Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

P9 Panel on Hiring Sales Leaders — Founders Summit 2023 “You are going to fire your first sales manager!” — A lesson too many founders learn the hard way. The Founder isn’t willing to be the first salesperson Many of the best founders we work with don’t have a sales background and are either product or engineering focused.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The GTMfund team has been spread across the globe lately, big things happening! The rest of the team is playing catch-up from SaaStr followed by our annual GTMfund retreat in Napa. Because Innovation inevitably (but not exclusively) goes down as you scale. Solution: Build functional teams that drive innovation.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.” Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. Let’s get started. Pre-Startup.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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Kellblog

JULY 21, 2019

Measured the show solely by qualified leads for his territory, discounting company visibility and leads for other territories to zero. And it makes you think twice when you’re on the other end of that phone call – was the show bad or did we execute it poorly?) . Does this actually happen, you think? Absolutely. .

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Audacix

MAY 27, 2022

How to build a culture of security within your SaaS development team? In order to get your repeat business, they forget to explain just how you can build a repeatable, scaleable and consistent application security structure within your software development teams. No developer wants to create software with security holes.

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Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

And after you’ve mastered the sales process, Chargify is here to handle your recurring billing. A great example of this strategy being done right is Dropbox’s freemium offering , which allows “users to see how easy it is to back up and share their files using the Dropbox platform,” says Sujan Patel, cofounder of Right Inbox.

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