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How to revamp your lead scoring strategy for 2025

Martech

As we approach 2025, B2B marketers increasingly adopt data-driven strategies to refine their lead management processes and ensure they deliver sales-ready leads optimally. Here are some best practices to ensure your lead scoring model is both impactful and adaptable for 2025. Demographic profiles. Persona insights. Processing.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Databricks at $3 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Databricks worth $62B, sounds like a lot but: – Crossing $3B ARR – Growing 60% (!) and >accelerating< – 80% Gross Margins – 500 $1m+ customers 20x ARR doesnt seem >that< high pic.twitter.com/5qW7jeReQc — Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) December 17, 2024 So SaaS is back.

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Where are martech vendors finding their revenue? Let’s take a look

Martech

It is often easier to sell something when no one has it but many people need it. The bad news is that growth in a mature market becomes more focused on a few strategies, including cross-sell, upsell and competitive displacement. Many industries go through this. It gets a little harder once everyone has it.

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Insight from a $1.3B acquisition and 7 startups

Sales Hacker

Too often, businesses treat these as separate domainsone focused on development, the other on selling. Leverage cross-functional insights Marketing, product, and sales must work in tandem. Look for T-shaped players people with deep expertise in one area but cross-functional ability to collaborate across departments.

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The Compound Startup Advantage: Why The CEO of Rippling Believes Focus Is Overrated

SaaStr

As we gear up for 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay , we wanted to take a look back at one of your favorite SaaStr conversations with Parker Conrad at SaaStr. And come meet Rippling and learn its secrets to building compound products when their VP of Product Anique Drumright joins us on-stage at 2025 Annual !

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From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship

SaaStr

In the latest episode of SaaStr’s CRO Confidential Series, our host Sam Blond sits down with Ron Gabrisko, CRO of Databricks , to unpack the journey from $1M in ARR to crossing $3B ARR at the end of January 2025. Create environmentswhether through events, forums, or Slack communitieswhere customers sell for you.

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AI agents offer a glimpse into a potentially simplified future

Martech

Picture an AI solution provider coming in with a robust platform but little understanding of your specific market, your brand’s unique selling propositions or your internal data structures. Dig deeper: Will AI agents conduct the martech orchestra in 2025? Yes, AI can do remarkable things, but it still needs human expertise.