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The 4 Enterprise Sales Misconceptions for Startup Founders

OpenView Labs

Enterprise sales is not a simple switch to make from SMB sales—it’s a completely different beast. I recently caught up with a founder I talked to last year who didn’t have the time (or desire) to deal with sales and wanted to hire someone to ‘”validate the market” for him. Let me be clear.

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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

Looking back on its explosive growth, however, the company realized just how badly it needed the valuable services of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Hiring a CFO. First: Why hire a CFO, anyway? . A CFO can help you safely manage your growth during times of increasing business complexity without overextending your runway.

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Customer Acquisition Strategy for SaaS Companies: A Complete Guide

SaaSOptics

For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. What role will marketing play in the acquisition process? . At what point will you introduce Sales into the buyer’s journey? .

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics.

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There are No Shortcuts: 5 Hard-Won Lessons from Zenefits CEO Jay Fulcher

OPEXEngine

I’ve talked to countless entrepreneurs who are anxious about the next step—first seed round, hiring a team, landing a board member, etc.,” Instead of taking a reckless approach, it’s critical to make sure you have some key building blocks in place before going to market. It insinuates that you can be reckless and take shortcuts.

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Ecommerce Terms You Need To Know To Manage Your Digital Business

FastSpring

A type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards partners (also known as affiliates) for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. Amazon Marketplace. Selling on the Amazon Marketplace can significantly boost volume through your store. Customer relationship management (CRM).