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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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Pipeline & Deal Velocity

23 Feb 2026

Trials are the crack of enterprise deals

Trials often look like progress while quietly killing momentum. This piece explains why poorly controlled trials weaken deals instead of advancing them.

Leadership

17 Feb 2026

Succeed with fractional leadership

Fractional leadership works when the problem is clarity and execution, not headcount. This article explains how to use senior part-time leadership properly.

Pipeline & Deal Velocity

9 Feb 2026

What Don't You Know About Your Deals?

Deal risk often hides in what the team assumes rather than what it knows. This piece shows how to find the blind spots that distort pipeline confidence.

Discovery

2 Feb 2026

Stop Answering Questions

Answering every question can make you sound helpful while killing discovery. This article explains why better sellers redirect, probe, and keep control of the conversation.

Discovery, Pipeline & Deal Velocity

26 Jan 2026

Engage the Economic Buyer earlier

Deals often stall because the real decision-maker enters too late. This piece explains why engaging the economic buyer earlier improves deal quality and speed.

Pipeline & Deal Velocity

18 Jan 2026

Too many deals drift quarter after quarter with no real progress.

Too many pipelines look healthy because stalled deals are treated as active opportunities. This article explores why deals drift, how false progress shows up, and what to do before another quarter slips away.

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