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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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Where to Allocate Marketing Budgets in 2023/2024

Sales Hacker

Over the past year, we’ve had tons of founders ask where they should be prioritizing their marketing dollars and resources considering the wild economic year that 2023 has unfolded as. The annual Gartner 2023 CMO Spend and Strategy Survey was conducted in March and April 2023. Thanks for reading The GTM Newsletter!

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The Top 10 SaaStr Sessions of 2023! Loom, YCombinator, Craft Ventures, Rippling, UiPath and More

SaaStr

Why You’re Unfundable in 2023: The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin #6. Go to Market Strategies That Led To Divvy’s $2.5B CRO Confidential: Guild Education SVP, Go To Market Strategy, Operations & Enablement Cherishma Shah #10. Exit with Divvy’s Former CRO, Sterling Snow #7.Scaling

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Why The Era of Efficient Growth is Now: The 2023 VC State of the Market with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Podcast +Video)

SaaStr

In this post, we’ll share the learnings from SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin’s frontline analysis of the current state of the market in 2023, and distill down into why we’re now in the era of efficient growth in SaaS. Despite losing $400 million in 2023, they nearly broke even just one year later.

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Building Resilience Through Efficient Scaling In 2023 with ICONIQ Growth General Partner, Doug Pepper, and General Partner and Head of Analytics, Christine Edmonds (Video)

SaaStr

Many companies got sucked into the 2021 vortex of a low-interest rate environment and high multiples when they should have focused on growth and efficiency. General Partner of ICONIQ Growth, Doug Pepper, and General Partner and Head of Analytics, Christine Edmonds, joined us for Workshop Wednesday , held live every Wednesday at 10 a.m.

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How to Grow Revenue Faster in the Second Half of 2023 with Founders Fund

SaaStr

2023 has been a difficult year for many tech companies. Markets have been all over the place, layoffs occurred, and investors weren’t funding as much as usual. However, Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund & Host of the SaaStr CRO Confidential Podcast , believes there are reasons to be optimistic for the rest of 2023.

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Thanks to Carta, Make, Outreach, SAP, and Worldline for Sponsoring SaaStr Europa 2023!

SaaStr

In June 2023, we’re heading back to London for SaaStr Europa and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of the companies that will be there with us! We have created a special cloud offering for startups and scale-up companies designed to provide the tools to help the businesses of tomorrow reach your maximum growth potential.

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