Sat.Dec 09, 2017 - Fri.Dec 15, 2017

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Premoney vs Postmoney - Which is a Better Technique for Negotiating?

Tom Tunguz

When negotiating your next fundraising round, should you talk valuation in premoney terms or postmoney terms? Premoney is the valuation before the investment, employee stock option pool (ESOP) expansion, debt-to-equity conversion and investment. Postmoney is the value of the business after all that. As an investor, postmoney is simpler. Despite the improved simplicity, I don’t think the industry is going to move to postmoney anytime soon.

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7 No B t Questions to Ask When Hiring a Sales Consultant

Sales Hacker

In our last article, we did a tactical tear down of when to hire sales trainer or sales consultant. In this post, we’ll explain how to find and hire the right sales consultant or sales trainer for your business. We’ll lean on our panel of experts and start by sharing their unique perspective, followed by 7 very specific questions to ask when interviewing a sales consultant or trainer candidate.

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Five ways to make your reps more productive

InsightSquared

As a sales leader, you’re only as good as your team, and it starts by managing a team effectively. It’s important to create a process to systematize the way your reps generate, manage and close opportunities. To encourage the right behaviors, you must provide evidence that shows your process is effective, and straightforward. A team of some of our top customers recently brainstormed ideas for how a sales leader can institute an effective, data-backed rep management process within their organizat

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Gauging App Engagement & Retention

FastSpring

One of the most interesting trends we see (as presented in the stats below) is a movement away from traditional websites to app experiences. People are choosing to spend more and more time with apps because they are personalized, intuitively designed, and task-oriented. Smartphone users typically have loads of apps installed on their devices, but use only a select few daily.

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Build the Case: Quantify the Real Costs of In-House Testing and QA Gaps

Underinvesting in software testing costs more than you think, and now you can prove it. This guide helps you quantify hidden costs like developer time, support overhead, tech debt, and lost revenue. Use the companion calculator to model your own data, and present your findings with a ready-to-edit presentation template. Whether you're making the case to leadership or validating outsourcing, this toolkit gives you the numbers and tools you need.

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12 sales kickoff meeting ideas & best practices to rally your team

CloseSaaS

In today’s fast-paced world, the humble sales kickoff meeting might seem like a relic of older, simpler times.

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6 Things to Consider When Choosing a Data Provider

InsightSquared

Guest blog by Eileen Chow, Director, Demand Generation and Marketing Operations at Evergage. Data may be the lifeblood of organizations, but it seems like there’s never enough good data to go around. As anyone with a sales or marketing operations background is all too well aware of, it takes a small army and an arsenal of tools to combat the ongoing challenges of data cleanliness, accuracy, and governance.

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What Is FastSpring’s Store Builder Library?

FastSpring

It’s almost 2018, and let’s face it: customers have incredibly high expectations and standards for online commerce experiences. Today’s online shoppers want to check out with as few clicks and barriers as possible – they expect a seamless checkout, they expect it to match your brand, and they demand fast (and successful !) payment processing.

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Why service is the most important part of SaaS

CloseSaaS

Too many startups focus on the first S in SaaS, but they forget all about the second one. When software and service aren’t equal priorities, it’s impossible to build a successful company.

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The Ins & Outs of Variable Pay Compensation Structure for Sales Teams

Sales Hacker

With increasing focus on grit and many claims of meritocracies in organizations across the country, why does variable pay compensation even exist? On top of that, why are sales people some of the few employees subject to variable compensation structures? I wish I could say it’s all about incentives, but the truth is a bit more nuanced than that. Yes the goal of variable pay is to incentivize people to perform higher than they otherwise would, but why is that necessary?

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Bring Balance to the Force

InsightSquared

Guest blog by Joe Rodden, Sales Systems Manager at Catalant Technologies. It’s that most magical time of year again. A buzz is in the air, the temperatures changing, and we’re all ready to see that grey-haired man we all know and love. Who? Santa?! No, obviously I’m talking about Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. I’m a huge Star Wars fan, so in honor of the new release (December 15) I wanted to write a post about several lessons sales ops can learn from the greatest films of our genera

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DNA-CX is now protected by Totango Shield

Totango

Your customers are your most important asset and their data is critical for your business. We’re launching today Totango Shield. Totango Shield provides comprehensive protection for all of your sensitive information and allows you to automatically comply with internal security policies and external regulations, including the new GDPR going into effect May 2018.

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How to prepare your SaaS for global expansion

Chart Mogul

Every SaaS will feel the pressure to scale, whether upmarket or abroad. Here are the most important aspects to consider when planning to expand to foreign markets. When the time comes to expand outside of your core market, how do you begin to assess your options? To start, you could move your SaaS upmarket — go after bigger fish, the higher-value customers who will amplify your recurring revenue.

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2017: The Year of Betters (A Video Recap)

BetterCloud

What kind of year was 2017 for BetterCloud? In a word: phenomenal. On the product front, we released 50+ (!) new features and enhancements , along with exciting integrations with Box and Office 365. Gartner also featured us in their first-ever Market Guide for Cloud Office Management Tools. We won a slew of awards too. Besides being featured on Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups list, we also ranked #8 on Crain’s Fast50 , #37 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 , and #13 on Crain’s Best Pl

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Why Everybody Hates Cold Calling… And Why That’s Good News For You

Sales Hacker

Whoa did people get carried away with the whole cold calling vs social selling thing this year. In this article, I’m going to explain why cold calling has stood the test of time, along with my most actionable cold calling tips and techniques to help you improve your win rates. And look, I get it. You hate cold calling. Everybody does. Everybody, that is, except the salespeople using it to generate millions of dollars in actual sales today.

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DNA-CX is now protected by Totango Shield

Totango

Your customers are your most important asset and their data is critical for your business. We’re launching Totango Shield today. Totango Shield provides comprehensive protection for all of your sensitive information in DNA-CX and allows you to automatically comply with internal security policies and external regulations, including the new GDPR going into effect May 2018.

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