The Swarm is acquiring Commsor
If you’re a revenue leader looking to scale up warm intros, or if you're building on people and relationship data, it's time to switch to The Swarm.
Startup Recruiting: Lessons Learned From Experienced Founders
Building a startup is never easy. It involves a wide range of tasks and challenges in different areas — from finding funding and establishing a strategy to building a great product and finding your customer base.
The Quick Start Guide to Hiring Your First 13 Employees
Congratulations! You’ve taken the plunge and started your company. You know all the things you need — funding, product-market fit, a growth roadmap — and it can be a lot. Now the question is: who exactly do you need to hire in order to put your plan into action?
How to Select Candidates Like the Navy SEALs
Matt Maasdam, Ex Navy SEALs Instructor and Co-Founder at PECOS Outdoor, didn’t take the most traditional path to entrepreneurship. In fact, his career journey matches few others. Maasdam started his career with the Navy SEALs, where he spent 20 years working in candidate selection and training. He later carried the nuclear codes for President Obama during his two years as the White House’s Military Aide. Since then, Maasdam has run strategy programs at Under Armour and worked as the COO of startup Revtown. Today, he’s the co-founder of PECOS Outdoors, an e-commerce company that produces outdoor gear.
How to Write a Stellar Job Description
A job description describes the responsibilities of a position and also highlights the company's vision. Besides, it is an opportunity to attract all the potential and suitable candidates that might make a difference to your organization. And that is why it is imperative to create a job description that highlights all the needs of the vacancy, so you don't have to spend hours or days to find a person that ticks all the right boxes.
Intent Data Shows Interest. Network Signals Drive Action.
Network signals reveal the warm paths that turn static data into real conversations. They show which investors, advisors, or customers can connect you directly to your next opportunity, no cold outreach required. This piece breaks down how intent data lost its edge, why network signals are the missing link, and how modern GTM teams are combining both to win faster, warmer deals.
How to Ask Investors for a Warm Intro (And Actually Get One)
Have you heard that sellers are focusing on their networks to sell now and you have no idea where to start? You can start building your network today.
Go-to-Network: What It Is, and Why It’s the Future of Growth
We already know from existing research that referred deals close faster, with less negotiation, and higher ACV. But new research has uncovered an additional benefit: they’re contagious.
The Psychology of Warm Introductions: How One Connection Can Change Everything
The fascinating psychology behind warm intros, understand why they work so effectively, and learn how to ethically leverage them to transform your professional life—without feeling sleazy or transactional.
Stop the Bottleneck: Scaling Relationship Capital Beyond the CEO
How leaders can move from being the primary connector to building a scalable, firm-wide relationship asset.
Warm Intros and 2X Conversion from Call to Opportunity
The Swarm enabled uMed to automate and scale relationship-based outreach with a centralized, searchable combined network organized by strength of relationships. By leveraging their extended network, uMed uncovered new opportunities and faster conversions in both business development and fundraising.
Two Sigma Ventures Scales Up Portfolio Intros with The Swarm
Two Sigma Ventures' adoption of The Swarm highlights a shift in venture capital, emphasizing the need for tools that harness and simplify the use of professional networks at the company level. It underscores the industry’s recognition of the value in providing founders with accessible, actionable connections that can drive their companies forward.
20% more demos and 2X lead quality with The Swarm
They can lean on existing relationships and shared experiences, on top of fit and intent signals, to move deals forward and accelerate their growth.
The New GTM Playbook: Relationships Are the Key to Sales Success
The new GTM playbook is about building relationships and leveraging influence to drive deals forward. It’s no longer enough to rely on cold outreach and a flood of emails. The winners in today’s market will be the ones who tap into sales data 2.0 and capitalize on their network’s power.
Fresh Insights From Our Event: Uplevel your VC Network
The webinar emphasized the critical role of network operations in venture capital, highlighting how VCs have always relied on their networks for sourcing investment opportunities. The ability to map and leverage relationships is now recognized as essential across various aspects of a VC fund’s performance, including fundraising, deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio support.
The Go-To-Network Playbook (in Ten Actionable Insights)
Here's a practical playbook with ten insights for startup leaders focusing on building and leveraging their networks!
Goodbye Cold Outreach, Hello Warm Relationships: Activate Your Company Network
Experts explain the tactical, network-based approaches companies should take to succeed in 2023 — and why they matter: Richard Cho (Advisor & Former Chief Recruiting Officer at Gem), Nolan Church (CEO at Continuum), David Connors (Co-Founder & CEO at The Swarm). Panel event moderated by Opal Franklin (Events Lead at The Swarm).
The Swarm is acquiring Commsor
If you’re a revenue leader looking to scale up warm intros, or if you're building on people and relationship data, it's time to switch to The Swarm.
How Whispered Uses The Swarm to Reveal the Invisible Exec Job Market
Executive hiring runs on two invisible assets: unposted roles and trusted relationships. Whispered combines both into a single solution, where The Swarm helps map and turn relationships into opportunities.
How AiSDR Uses The Swarm for Smarter Enrichment at Scale
In outbound, speed and personalization win. By powering AiSDR’s enrichment layer, The Swarm helps sales teams book more meetings with their ideal prospects.
How Howdy Sales Boosts Pipeline With Signal Stacking and Network Intelligence
The numbers speak for themselves: 16% reply rate on hyper-targeted outreach campaigns by combining AI-driven signals with The Swarm’s relationship data.
