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The State of SaaS Go-to-Market with Theory Ventures General Partner Tomasz Tunguz

SaaStr

Then Mark Roberge , former Hubspot CRO, wrote The Sales Acceleration Formula with deep insights into quota structures. That elongated sales cycle created pipeline supply shocks. To offset slower sales cycles and worse payback periods, quotas have moved in step with them. She said yes, so he asked how it’s going.

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How marketing fuels the shift from problem-market fit to product-market fit

Martech

As performance becomes harder to predict, Emma is caught in a whirlwind of soaring CPAs, long “gap-close meetings,” and the desperate need to meet ever-higher quotas. While marketing focuses on developing awareness and customer preference, GTM aims to shorten the distance between the product or service and the customer.

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From Flip-Flops to a $500M Exit as CRO: Lessons Learned from Taking a Startup From $0 to a Successful Exit with Martin Roth

Sales Hacker

Martin emphasizes the importance of maintaining enough quota coverage to meet revenue targets while accounting for factors like rep attrition and ramp time. Listen to Martin explain more context around this in episode 125 of The GTM Podcast.

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Top 10 GTM Mistakes Founders Make Today with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

If you’ve read SaaStr or have been around for the last decade, you might be familiar with some of the repeated GTM mistakes founders tend to make, but the world of hiring, people, scaling, and workplace expectations are significantly different today than they were before March 2020. Then, you look at variable costs, and you cut marketing.

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7 Top CRO Tips on Annual Planning

Sales Hacker

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies. “If you lose a top performer, their quota still needs to be met.

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Why Top-Performing Reps See Their Pipeline as Half Empty

Salesforce

When it comes to closing a deal, it pays to look at your pipeline as half empty. Learn how the brightest minds in business, culture, and sports “Think Outside the Quota” to find sales success. You deal with a lot of failure as a rep,” said Belal Batrawy, veteran sales coach and head of go-to-market (GTM) at GTM Buddy.

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Pursuing Efficient Ineffectiveness….

Partners in Excellence

We have long been consumed with efficiency in our GTM efforts. There has been no part of our GTM strategies that we haven’t been able to drive stunning levels of efficiency. But our adoption of these principles into our GTM efforts have completely lost this. We can incorporate engagement data.

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