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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. Rajeev Dham and Karan Singh, Partners at Sapphire Ventures, and Jane Lee, Vice President at Sapphire walk us through how to double your “Magic Number,” a shorthand for your sales and marketing efficiency.

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How to Scale Go-to-Market Through IPO with ICONIQ Growth’s General Partners

SaaStr

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. At the time of IPO, 30% of revenue is typically from non-North American customers. Net dollar retention.

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How to Build A Truly Global Business From Day One with Flexport’s CEO Ryan Petersen

SaaStr

Make sure you know how your customers buy and tailor your go to market strategy and messaging to that. 2) Spend all your time on achieving product-market fit until you have it. 2) Spend all your time on achieving product-market fit until you have it. Talk to users non-stop, and build things based on their feedback.

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How To Fundraise in The Toughest Market in Two Decades (i.e., Relationship Selling 101).

Sales Hacker

GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. Limited Partners : A partner in a company or venture who receives limited profits from the business and whose liability toward its debts is legally limited to the extent of his or her investment. Well, lets go and help them.

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GTM 128: The Death of Demos and Selling What Customers Actually Need with Fred Viet

Sales Hacker

Clearly, it’s going to help us. It’s going to help us to accelerate on, I would say, reduce the time we spend on non-very useful tasks. But the point is, sometimes people, they think AI is going to do the job for them. Fred Viet: Going to say um two um when we touch base on the first one is the um.

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The Ultimate Guide to Startups

Hubspot

Market research helps you analyze your competition, research their product or service, pricing structure, messaging, and unique selling proposition (USP), and better understand how you can set your business apart. Market research helps you formulate your positioning statement for your product and your brand. CTA: [link].

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Why Self-Service and Product-Led Growth Won’t Replace Sales [Opinion]

Sales Hacker

Publicly-traded, PLG businesses grow faster than their peers and are less reliant on expensive sales and marketing investments to fuel their growth. All while remaining profitable. Even if a product sells itself, it’s not going away any time soon, and now there’s original data to prove it. Just look at Zoom’s S-1 filing.

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