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Things that Used to be Impossible, but are Now Really Hard

Tom Tunguz

Nearly 10 years ago, I wrote a post about the minimum viable average contract value to justify a sales team. Most companies typically hire account executives & development reps at $15k or greater in contract value because the economics of lower ACVs aren’t viable for most.

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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

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. Instead, the pathway to success resembles a series of consecutive S-curves—the undulations of growth and contraction that occur in every business.

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Successes and Setbacks on the Road to $1B with Alessio Artuffo, President and COO at Docebo

SaaStr

The LMS market segment is big, and Docebo thinks about it in two folds. Between 2016 and 2023, you see the ACV (average contract value) going up and up. As a result, the contracts got bigger because they were working with bigger companies. Then, you develop a culture that has to permeate, evolve, and improve as you grow.

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Don?t Hire the Wrong Outsourced Sales Professionals: 6 Handy Tips

Sales Hacker

A viable and proven option is handing over some or all of your sales efforts to outsourced sales professionals. It’s true that outsourcing your sales to a third-party provider can yield favorable results. There are many outsourcing companies, but which of them can actually hold a sales quota and get results?

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GTM 92: Unlocking $100M+ Deals, Winning in Enterprise and Chasing Customers Not Competitors with Eric Gilpin

Sales Hacker

6:31 – Upwork’s challenge of the status quo in hiring contract talent. 34:33 – Aligning multiple go-to-market motions across market segments. 46:18 – One thing that is working for Eric in go-to-market right now. 34:33 – Aligning multiple go-to-market motions across market segments.

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Vertical SaaS Startups Require Different Go To Market than Horizontal SaaS Companies

Tom Tunguz

They trade a more narrow customer base and consequent reduction in market size for a competitive advantage in that market segment. Because vertical SaaS companies limit their potential market size by focusing on just one type of customer, they must employ a differentiated strategy to win disproportionate share of smaller market.

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5 Shifts to Move to Mega-Deal Thinking & Catch Whales: Overcoming Small-Deal Syndrome (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

And, they would do a multiyear agreement with us to work together for a number of years, and then we would renew that contract from time to time. We moved from using more offshore people, we moved to onshore people. They were doing some business, a certain kind of a run rate amount of business on an annual basis.