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Employee Spotlight: Andrea Nelson, People Operations Champion

FastSpring

A: I’m the VP of People & Culture at FastSpring. My background is actually in engineering & document control and my first job was at an aerospace company. The plan from the beginning was to have me come on board and manage the engineering doc and data function while also helping to facilitate payroll, facilities, and HR.

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The ugly side of growth – how to scale your sales team sustainably

Intercom, Inc.

As the Senior Vice President of Sales for Pipedrive , she’s currently responsible for building nimble sales teams who drive sustainable revenue. In general, growth is a good problem to have – it means you’ve found some measure of product market fit and you’re generating real revenue from active users.

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A Friendly Reminder to Cost-Cutters: Keep the Company a Great Place to Work for Survivors

Kellblog

Or product relative to engineering? With capital scarce and expensive, with companies increasingly trapped in Schrödinger’s startup paradox , and with more startups than ever focused on positive cashflow and The Rule of 40 , it’s safe to say that Silicon Valley is still very much in a cost-cutting mood. Why do we forget this?

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Why SaaS Companies Are Embracing Owned Media and How to Make it Work for You

Sales Hacker

Before launching their product or even telling the world what it did, AudiencePlus set their brand and media engine in motion. Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 50,000 revenue professionals weekly to scale their companies and careers. On owned media, digital advertising was once the name of the game. What is it?

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Being “Product-Led” in 2023 Means Product-Led Sales

Chart Mogul

Esben Friis-Jensen, Co-Founder at Userflow , Nicholas Mills, President at Pitch , and Seth DeHart, Advisor at PointNine , joined our panel discussion hosted by Sara Archer, VP of Sales at ChartMogul. – Nicholas Mills, President, Pitch The shift to subscription-based models has changed how a company operates.

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PODCAST 117: The Tools You Need If You Want to Succeed at Scale with Michael Coscetta

Sales Hacker

Today on the show, we are incredibly excited to have Michael Coscetta. Michael is a member of Revenue Collective, but perhaps most importantly, he’s the chief sales and strategy officer for Compass, that fast-growing real estate behemoth. Who is Michael Coscetta and what is Compass [2:00]. The importance of consolidating data [26:44].

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Your Product Sells Itself. Now Hire Sales.

OpenView Labs

Sales now accounts for about 7% of the company’s headcount–a similar share of their workforce as marketing or product management. In a 2019 podcast interview , President Jay Simons emphasized that Atlassian has a low touch sales model. The rest of their headcount only grew by 31%. This is a good thing.