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The Top 10 Important Finance Mistakes First Time Founders Make

SaaStr

He probably lost several millions in his purchasing price because of it. Here’s the difference between the two: A controller will take care of everyday accounting business, close the books and report numbers, but the responsibilities end there. Advice: Beginning today, think of your business in terms of accrual-based accounting.

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Why Yellow Pages Ads Are Becoming Obsolete

Hubspot

Some Quick Facts: Since 2007, many states quit printing residential listings or have pending requests: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. Instead, it follows the curves and tools of emerging online technologies.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pleo and Talkdesk — October 4, 2019

SaaStr

How does Jeppe respond to 3 common concerns VCs have with SMBs: * The price points are so low that it takes huge volume to scale to meaningful revenue? * Ep 271: Gillian Heltai oversees Talkdesk’s Customer Success and Technical Support teams, partnering closely with customers to achieve their CX vision. What changes? *

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Hopefully people aren’t getting hurt, but you’re losing a sales deal, you have a bad press event, you lose a candidate that you wanted to close, and what happens to companies when something breaks or there’s a mistake is they over correct usually. And I guess I’ll close really with reminding you of what I started with.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

Hopefully people aren’t getting hurt, but you’re losing a sales deal, you have a bad press event, you lose a candidate that you wanted to close, and what happens to companies when something breaks or there’s a mistake is they over correct usually. Claire Johnson: This happens in companies too, by the way.

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9 call analytics platforms for marketing teams to consider

Martech

For information on pricing and a deeper feature breakdown, download the MarTech Intelligence Report. Dover, Delaware-based Ringba was founded in 2015 and has 33 employees. The result can be a long-term, productive call analytics partnership that boosts both revenue and profit for your marketing organization. Target customers.

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It’s Not the Wild West: 12 Tactics to Make Your Price Negotiations Smooth and Successful

Salesforce

There’s no better feeling than closing a deal after a tough price negotiation. In this article, we’ll show you how to perfect that skill — complete with 12 price negotiation tactics used by reps across industries. What you’ll learn: What is price negotiation? Why are price negotiations important?