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6 Tips on How Human Resource Leaders Can Boost Sales Team Performance

Vantage Circle

Sales professionals' skills and productivity strongly impact an organization's ROI and reputation. So, hiring the right resources and managing sales talent is crucial to winning and retaining customers, thereby building a successful business model. Tip 1: Understand the Different Sales Roles. What's more?

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How To (Actually) Calculate CAC

Andrew Chen

CPA would be used for leading indicators to CAC, such as Cost Per Lead, Cost Per Sales Qualified Lead, Cost Per Trial or other points in the marketing and sales funnel. Key Question #1: How long between your marketing/sales touch points and when someone becomes a customer? Example 2: SaaS Company w/ Inside Sales.

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a16z Podcast: Why paid marketing sucks, Network effects, Viral Growth, and more

Andrew Chen

Why onboarding is so important for retention/churn. Part one of this conversation focuses specifically on the aspect of user acquisition for growth, and then we cut off and go into the aspects of growth for user engagement and retention, in the next episode. Why offline products are so compelling for acquiring customers.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen

The reason for this is that the steps for starting and scaling a new startup share many of the same skills as investing in a new startup: 1) First, we seek to understand the existing state of customer growth – including growth loops, the quality of acquisition, engagement, churn, and monetization.

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Idea Management: How to Create a Systematic Approach to Capturing Bright Ideas

Vantage Circle

But as you scale a business there’s a risk of losing that dynamism. This is good for morale and will improve employee retention, but it’s especially important as we start to see more of Gen Z in the workforce. Startups pride themselves on speed. So far this has resulted in products like Gmail and AdSense.

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