SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In this latest episode of CRO Confidential , Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with the CRO of Zapier, Giancarlo Lionetti (GC), to chat about Product-Led Growth (PLG) and Go-To-Market (GTM). Either way, the foundation for success in Go-To-Market starts with the right team.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing It’s no secret marketing and sales are equally critical to your go-to-market success. But sometimes, things go off track, and marketing and sales operate in their own silos causing them to be misaligned in the way they attract and acquire new customers.

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Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

Key Takeaways Companies investing in GTM strategies report a 70% increase in closing rates and up to 5x business growth by communicating value. Without proper product-market fit as part of your go-to-market (GTM) teams strategy, even the best ideas struggle to make an impactor money. The good news?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

Paul Mander currently leads all of go-to-market for B2B at Optery. Along the way of selling and supporting a product as complex as a Customer Data Platform (CDP), he tackled some of the more common topics go-to-market leaders encounter as they build and scale their customer facing teams. The answer is usually inertia.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2025

GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. The 5-phase framework that grew Outreach from $0 to $230M ARR Outreachs first salesperson, Mark Kosoglow , played a pivotal role in driving the companys growth from $0 to $230 million in ARR.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

How to build operational excellence into your organization at different stages of the growth curve. last year while operating at an LTV CAC of four and a half to one, and the growth rate was better in Q4 of ’23 than in Q1. So Kyle paused the Growth plan that was already in place until they got churn in a better place.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A great product, while necessary, isn’t sufficient to build a market leader and eventually a public company. Companies that win a market are just as good at Go-to-Market as they are at building great products. But to develop a GTM strategy, you must have Product Market Fit. Without it, you don’t have a business.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In this article we dive into a playbook for pricing across different stages of company growth, inspired by Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. Each growth stage demands its own pricing approach, and getting it right can mean the difference between stagnation and explosive growth.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Having led sales teams of 500+ at BILL and 800+ at HubSpot, Michelle has unique insights into what makes great frontline managers and why investing in them is crucial for sustainable growth. Effective team meetings and 1:1s. The reps go over this with their managers once a week. “And please take this as a warning from me.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 7, 2025

A long time friend and colleague asked me to sit in a vendor meeting. We’ve been working on developing new strategies to drive growth. More as part of their learning process, they arranged meetings with a few leading companies to see if these types of tools might support what they were trying to achieve.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So you’ve heard that product-led growth is all the rage, and now you want to transition from a sales-led motion to a product-led one. Some companies go really hard,” he shares. But you have to take a step back because you might underestimate what it means to implement product-led growth. Keep optimizing your current GTM.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 13, 2024

Prior to her role at Iterable, Adriana held influential senior leadership positions at Tableau, where she significantly contributed to the company’s remarkable growth from $250 million to over $1 billion, culminating in the successful Salesforce acquisition. Brought to you by IPS.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

So, here’s my step-by-step guide to building your own go-to-market strategy using the strategies I’ve implemented to build multiple companies throughout the years. But first, what is a go-to-market strategy? What is a go-to-market (GTM) strategy? But first, what is a go-to-market strategy?

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Hubspot

JULY 20, 2020

Other pieces in the series include HubSpot's Chief Customer Officer on Why We Need to Talk About Growth and our VP of Marketing's Content Marketing Playbook for Times of Crisis. As the rate of employment has gone down, the stock market has surged. The COVID-19 pandemic has produced a plethora of paradoxes. Inside Selling.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In a recent Workshop Wednesday, Tolithia Kornweibel, CRO, and Jamie Edwards, Head of Go-to-Market Operations and Tools, share how Gusto maximizes revenue so that you can do the same. Or if you’re utilizing a product-led growth model, this works too once you start to inject sales. Track everything.

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Martech

MARCH 6, 2025

Complexity exists everywhere: multiple buyers, products and solutions, markets and geographies, and direct sales versus partner-led sales motions. These documents show the entire organization how marketing and sales currently process leads, where the friction points are and which signals predict revenue.

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G2

APRIL 29, 2024

G2 CEO Godard Abel recaps the latest meeting with the company’s Executive Advisory Board (EAB), highlighting the opportunity for AI to drive customer retention, growth, and go-to-market strategies.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

With a background that includes leadership roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Lenovo, Fred brings a wealth of experience in building high-performing teams and driving revenue growth. So then it can help them to really move to be more digital and accelerate their growth as well. Fred Viet: Yeah. Partnership is a fun beast.

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SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2025

Co-founders Dharmesh Shah (CTO) and Brian Halligan (Chairperson) shared at SaaStr Annual the unfiltered truth on building an SMB powerhouse, pivoting to product-led growth, and why the “M” segment is SaaS gold. Come meet the best — including @HubSpot 's CEO @yaminirangan ! It's Where The Cloud Meets!

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Growth Hacking is a popular buzzword, but does anyone really know what it means? Neil Patel does a pretty good job explaining the concept and talking about its origin, saying that a growth marketer is someone who uses " analytics, inexpensive, creative and innovative ways to exponentially grow their company’s customer base. "

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2023

Let’s find out the go-to-market models Divvy used to go from zero to a $2.5B When people hear about Divvy’s growth, they assume Divvy must have skipped a step. If you can get wins, you’re going to get more wins. If you take losses, you’re going to get more losses. How did they do it? They didn’t.

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Martech

MARCH 10, 2022

E-commerce has been on the rise for years but has had explosive growth during the pandemic. Because of this it’s essential to have an Account-based marketing (ABM) strategy. What was already a high-growth industry has catapulted into hyper-speed as the world adapted to changing regulations, societal norms and customer needs.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The 10 Keys to A Successful Board Meeting: How to Make Them Great and Not Something Everyone Dreads from Ajay Agarwal, Bain Capital Partner. Over the course of my venture career, I have participated in hundreds of board meetings for seed and Series A companies, growth companies, and public companies.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2023

In the current economic climate, investors weigh profitability over growth. There’s a trend toward transitioning from growth at all costs to paths to profitability. If you’re a go-to-market operator, you know this new imperative is not an either/or. RevOps as a unifying force in go-to-market strategy.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

He provides an in-depth guide to driving revenue growth at your company and what to expect at each stage. The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. Thirty, 50% revenue growth.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2023

Whether you’re going from nothing to something or already scaling and thriving beyond $10-100M, healthy, sustainable growth in SaaS is on every founder’s mind. 0-$1M — From Nothing To Something Within each growth stage, Kimball shares three themes of advice. Building a go-to-market function from scratch.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Transitioning from mid-market selling to enterprise selling isn’t easy. In our first post we focused on how to be product- and market-ready, but that’s still only part of the solution. 1) Marketing: Does your marketing appeal to enterprise orgs? Customer and channel partnerships. Sales strategy.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 1, 2020

This is part of a phenomenon called Product Led Growth (PLG) , an end-user growth model that relies on the product itself to be the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion. Users invite others to meetings. With PLGs massive growth, many wonder if PLG and self-service solutions will replace Sales.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Hence, every business that wants to grow needs direction in the form of a go-to-market strategy. . A go-to-market strategy framework is a blueprint for growth. It’s a living document that keeps your teams focused and aligned and helps you meet your goals. . What is a go-to-market strategy?

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Salesforce

JANUARY 3, 2022

Predictable growth is the name of the game in the new year, and you need the right tools, tips, and techniques to make it happen. This is a year for growth, and it starts with these tactical insights. Create a single source of truth to empower go-to-market teams. John Fernandez, Senior VP of Marketing, Glia.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

How do you build a best-in-class go-to-market model to get to 100mn ARR and beyond? Iconic PLG companies share how they integrated GTM into their growth strategy to go from single digits to over a billion in ARR. Team: Similar to scattered data, PLG companies often bifurcate their growth funnel.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Guy Yalif is a seasoned B2B SaaS executive with over 20 years of go-to-market experience. 15:41) Scaling Twitter’s ad business and managing hyper-growth. (26:54) 26:54) The existential dread of being a startup founder. (37:56)

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Scaling Early-Stage to Hyper-Growth Companies With Ed Lenta, SVP and GM of Databricks Back in the early 2000s, people didn’t entirely accept that a virtual machine could be as good as a physical one. Is there a recipe or formula that will predict the success of a pre-growth, high-potential company? It was inevitable.

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InsightSquared

JUNE 13, 2019

This morning, the company unveiled several new solutions focused on helping revenue operations professionals make better decisions by equipping them with actionable, real-time intelligence that drives predictable growth. About InsightSquared.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Sam said he had no idea what sales would look like at OpenAI or how to go to market with their products, but they went for it. During her first week, she walked in on a meeting and learned they had oversold their license model and needed help undoing it. The reality was product market fit wasn’t quite there yet.

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SaaStr

MARCH 16, 2022

OpenPhone and AgentSync are two SaaS businesses with very different growth strategies, but the same ultimate goal: to continue selling while simultaneously problem-solving for current customers. How are you going to sell your service? On a deeper level, there are many merits of a product-led growth strategy. The Power of PLG.

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