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Dear SaaStr: How Big Should The Addressable Market Be to Go into Vertical SaaS?

SaaStr

I try to look at two things in Vertical SaaS startups, at least when investing : Will everyone in the vertical / industry use it? The good news is, you can support these price points effectively with a very efficient inbound sales team, and/or a mix of self-serve and sales-led. Or at least $10,000 at a minimum?

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The Innovator's Dilemma for SaaS Startups

Tom Tunguz

See also: Innovator’s Solution for SaaS Startups. In short, new startups leverage a distribution advantage to acquire SMB customers at scale. Early on, the SMB customers finance a startup’s growth and enable the startup to build a broader product over time that eventually becomes more attractive to enterprises.

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Top 10 Resources To Help You Manage Your SaaS Sales Like a Genius

Incredo

SaaS Sales Models. Do you you know 3 most popular SaaS sales models? Choose the right one for your SaaS startup. Which SaaS sales model to choose for your company? (3 Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. SaaS Sales Models.

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How to Enable Your B2B Sales Team to Convert Inbound Leads

Sales Hacker

Sales Hacker has excellent resources for segmenting your sales team. Jacco van der Kooj’s sales organization and segmentation model being a great starting point. Pro-Tip: Do not over-segment your sales team. Too many startups try to over-engineer this process. Sales Organization Tools: Trello , Asana.

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SaaStr Podcast #364 with Figma Head of Sales Kyle Parrish

SaaStr

I think companies like Facebook and Google and of course Dell is headquartered out there had some pretty established large teams, but the startup scene of startups coming out of Austin wasn’t comparable to a lot of the Silicon Valley-headquartered companies, and so Dropbox was actually a pioneer in opening up the office.

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New at Intercom uncut: Watch our entire virtual launch event

Intercom, Inc.

When I came to OpsGenie, a small startup company trying to grow, we were looking for a product that would allow us to scale to be able to support customers worldwide. So I ended up running a customer success management team, a support team. We had a pre-sales team. Wayne Stewart: Yeah.

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