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From $800k to $274M in 4 Years - The Story of Ariba

Tom Tunguz

In particular, Ariba sold software to run RFPs, manage contracts with suppliers, analyze corporate spending and ensure financial compliance. in sales and marketing efforts in the years before generating more than $200 million in revenue. Ariba enjoyed terrific sales efficiency through its first three years.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It was initially compliance focus. And so again we would just have added to more kind of friction in the sales cycle and there was a whole video long sales cycle. Look, this is not just about compliance, it’s about every vertical. We opened a small sales office in Wework. So we follow with our customers.

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5 Shifts to Move to Mega-Deal Thinking & Catch Whales: Overcoming Small-Deal Syndrome (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

This video training was originally presented at the 2019 Sales Hacker Success Summit. Why mega deals aren’t just for sales superheroes. Hey, my name’s Jamal Reimer, and I am an enterprise sales rep at Oracle. Both were individual contributor roles as an individual sales contributor. What You’ll Learn.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 17, 2019

SaaStr

And that’s how we were able to then survive from 2002 til about 2007, when the cloud market finally took off. So I want to discuss, first you mentioned the BigMachines, and post sales Oracle, you did version 2.0 But Max was struggling to build sales, to build a company around it. So it was really a near death experience.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence. It was acquired by eBay in 2002 but split in 2014. Customer Support. Salesforce. billion and $60m revenues.

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From Freemium to Enterprise with Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Kevin Egan, Slack’s VP of North American Sales and Dannie Herzberg, Slack’s Director of Sales as they walk you through Slack’s Freemium to Enterprise strategies. Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales @ Slack. Dannie Herzberg, Head of Mid-Market Sales @ Slack. Want to see more content like this?

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PODCAST 111: Prospecting and Researching in Today?s Brave New World with Peter Wooster

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Peter Wooster , a 25-year veteran of technology sales and executive management who is now running his own consulting firm, Wooster Advisors. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Our second sponsor is Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform.

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