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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. This makes sense given the likely resource constraints and the value to be gained from getting in front of customers from day one. Define your marketing personas. It’s okay if you are ‘terrible’ at it.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

The second stage is treating growth as top of funnel marketing and layering on sales to open up profitable yet harder to reach segments. Stripe hit the market with such force that they could rely on a high-velocity, bottom-up distribution engine to give them the kind of traction other startups could only dream of.

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How to build, manage and scale a sales team – 12 strategies from the experts

Intercom, Inc.

The sales-driven SaaS companies that are very capital-efficient generally end up at 5x or greater as a ratio of average quota attainment / average on-target earnings. “Sales doesn’t need to be a cost center. It’s perfect for mature startups trying to optimize existing sales resources to tap into new markets and verticals.

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Pragmatic Live Transcripts (Prioritizing Your Product Launch)

Pragmatic Marketing

Hello and welcome to the Pragmatic Live podcast series where we tackle the biggest challenges facing today's product management, product marketing, and other market and data driven professionals with some of the best minds in the industry. I'm a principal product marketer here at HubSpot. Yes, my name is Marcus.

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Pragmatic Live Transcripts (Prioritizing Your Product Launch)

Pragmatic Marketing

Hello and welcome to the Pragmatic Live podcast series where we tackle the biggest challenges facing today's product management, product marketing, and other market and data driven professionals with some of the best minds in the industry. I'm a principal product marketer here at HubSpot. Yes, my name is Marcus.