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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

In a sense, three cloud application companies at a combined average of five years after going public are all spending nearly half of their revenue on sales and marketing. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public? Customer needs can shift quickly.

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Why Sales Marketing Alignment Projects Fail

Envy

As a result, whoever owns the SDR/BDR role(s) essentially owns the entire sales and marketing process, and can set the agenda going forward. If the SDR/BDR “sits with” marketing, the criteria to become an MQL or SQL will be somewhat looser in order to ship over to sales as quickly as possible. The role of technology.