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Which Sales Strategy Is Best For Your Startup?
- Top-down sales strategies generally require significant effort to identify paying customers but typically yield superior early retention metrics compared to bottom-up approaches.
- Scaling a top-down motion necessitates building a dedicated enterprise sales team, establishing a unit economics floor price of approximately $10k for mid-market and $100k for enterprise segments.
- Products priced below the cost of the required enterprise sales team floor price will likely fail to achieve viable unit economics under a top-down model.
- Bottom-up strategies are suited for pitches that resonate with individual contributors or small teams, relying on acquiring individual users to facilitate executive sales.
- Conversely, products whose value proposition resonates most directly with executives are expected to follow a top-down sales trajectory.