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Scaling Up Sales Managers: 5 Mistakes New leaders Make (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. Knowing the common pitfalls won’t stop you or your team from making them, but it will help build the most important skill any manager can have: resiliency. Want to see more content like this? Overwhelmed.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Selling to Fortune 500 Companies (An Easy 3-Step Process)

Sales Hacker

At Ghostery, our tiny enterprise sales team has closed almost half of the top 25 eCommerce retailers. He gave each person on the sales team a $5,000 budget to act like a marketer. My approach was different than the rest of the team. Let me explain. The $5K Experiment. With the Fidelity campaign, I was bidding at $3.43

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. They can also help secure the data, reporting, process, and discipline a business need to evaluate progress so it can develop the accountability necessary to drive operational excellence. Live and die by the forecast.

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The Marketer’s Guide to Product Led Growth Marketing

User Pilot

Developing more self-service access and training for customers should come before making new hires in customer-facing roles. Poor retention and low customer LTV. I tell my team members that their gold standard is not whether customers bought a product, but did they recommend us? Difficulty achieving profitability.