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How to Double Your Magic Number and Increase Your Go-to-Market Efficiency with Sapphire Ventures

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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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How to Scale Go-to-Market Through IPO with ICONIQ Growth’s General Partners

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A great product, while necessary, isn’t sufficient to build a market leader and eventually a public company. Companies that win a market are just as good at Go-to-Market as they are at building great products. Generally, most companies have 2-3 sales leaders between founding and going public.

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The 6 Must-Have Go-To-Market Models Divvy Used to Propel Its $2.5B Exit with Former Divvy CRO Sterling Snow

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If you want to get big fast and you’re signing up for hypergrowth, you have to hire people who: Are energized by chasing ambitious goals. But you have to be fired up by that possibility. GTM Model #2: Budget, Quota, Goal At all times, you have three different numbers — budget, quota, and goal. Value extreme ownership.

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High-Velocity Techniques to Maximize Sales with Gusto’s CRO and Head of Go-to-Market

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In a recent Workshop Wednesday, Tolithia Kornweibel, CRO, and Jamie Edwards, Head of Go-to-Market Operations and Tools, share how Gusto maximizes revenue so that you can do the same. Today, many SaaS companies still divide up sales accounts in territories by city, country, or region, or round-robin them by rep.

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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). Either way, the foundation for success in Go-To-Market starts with the right team.

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Go to Market Strategies That Led To Divvy’s $2.5B Exit with Divvy’s Former CRO, Sterling Snow (Podcast 672 + Video)

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Let’s find out the go-to-market models Divvy used to go from zero to a $2.5B Automatically, the sales rep had responsibility for the next step and started selling a little differently and caring about what they didn’t care about before. If you take losses, you’re going to get more losses. How did they do it?

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

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We’re also brought to you by Vidyard — the best way to sell in a virtual world, whether you need to connect with more leads, qualify more opportunities, or close more deals. Make prospecting videos, follow-ups, product demos, and other communications that drive virtual selling. Get rid of quotas and get rid of commissions.