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The Sales Manager's Guide to Opportunity Management

Iannarino

To reach your goals as a sales manager, you need your team to hit their targets. Hitting those targets requires them to create new opportunities with existing clients and win new logos. When a salesperson logs a new opportunity in your CRM, you don't know whether they will win or lose the deal. You don't know if the new opportunity is real or another first conversation that is the salesperson's last conversation.

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2022: A Cr*p Year for SaaS IPOs. But a Pretty Good Year for M&A.

SaaStr

So this was a Truly Terrible, Very Bad, Just Plain Awful year for SaaS IPOs — and IPOs in general. The IPO window is closed. Shut, mostly. In fact, IPOs had their biggest slump since 2008: IPO listing volume is down a stunning 93%(!) since 2021. Last year, it seemed like everyone at $100m+ ARR could IPO. Today, it looks like almost no one will.

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