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Doubling Down: Rebecca Lynn, Co-Founder & General Partner at Canvas Ventures

SaaStr

By the time companies get to Series B, they’ve figured out their product-market fit but they still haven’t scaled. Series B is where the go-to-market expertise is essential – you have to know how to truly understand who your target customers are and set up an experimental channel strategy.

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SaaStr Podcast #357 with BlackLine CEO & Founder Therese Tucker: “Busting the Myths About Startup Success”

SaaStr

For those of you that don’t know Southern California, that’s the movie business, Hollywood. He’ll tell you that Brad Pitt’s going to star in this pilot and he’s got so? Terrifying, because back in those days, big companies didn’t even know what SaaS was, much less they weren’t going to put their financial information out in the cloud.

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Funding in the Time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

First of all, in the last four weeks, more jobs have been lost in our country than exists in total in California or Texas. California employees about 17 million people, Texas about 15 million. So people were paying people to take their futures contracts. That means specifically they’re going to cancel contracts.

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Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine’s Founder CEO (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

For those of you that don’t know Southern California, that’s the movie business, Hollywood. Terrifying because back in those days, big companies didn’t even know what SaaS was, much less they weren’t going to put their financial information out in the cloud. Oh my gosh, you can run into him all the time.

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PODCAST 76: Bottom-up Approach for Sales Rep Productivity Model w/ Kevin Egan

Sales Hacker

We hear his best practices on developing a sales team, measuring rep productivity, why companies should lead with their product first, and what the sales team’s responsibility is inside of a product-led go-to-market strategy. But, Let’s go to the beginning: How’d you get into sales? What You’ll Learn.

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Matt Garratt: All of our mid-market business and we are going to be talking about how our portfolio companies and how Salesforce ventures, and how Salesforce is shifting our go to market strategies during these very uncertain times and really excited to have Adnan here, one of the best sales leaders I’ve ever had the privilege of working with.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

To build the initial team, to build the product, to build the initial go to market, to build the first customers and to build the ARR, the starting. Pietro : This journey used to end at the legendary, mythical product/market fit. It’s known that you can probably sell those first couple of contracts. growth fund.

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