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Only 18% of Your Sales Teams Are Really Hitting Plan Right Now
So in one of the latest SaaStr surveys, we saw what a lot of us are feeling … it’s just hard to hit quota out there. Only 18% of you were hitting the 70%+ quota attainment that high-performing sales teams generally try to hit. And only 43% of you had sales teams that were hitting…
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Dear SaaStr: How Difficult is It To Fundraise Over the Summer?
Dear SaaStr: How Difficult is It To Fundraise Over the Summer? There’s still seasonality to venture fundraising, even now with so much being done over Zoom. Yes, deals get done every day in venture. But especially in bigger partnerships, it’s just harder to get everyone together to approve a deal when some of the folks…
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