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Top 10 GTM Mistakes Founders Make Today with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

If you’ve read SaaStr or have been around for the last decade, you might be familiar with some of the repeated GTM mistakes founders tend to make, but the world of hiring, people, scaling, and workplace expectations are significantly different today than they were before March 2020. Efficiency matters, but profitability doesn’t on its own.

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How to Double Your Magic Number and Increase Your Go-to-Market Efficiency with Sapphire Ventures

SaaStr

Go-to-market (GTM) design and efficiency are sometimes overlooked, but they’re a critical driver of any SaaS business. And how can you double your magic number without reinventing the wheel for better quota attainment or cutting everything? That means generally spending $3 in sales and marketing to generate $1 in net new ARR.

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Your 2021 Sales Enablement Platform Buyer’s Guide (+10 Tools to Consider)

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Here’s my guess: you’d see a GTM organization working together like a well-oiled machine. The mandate for sales enablement is to increase the effectiveness of their go-to-market (GTM) strategy by providing coaching, training, and introducing sales enablement platforms and tools. What is sales enablement? Training platforms.

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The Secrets to Turbo Charging Sales in 2021

SaaStr

Ready to turbocharge and increase your SaaS sales in 2021? In general, smaller companies, the channel partners, have their ear to the ground at strategic accounts and will know who is on a budget cut, budget freeze, their corporate objectives for 2021, and how a company offering will map to it.

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AMA: Hot Takes on SaaS Metrics with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Sales is much harder than in 2021. 2021 made no sense in terms of budgeting. The average public company today has over $300k of revenue per employee; in 2021, it was just over $100k. In 2021, many sales folks were marginally efficient. The most destructive thing across startups today is too low quota attainment.

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Advice Every SaaS Founder Needs to Know in 2024 with Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

For folks in SaaS, what got confusing in 2021 is that growth blew up so much in SaaS that the venture bar got lower. In 2021 and 2022, the money was a net negative, and what GTM organizations did was twofold. We can not hire more salespeople, increase quotas, and make more money.

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How to Navigate Strategic Change for Growth with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Video + Podcast)

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As a sales leader, you can’t own a full quota and manage eight reps. Should a VP of Sales hold a quota? But it can be distracting for engineering, product, and GTM teams. As a founder and investor for over a decade, Lemkin never looked at public multiples until 2021. If you can’t afford it, you can’t afford it.