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20 Incredible New Experiences at 2020 SaaStr Annual

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But what’s new this year? Let me make a list: New!! We’re super excited to have partnered with Women in Revenue to bring a mini event-within-an-event for women leaders in SaaS and Cloud. We have a mostly firm rule of “no repeats” for SaaStr events. The headline metrics: 15,000+ attendees.

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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

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The SaaStr Annual is the largest non-vendor event in the industry, with 10,000+ attendees from all across the world coming together each year in the SF Bay Area. We also launched an affiliated $90m venture fund and had our inaugural SaaStr Europa event in Paris of 2018. We were the first major SaaS event back in the SF Bay Area.

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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

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I thought it would be worth drilling down deeper into each of them, and sharing the learnings and mistakes: 1/ Spending less time fixing things, more time recruiting senior folks to own them. No one spends enough time recruiting as it is, after $1m ARR or so. Yes, you can manage the sales team yourself. You can do this.

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How to Stop Micromanaging After $1m-$2m ARR. You Have To.

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A new edition, new services, an outbound sales team, an account management / upsell team. Something new to boost your ACV and TCV. Double your pricing for new customer, on the largest deals. You still need to spend 15-20% of your time in sales. In any event, delegate more.

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

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Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

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Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? Bob Moore: And I was t nerdy engineer in college, so getting the opportunity to have to pitch, it’s really a sales job at the end of the day. Why is this?