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In those days enterprise software companies went to market by building a really expensive direct sales force with sales reps and sales engineers out in the field in key cities. And we routinely had to replace sales reps and start over again in a sales territory. Intros that would have been hard to get directly without that expensive sales force on the ground. Growing Big Management Oracle Sales sales cycle sales strategy Yammer
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