fast growing part of web3. Users clock 3m stablecoin transactions per day at an approximate average value of $5,000. But, the use of stablecoins extends far beyond crypto trading.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 2, 2024

So the growth rates of Cloud infrastructure leaders have been all over the place. Cloudflare is growing 30% at $1.6 Billion in ARR GitLab is growing 30% at $730m ARR Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud are on fire, fueled by AI But others are seeing more headwinds due to downturns in the “B2B2B” segment of tech. And MongoDB is one of them, seeing consumption usage down, even as net new customer growth remains strong.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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Groove HQ

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Ever feel like your customer support team is running on a hamster wheel? Your dedicated agents are working overtime, but those inquiries keep rolling in. To make matters worse, there’s little spare time to ensure that the information you’re providing across agents and channels is consistent. If that sounds familiar, it’s time to build a […] The post How To Build a Customer Support Knowledge Base appeared first on Groove Blog.

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Groove HQ

OCTOBER 2, 2024

If you run a startup or small business, you know the pain involved in losing a customer. You probably wish you had a way to better understand their feelings toward your business before hearing that they’re done with you. Customer expectations have only increased in the past few years. Many now look for highly personalized […] The post What Is Customer Sentiment (And Why Does It Matter)?

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