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A tribute to Mark Irvine

Search Engine Land

A son to Virginia Hall and Curt Brimblecom. Mark knew how I functioned and I knew how he functioned. A big mechanic of our friendship was knowing what was going on and giggling to ourselves about how “X” was actually a red herring, or that “Y” was setting up for ABC. Brother to Jeff, David, and Nicole Irvine.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Keith Rabois and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

X and it’s not [inaudible 00:20:29]. I mean, there’s a couple public companies, several private companies, but it’s had step function. What I mean step function, I’ll give you some real numbers. So massive step function. It was in a good space, it’s growing 3X, unit economics are plenty good.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 196 Q & A with Lisa Gschwandtner @SellingPower20

Heinz Marketing

So I studied English literature at the University of Virginia. And I think that there are some good cross-functional lessons that we can all take out of this. Say an enterprise company, the global reach, was able to increase sales performance by X percent. I got a Master of fine arts in fiction writing at St. I read a lot.

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PODCAST 113: Secrets to Great Leadership During a Pandemic and Beyond with Barrett Boston

Sales Hacker

I just decided that it’s the sales function that grows companies and drives the economy, quite frankly. I mean, business schools look down their nose at sales as just sort of a function that people who didn’t go to business school do. Barrett Boston: I considered it maybe for a split second, but not for long.

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Decacorns & Unicorns in 2020: Founders Fund Keith Rabois and SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

X and it’s not [inaudible 00:20:29]. I mean, there’s a couple public companies, several private companies, but it had step function. What I mean step function, I’ll give you some real numbers. So massive step function. If you can achieve X, Y, and Z everybody’s going to love you.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 109: Q&A with Alli McKee @founderofstick

Heinz Marketing

We were thrilled this last time to be able to talk to Alli McKee , Founder and CEO at Stick who has a Bachelors from the University of Virginia in studio art. Our guest today, she has a Bachelors from the University of Virginia in studio art. You’re more likely to close deals by x percent when you use this product.”

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Jason Lemkin: So, traditionally in normal and good times, there is a sort of very slow-paced pressure as a VC, which is to do X deals a year. But SVT Robotics is a company that is based in Virginia, Virginia Beach, actually. And they’ve lived in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Virginia, and all the places where warehouses are.

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