Engineering Go To Market Networking X-functional 
SaaStr
APRIL 30, 2024
2023 saw the team grow from 6-10 reps, which is pretty modest, and they built an SDR function. At the end of ‘22, they started a small pilot and grew that function from one and two BDRs to a team of 10 and then 12. The growth engine from both sales and marketing should to be working before you add gas to it. They grew 2.5x
SaaStr
OCTOBER 3, 2023
In startups, founders and teams often wear many hats — figuring out what to prioritize, developing and implementing all types of demand gen strategies, attending events and networking, and founder-led sales. Let’s look at Borland’s approach to aligning and executing B2B team selling motions for a rinse-and-repeat process for growth.
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ConversionXL
JUNE 30, 2019
Companies do it for a wide variety of reasons—SEO, branding, go-to-market strategy, pricing, etc.—and Competitor X is doing Y. We should do that, too,” or “X is the market leader, and they have Y, so we need Y.” Run a functional investigation. Run a functional investigation. is probably random.
Heinz Marketing
MAY 16, 2022
You may say, “I’m not a right fit for you because of X, Y, and Z,” but you still made an impression and made it clear who you are best for and that person knows other people that work for or lead companies or lead functions that could need you. . I’m a big believer in cross-functional alignment.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 21, 2020
Tripod was a search engine there, which exited to AltaVista. Both of us and our third co-founder, Jason Purcell, were at a company called Endeca, which was a search engine for e-commerce, exited to Oracle for over a billion dollars in 2011. And that’s distinct from the X in the cloud pattern that was the first generation.
Sales Hacker
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
I’m not a lawyer, I’m actually an engineer by classical training, and it’s been a fun and interesting ride to work with this community. And made a lot of sense that I felt the confidence that I also have the networking side of Boston, a great, great startup community and really welcoming, and really helpful.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 17, 2019
If engineers are doing days or weeks or even sometimes months of work to install something, it’s incredibly unlikely that they’re going to quickly rip it out and change it. That allows us to have a very different go to market strategy. As such, we do a lot of things very differently. We just built a product.”
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