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Top 10 Unexpected Learnings from Scaling Wiz From $0 to The First $100M ARR with founding CRO Colin Jones and Sam Blond

SaaStr

Radical Transparency in Growth Planning While most revenue leaders deliberately “sandbag” forecasts to ensure they can over-deliver, Colin Jones did the exact opposite at Wiz. Rather than seeing this as a liability, Wiz leveraged it as a strategic advantage — even in its sales team.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Grammarly’s CEO, CRO Confidential, Braze’s CEO and lots more!

SaaStr

Gartner: Business Software Spend Still Forecast to Rise 11.3% SaaStr 602: Secrets To Combining PLG and Enterprise Sales with Grammarly CEO Brad Hoover. ?. SaaStr 603: SaaStr CRO Confidential Presents the Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation, Quotas and Recruiting with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin.

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Top 10 Mistakes Getting to $100M ARR with LaunchDarkly’s Co-founder Edith Harbaugh (Pod 668 + Video)

SaaStr

They hired their first VP of Sales with a wonderful pedigree and experience at some of the hottest startups. Harbaugh had to sheepishly go to their new board member and tell them that instead of achieving their forecasts to go from $1M-$5, they’d be lucky to eke out $1.5M because they needed to rebuild the sales team.

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A Ten-Point Sales Management Framework for Enterprise SaaS Startups

Kellblog

In this post, I’ll present what I view as the minimum sales management framework for an enterprise SaaS startup — i.e., the basics you should have covered as you seek to build and scale your sales organization [1]. Pipeline management rules, with an optional stage matrix. Forecasting rules.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Recruiting is easier, but the things that don’t change are customers don’t care.

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The Difference Between a VP of Sales and a CRO

Sales Hacker

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

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Scenario Planning and Financial Forecasting: A Starter’s Guide

Baremetrics

To do this, you need to use financial forecasting and scenario planning. Financial forecasting provides insights into how your company’s revenue and expenses are changing over time and will change into the future. Together, they give you the information you need to excel at strategic management. What is financial forecasting?