Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The foundation models we use today aren’t just beating humans at Jeopardy, or playing Go at a supernatural level, or powering better recommendation engines—they’re changing and creating new user behavior across art, design, games, medicine, coding, and even human relationships. Here are the top 16 things we learned. AI today 1.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. After a career as a VP of Marketing and CMO, Jake now serves as president of MetaCX. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2020

Conga is changing the way the world works by modernizing, streamlining and automating your documents, contracts, and processes to make it easier to do business. Today on the show, we are incredibly excited to have Michael Coscetta. Who is Michael Coscetta and what is Compass [2:00]. The importance of consolidating data [26:44].

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

A Bain survey of sales operations executives, in partnership with Research Now SSI, found that only 43% of sales organizations develop plans for a recession well in advance of it. Data and analytics alone won’t get you there, but by following basic best practices, research shows you have a high chance of succeeding.

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

One exec’s greatest failure: “I was seduced by a build scenario … it turned out to be a very poor decision”. At MIT’s 2014 CIO Symposium, ThomasNet President Mark Holst-Knudsen said his greatest business/technology failure was building software when they could have bought it. 52% of projects were challenged, and 19% failed.

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. SaaStr is Turning 10! That’s my background. More power to you.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

And we now got to this point of one to $2 million in ARR across about 50 to 60 contracts. And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

It was all about getting the contract. Once you had the contract, all the servers were set up, you flew in your professional services people, it took six months to set it up, it took six months to train people, and the product sucked, but it didn’t matter. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. Seventy-five percent. That’s easy.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. He was also the co-founder and president of a company called TrendKite. The key inflection moments along a journey of growth [14:25]. Figuring out customer centricity [18:55]. The acquisition process [21:55]. What’s broken with compensation plans? [26:28].

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 11, 2024

But when it comes to those lengthy security questionnaires, the endless back and forths between you, your security team, and the customer can often cause deals to stall out, leaving your deal at risk and dollars on the table. For example: Revenue is driven by metrics like win rate, ACV (average contract value), and number of deals closed.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Why is it no longer to come into large enterprises with a small contract and expand? Having built numerous successful remote teams, what have been Peter’s biggest learnings in what it takes to successfully build remote teams? Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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