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How Windsurf / Codeium Built a Billion-Dollar AI Company and a Winning Sales Machine

SaaStr

The company already had impressive product-market fit, with the founders having sold several million dollars worth of product before hiring dedicated sales staff. The first GTM hires are your most important Your initial sales team sets the culture and performance bar. .” In AI especially, deployment success is everything. .”

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LinkedIn Sales Mastery: How B2B Teams Close More Deals with Social Selling

RingDNA

If you’re not active on LinkedIn, you’re missing out on one of the most powerful tools for driving brand awareness, building credibility, and expanding your network. “75% If you live for weekend trout fishing trips you might slip it in there, but not at the expense of describing the products or services you are selling.

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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lead List

Hubspot

I generated many of my own sales leads through cold-calling and networking. These days, sales reps can access a wealth of prospecting tools to enrich their lead lists, like LinkedIn Sales Navigator , ChatSpot , Uplead , and PartnerTap. This investment has helped me time and time again.

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The best AI agents for sales on the market — here’s what I tested and expert takes

Hubspot

Think of them as software-based team members built to handle repetitive, time-sensitive sales tasks at scale, freeing you up to focus on higher-value activities like selling, strategy, and closing deals. The average sales rep even loses two days a week on admin and paperwork tasks. Limits video meetings to 10 participants.

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Timeless growth principles that scaled $20M to $450M

Sales Hacker

He studied what Carta specifically needed fixing broken lead routing, segmenting sellers by skill, and rethinking post-sale experience. Make onboarding a growth weapon Your GTM is only as good as your post-sale experience. Jeff didnt try to copy Oracle or DocuSign playbooks at Carta. Diagnose, then design the solution.

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GTM 134: When to Hire Your First Sales Reps (And How to Get It Right) with Joe DiMento

Sales Hacker

And, you know, really that role and it’s such a cool role you have is it’s all about, you know, working with founders to help them unlock go-to-market growth and access, you know, executive networks within the Bain network, which is very much like what we do at GTM fund. Um, at Fractal when we had.

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Not Using AI to Replace Your SDRs, But to Make Them 2x Better: A Deep Dive with Carta’s CRO and LinkedIn’s First VP Sales

SaaStr

Brendan Cassidy might be the definition of “been there, done that” in SaaS sales. As co-founder of High Five, he brings 20+ years of startup sales experience. But here’s what really matters: he was the first VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, and Talkdesk. Translation?

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