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10 Things Startups Get Wrong Selling to Developers and Engineers (from the CRO Who Scaled Databricks from

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Here are the 10 biggest mistakes he sees startups make when selling to technical buyers—and how to fix them. Hiring Non-Technical Sales Leaders for Technical Products The Mistake : Founders think great sales skills translate to any market. I think we could have grown even faster.”

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From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship

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Ron explains: “Wehire mostly technical backgrounds, but as our customers get larger and larger, you start to get global account managers, and they’re going to have much more business strategic account management experience. Similar to most structures of a technical sales team. We tend to be very technical.

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Sales In The Age of AI: The Playbook from The CROs of Databricks, Windsurf, Perplexity and Owner

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” – Dmitry Shevelenko, CBO, Perplexity Perplexity’s success story illustrates this perfectly: they hit the market at exactly the right moment when GPT-3 became powerful enough but before competitors could react. This technical foundation makes AI adoption natural rather than forced.

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CRO Confidential: Bringing Product-Led and Sales-Led Growth Together For Go-To-Market Success with Giancarlo Lionetti, CRO of Zapier

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In this latest episode of CRO Confidential , Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with the CRO of Zapier, Giancarlo Lionetti (GC), to chat about Product-Led Growth (PLG) and Go-To-Market (GTM). Everything from hiring on the GTM side to layering in a sales-led motion into PLG. At the same time?

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The Secret to Global Sales Expansion in Uncertain Times

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One of the first steps when you’re preparing to move into a new market is to create a cross-functional, go-to-market strategy. Gain agreement from everyone involved on market status, product, marketing, customer success investments, success metrics, and timeline.

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Sales Proof of Concept (POC): 5 Ways to Drive More Revenue

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To help demystify this sales POC term and provide context for all go-to-market professionals, let’s expand on each of these terms and identify five things the pre-sales professional can do to drive more revenue within the middle of the funnel. Sales Profile: SMB to Commercial. POC and POV. Prove: show your value.

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From AE to CEO: Entrepreneurial Life Lessons with Asad Zaman

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Sales development school, marketing school, and more for your entire team. Do only a few reps meet quota each quarter? Revenue leaders trust Mindtickle to drive winning sales rep behaviors so you can beat quota every quarter. Go to try.mindtickle.com/sales-hacker to learn more. Asad, welcome.

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