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Insights on scaling B2B revenue

Practical lessons from working with venture-backed SaaS teams.

Most shared with leadership teams

A few pieces that founders and revenue leaders come back to most.

Leadership

Your first sales leader probably shouldn’t be a CRO

Hiring a CRO too early is one of the most common and costly mistakes in early-stage commercial hiring. Your first sales leader needs to be on live deals, not building org charts - the job is to make founder-led selling repeatable before you scale anything.

Pipeline & Deal Velocity

What Don't You Know About Your Deals?

GTM & Strategy, Demos, General

The Sales v Marketing referee

Leadership

Losing a deal... and a job

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Discovery

2026-04-13

How much pain does your prospect really feel?

Most sellers can identify a prospect's problem. Far fewer can make the prospect feel it urgently enough to act. The difference between a deal that stalls and one that moves comes down to whether pain is genuinely implicated across the business.

General

2026-03-30

From Reactive Discounting to Disciplined Negotiation at Scale

When price pressure appears, most sales teams default to discounting before they fully understand what the buyer actually needs. This case study shows how agilio restructured negotiation behaviour across a 14-person team - and what changed commercially when they did.

AI in GTM / RevOps, Leadership

2026-03-23

What AEs really want

Most AEs want more coaching than they get, and most managers want to give more than they have time for. AI can close that gap — but the barrier isn't the technology, it's whether teams build the habit of using it.

General, Leadership

16 Mar 2026

Don't Hire a BDR. Hire Two

Early sales hires rarely fail because of effort; they fail because they are isolated, unsupported, and untested. Hiring in pairs accelerates learning, improves execution, and reduces the commercial risk of a single point of failure.

Discovery

9 Mar 2026

Always ask this question

Most discovery calls stay too safe. This article focuses on one question that quickly reveals seriousness, timing, and whether the deal is real.

GTM & Strategy, Leadership

2 Mar 2026

Building a Scalable Revenue Engine - The Edgetier Story

Scaling revenue is not just about hiring more sellers. This case study shows how Edgetier built a stronger commercial engine by improving structure, focus, and execution.

Practical thinking you can use immediately

Tools and insights for improving your revenue engine

Demo Training

Coach winning demos

Discovery Training

Qualify deeper, faster

AE Toolkit

Hire top performers

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