SaaStr

MAY 28, 2024

If you’ve read SaaStr or have been around for the last decade, you might be familiar with some of the repeated GTM mistakes founders tend to make, but the world of hiring, people, scaling, and workplace expectations are significantly different today than they were before March 2020. That is everyone’s number one source of new customers.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

What are the biggest GTM mistakes founders make? GTM Mistake #1: A VP of Sales That Can’t Sell or Demo the Product Mistake number one has always been an issue, and it’s the number one reason startups struggle in today’s world. GTM Mistake #3: Stepping Out Of Sales Founders often want to step out of sales after hiring a GTM team.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies. 3 reasons why a unified sales and customer success strategy works 1.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2021

Here’s my guess: you’d see a GTM organization working together like a well-oiled machine. They’re all on board – marketing, sales, product, customer success, and executive leaders. Choose people from diverse backgrounds who have worked in sales, marketing, customer service, operations, and training. Training platforms.

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Xant

MARCH 3, 2021

Our customer conference—NEXT 2021 is just around the corner and we think you should be there. NEXT is a free 2-day virtual event designed to give your sales team practical insights to succeed in 2021, and a vision for where the market is going. Hear from David Dulaney on how to align your GTM teams to the new customer journey.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

With too many examples from SaaStr Annual 2021 to call out specifically, here are 2 “Cloud talks plus decks” that I can imagine the Self-Taught Founder relying upon: David Sacks On SaaS Org Charts. This 20-20-20 data is amazingly useful to that Self-Taught Founder building out their GTM operating model.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2021

With one day left to go until SaaStr Scale 2021 on December 15th, we’re looking at an incredible speaker line-up this year. It’s what your customers will be buying, after all. The post 4 Marketing Sessions at SaaStr Scale 2021: Reprise VPM + Reprise VPS, Tipalti CMO, Airtable CMO, Guru VPM appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2024

Is it the end of an era for customer success in SaaS? We just wrote up how some of the biggest changes of SaaS are now coming, specifically in Customer Success and Sales. Customer Success Is Vulnerable to Cuts Jason shared that he didn’t realize how vulnerable customer success was to cuts until 2023. Let’s dive in.

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Outreach

JULY 16, 2021

A winning go-to-market strategy provides direction and metrics that help all revenue departments stay aligned on customer acquisition (and retention!) Steven Bryerton , SVP of sales at ZoomInfo, took the Unleash 2021 audience on a deep dive of his team’s GTM strategy from a new sales perspective.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ready to turbocharge and increase your SaaS sales in 2021? Make it Easier for Customers to Grow With You: Get creative if your sales have been stuck. The intent being to make it an easy start for customers, and remove red tape that occurs, especially when making large decisions. Key Considerations from 2020: Look at the data.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2021

1. “SaaStr 417: How Sales and Product Really Should Work Together with Javier Molina, VP, Corporate Sales, Americas @ MongoDB and Sahir Azam, Chief Customer Officer” A super important topic we don’t hear discussed enough. #2. And how to win in a very competitive market. #7.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. is one of the fastest-growing companies in SaaS, with 9x ARR growth since 2021 and currently valued at $1.6 Leandra brings over 30 years of experience to Apollo.io.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Thanks for reading The GTM Newsletter! Here are the 5 biggest takeaways from the session: Falling Seed to Series A Graduation Rates During the boon 2020 and 2021, the graduation rates from Seed to Series A sat well-above historical averages. Hottest GTM job of the week: Head of Customer Success at Regrello , more details here.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 5, 2021

5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Highspot , the sales enablement platform that increases the performance of sales teams, today announced that its second annual global user conference, Highspot Spark 2021 , will take place on November 3–4. SEATTLE, Oct. About Highspot. Contact: Elena Edington, 206-817-4339, elena.edington@highspot.com. ###.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. Customer feedback is the lifeblood of startup growth. You have a direct connection to your customers. First comes direction, then speed. You create a built-in feedback loop.

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Martech

JULY 14, 2022

A survey by the IT Sales and Marketing Association (ITSMA) found 27% of the marketing budget dedicated to ABM in 2021, with 75% of those surveyed saying they planned to increase spending on ABM in 2022. This customer acquisition strategy focuses on delivering promotions — advertising, direct mail, content syndication, etc.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2021

“How to Serve Multiple Customer Segments at the Same Time with Square’s Global Head of Sales” Square is a $120B market cap giant now serving businesses tiny, small, medium and even a few large. Let’s dig right in: #1. Sign up for that here. #6.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Go-to-market (GTM) design and efficiency are sometimes overlooked, but they’re a critical driver of any SaaS business. In 2023 alone, Sapphire saw AE sales quota attainment drop in H2 to 60% from 90% in H2 2021. No one is quarterbacking the entire GTM engine. Companies need to rethink GTM organization design.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

As the Chief Customer Officer (CCO) at Quip, I learned another valuable lesson: big numbers don’t necessarily translate to big opportunities. There’s no harm, of course, in celebrating big numbers — but not at the cost of neglecting a go-to-market (GTM) strategy. 2021’s Lesson from Calendly. 2016’s Lesson from Quip.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2021

We’re putting the final touch-ups on the 100% outdoors and open-air, 100% vaccinated 2021 SaaStr Annual Sep 27-29 in SF Bay Area. Kurt Muehmel, Chief Customer Officer @ Dataiku. Jag Jill, Regional Lead, Customer Success – US East, Canada & Latin America @ Dataiku. Anique Drumright, VP Product @ Loom.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

Colin joined Wiz in February 2021 when the company was near zero revenue. Distributed Teams Were a Feature, Not a Bug, Even on GTM Team The pandemic forced a distributed model with teams spread across Denver, Colorado, and Tel Aviv. It’s an incredible look back on scaling and more: Colin Jones, first Chief Revenue Officer at Wiz.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

with Confluent’s President : Amidst the volatility of today’s economic climate and market, GTM leaders need to be especially savvy when it comes to their company growth strategies and earning their customers’ love. It is time to adopt a future-proof sales model that meets how today’s customers want to buy.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Sales leaders like Florin Tatulea (Director of Sales at Barley) feel the impact from the past few years alone: “Pure cold outbound is 3x harder than it was in 2021.” Pocus brings together product usage and other intent signals (customer, community, marketing data) to surface top leads, enabling reps to act fast. Let’s get into it.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In today’s dynamic SaaS landscape of hyperfuncational SaaS, the journey of building a product that customers adore, while simultaneously scaling revenue to nearly $1B, is still quite a feat. Not only is Klaviyo a rocketship but also the first to IPO in over 2 years (since December 2021) when it went public in September of 2023.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2024

It’s a SaaS startup that basically fell out of product-market fit after the 2021 boom … but has enough revenue and high enough NRR to keep going. And most importantly, they kept most of their existing customers, even as they struggled to attract any new ones. But they just can’t get any new customers anymore. What’s that?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Super Bowl is around the corner: Gong did Super Bowl ads starting in 2021 and 2022 before it was ‘cool’ for B2B companies, setting a new record week for pipeline creation at the company. Listen on Spotify or find it anywhere you get your podcasts by searching “The GTM Podcast.” Share The GTM Newsletter That’s it, that’s all.

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2024

In 2020, they still didn’t have a finished product until May, when they onboarded their first customer. In 2021, they grew from 50 people to 650 people in one year, and now they have over 1,100 people in 170+ countries and tens of thousands of customers. If someone else succeeds at some GTM strategy, you will, too, right?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Cloud 100 multiples have fallen in 2022 –– ARR multiples rose nearly fourfold from 9x in 2016 to 34x in 2021 and down to 30x in 2022. Fundamentally, the recurring revenue nature of the model, our ability to efficiently go and build software and have it delivered to customers, and create value is still an extraordinary business model.”.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Titles you’re likely to see for this role include Sales Manager, Enablement Manager, and GTM Specialist. They have a firm grasp of GTM strategies, value propositions, and positioning, as well as familiarity with your company’s KPIs and workflows. Chris Asmar, Customer Success Manager. The post Use Outreach?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We’ll share the answers in today’s brand new episode of CRO Confidential, where our host Sam Blond, partner at Founders Fund, sits down with Toast CRO, Jonathan Vassil to talk about their proven customer acquisition strategies that led to its record-breaking growth. Toast has 80k-85k customers, and it is still in the early days.

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2022

If a SaaS business hopes to win over the SMB market successfully, it will need a precise GTM approach. At the SaaStr Europa 2022 event, Accel Partner Philippe Botteri interviewed PayFit CEO & Co-Founder Firmin Zocchetto to ask about his GTM strategy. . Boterri’s company Accel invested in PayFit in 2017 and again in 2021.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2024

For sales, product, or customer success, the best question you could ask is, “What would you do your first couple of weeks?” They’re going to meet customers for the first two weeks. Not everyone loves meeting customers. Can Early-Stage Startups Run PLG and Enterprise GTM Motions at the Same Time? Don’t listen to your VCs.

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SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2021

. “The 5 things that kill startups after their seed rounds with Michael Seibel, CEO of Y Combinator” A SaaStr Classic and we are super excited Michael is joining us again for a Masterclass at 2021 SaaStr Annual Sep 27-29 in SF Bay Area!! More here. #2. With a tiny 1/100th the size (or likely less): #6. A must watch. #7.

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SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2024

If you want a place to host your videos without giving away customer information to TikTok, Google, or Meta, Vimeo is a good option. Customer acquisition. Most companies aren’t good at cross-organizational in a single GTM mode, but you have to be. It lies with the customers. By being a video platform. It’s a pain.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Invest early in building cross-functional relationships and opportunities to learn and expand your scope – you will be rewarded.” – Jonah Mandel (VP of Sales & Customer Success at Capchase ) #6 “ Embrace expansive thinking and learning. Head of Customer Success at Capchase – more details here.

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Martech

AUGUST 29, 2023

million sessions in 2021, per Niche Pursuits) GA blog SimoAhava.com. followers) X/Twitter: @kristaseiden (21K followers) Blog: kristaseiden.com Himanshu Sharma Himanshu is founder of Optimize Smart, a UK agency offering GA4 and GTM consulting and web analytics training. LinkedIn: KristaSeiden (12.8K

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2024

Sales is much harder than in 2021. 2021 made no sense in terms of budgeting. Some people are unwilling to work in the current environment and blame it on customers and the macro. The average public company today has over $300k of revenue per employee; in 2021, it was just over $100k. It’s supposed to be hard.

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