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Top 10 GTM Mistakes Founders Make Again … and Again with SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin 

SaaStr

What are the biggest GTM mistakes founders make? GTM Mistake #1: A VP of Sales That Can’t Sell or Demo the Product Mistake number one has always been an issue, and it’s the number one reason startups struggle in today’s world. They hire a VP of Sales who doesn’t want to sell or learn the product. Let’s jump right in.

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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. The same is true for your first 5-10 reps. Or it might not.

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

Sales Hacker

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? Not exactly.

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Only A Few More Days To Sign Up For Meet-A-VC at SaaStr Annual 2021!

SaaStr

The overwhelming participation by both Founders and Investors at the upcoming SaaStr Annual 2021 exemplifies this. You can still buy tickets here before we sell out. Liam Mulcahy, Director, GTM – Unusual Ventures – presenting “Revenue as a Byproduct: A Systematic Approach To Nailing Sales at the Seed Stage”.

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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. What you actually end up with is quite an unprofitable business operating with -25% operating margin despite having a revenue scale of more than $600M. What does this mean? That’s a big gap. … wrong.

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Top 10 SaaStr Podcasts So Far in 2021: Twilio, Salesloft, MongoDB, Zendesk, Hubspot and More

SaaStr

So we took a quick look at what the most popular SaaStr podcasts are so far, if you want to catch up! #1. “SaaStr 416: The Secret Sauce for Scaling to $1B with Zendesk’s Sharon Prosser, VP Global SMB GTM and Ashta Malik, VP GTM Strategy “ A really terrific deep dive on selling and scaling to $1B in SMB ARR. #8.

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Lessons Learned Rapidly Scaling a Team from 2 to 1100 People with Remote CEO and Co-Founder Job van der Voort

SaaStr

In 2021, they grew from 50 people to 650 people in one year, and now they have over 1,100 people in 170+ countries and tens of thousands of customers. Job still does interviews for everyone, director and up, but not for the ICs and managers of ICs, for the most part. Give them money to meet up. Treat people well.

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