Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2025

GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. acquisition and 7 startups The most successful companies understand that product and go-to-market strategy must be deeply interconnected. If not, a product-led growth (PLG) strategy may not be the right fit.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2025

In the latest episode of our SaaStr CRO Confidential podcast, host Sam Blond sat down with Lindsey Scrase, COO of Checkr (and former CRO), to discuss her tactics for driving growth at the background screening unicorn. Checkr’s go-to-market strategy was already well-established when Lindsay joined in 2022.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Going Enterprise Is a Company-Wide Decision The #1 mistake? Thinking enterprise is just a go-to-market play. You have to go all in.” The Enterprise Pricing Journey Is All About Unbundling Stripe learned this the hard way. pricing was brilliant for SMBs but completely wrong for enterprise.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 14, 2024

Holly Chen is the Managing Partner of ExponentialX, a Marketing and Growth Advisory Collective for high-growth SaaS startups, advising companies like Miro, Loom, ServiceNow, Appsflyer in their growth journeys. She was the Head of Growth at Google Store and Global Head of Google B2B Websites. Kearny and the UN.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 11, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. For example, when a rep improved ACV by 36% by packaging pricing differently, we didn’t stop there.

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Martech

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Identifying profitable market segments : Explore how to use AI to assess segment characteristics, including size, growth rate and profitability, along with competition and your company objectives, to determine the most lucrative target segments. I would like the LLM to also include a section on new segments that we may have overlooked.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Discussed in this Episode: Applying the concept of Price’s Law to identify and maximize the impact of top talent in an organization. Go-to-market strategies for vertical SaaS companies to win in their market, such as going hyperlocal and focusing on multi-product. Brought to you by Vanta.

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Martech

JULY 3, 2023

Looking forward to the second half of 2023, we are recalibrating go-to-market plans for what I call the “next normal.” The category creation aspiration failure Popularized by evangelists from high-growth point solutions, this advice to create a new category was both the least achievable and most costly.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. Reflection across go-to-market trends, but also on the investment front (not to mention community !).

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Martech

JUNE 3, 2024

As companies prioritize “efficient growth,” vertical software has gained prominence due to its lower customer acquisition costs, higher expansion sales and stronger gross retention than its horizontal counterparts. In 2024, under the banner of “efficient growth,” vertical software is gaining prominence.

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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. The SMB market offered a sweet spot between enterprise complexity and consumer scale. Build expansion revenue.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2018

In this blueprint, we take a tactical approach on how to build a go to market strategy. This will then help you diversify your revenue, make your business more resilient to economic setbacks and help you plan for growth. 5 Steps To Building Your Go To Market Strategy. The SMB segment—going upstream vs. downstream.

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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2024

GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies. Why Ecosystem-Led Growth for GTM? Let’s get into it.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2024

Bob Moore is Co-Founder and CEO of Crossbeam, an Ecosystem-Led Growth (ELG) platform that helps companies use their partner ecosystems to generate leads, close deals, and grow faster. Discussed in this Episode: Ecosystem-led growth is about leveraging partnerships to make your go-to-market teams more successful.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2024

Elizabeth Pemmerl currently serves as GitHub’s Chief Revenue Officer, where she oversees all facets of the company’s go-to-market strategy and customer engagement, including sales, support, and operations. Strategies for pricing new products and cross-selling within an existing customer base.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2023

If you don’t want your company defeated by change, you need to adapt your Go-To-Market strategy at every stage of growth. Managing Partner of CIPIO Partners, Rolan Dennert, shares how companies need to readjust and rethink GTM fit — and even product market fit — from time to time. Growth was slowing.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insight into where growth comes from and how to structure your sales approach to capture that growth. Traditional Sales Growth vs SaaS Sales Growth. Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. SaaS Growth Rate.

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2022

So how did PayFit achieve such explosive growth? You need volume, not top expertise or the high salary price tag that comes with enterprise AEs. . However, you should still be selective in choosing your talent pool, ensure there is room for growth at your company, and train your SMB reps very well. .

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

Codium is one of the fastest-growing startups in the AI coding assistant space, having scaled its go-to-market team from 3 to 75 in just under a year. Hypergrowth Requires Aggressive but Smart Hiring: Codium scaled from 3 to 75 go-to-market hires in under a year, an astonishing pace for any startup. Key Growth Drivers 1.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

These early conversations helped shape Databricks product, pricing, and go-to-market strategy. Leveraging Investors for Growth Another underutilized growth channel? Enterprise sales require a field presence, strategic account management, and a drive to go where your customers are. Talk to users. Ron recalls.

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SaaStr

JULY 24, 2023

Instead of looking at those who are struggling, let’s take a look at the epic growth story of MongoDB, a company crushing it in 2023. in ARR, 29% overall growth, and is worth $29B. 1 — 2022 Saw A Slowdown In Usage Growth, But 2023 Saw A Potential Bounce Back. If you’re growing at 50%, you want to see at least 25% growth.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Product-led growth has built a name for itself through its deep toolbox of effective tactics, from free trials to low prices to an inherent vitality — all of which can build a strong foundation for a versatile company. Sales and IT aren’t the enemy, but instead maximizers of growth. 2018’s Lesson from Salesforce.

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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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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. Whether it’s your first time creating a go-to-market strategy or your tenth, this article will teach you everything you need to know to be successful.

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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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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

OCTOBER 25, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. Or, ICP marketing. It’s More Than Content The drum is beating…SEO isn’t just a content play.

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The 5% Institute

MAY 26, 2023

In today’s competitive business landscape, having effective go-to-market strategies is crucial for organizations aiming to maximize their success. By carefully planning and executing their entry into the market, businesses can gain a competitive edge, capture the attention of their target audience, and achieve sustainable growth.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the past, companies could pursue growth at all costs. Management teams must determine how to thrive in a downturn to position their businesses for profitable growth. Since 2008, investor preference has largely been growth-oriented due to the artificially low cost of capital and stimulus. Go to market.

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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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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

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. This is important.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This is a special edition of The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date on go-to-market and scale their companies and careers. SDR hiring is declining, while AE hiring remains steady and shows gradual growth. Details below – let’s get into it.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

As a founder, there are different ways you can set your start-up apart from other companies at the venture and growth stages. Investors look for specific metrics to see whether you stand out from the crowd, ranging from your market expansion potential to your product vision and product-market fit.

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having a well-defined go-to-market (GTM) strategy is crucial for the success of any product or service. A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively. Addresses broader business aspects beyond marketing alone, emphasizing a holistic approach.

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