Upscope

AUGUST 4, 2021

Here’s a useful analogy I found from Max Altschuler, CEO of Sales Hacker, which nicely describes ABM: “Using a traditional marketing approach, you cast a wide net. These campaigns were created using the help of the sales team who had the best knowledge of the accounts.

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Upscope

AUGUST 4, 2021

Here’s a useful analogy I found from Max Altschuler, CEO of Sales Hacker, which nicely describes ABM: “Using a traditional marketing approach, you cast a wide net. These campaigns were created using the help of the sales team who had the best knowledge of the accounts. Founded in 2003, and with an annual revenue upwards of $1.5

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2013

William Gibson, quoted in The Economist, December 4, 2003. Perceived Value is Sales. An entrepreneur shared this quote with me a few weeks ago. The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed. Either the cost/benefit analysis isn’t strong enough or the need isn’t yet apparent to the end user. Cost is Engineering.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 17, 2021

Of 18 to 21-year-olds who weren’t in high school in 2018, 57 percent were in college, compared to 52 percent of Millennials in 2003, and 43 percent of Gen Xers in 1987. You should absolutely use diverse models and messaging, but don’t latch onto Black History Month or International Women’s Day to promote your latest flash sale.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2014

We will explore revenue growth, average revenue per customer, sales efficiency, payback periods, net income, gross margin and engineering spending. HubSpot’s target customer base are SMBs and with this price point, it’s possible to support a profitable inside sales model if the team is very efficient. DATA 2003 10 232.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

Ep 257: Justin Welsh is the former SVP Sales @ PatientPop, the startup that offers the first all-in-one practice growth platform that’s HIPAA-compliant and is proven to grow your practice. During his 5 years at PatientPop, Justin grew sales from $0 to $56m alongside the full build-out of the sales team. Justin Welsh: Yeah.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

We will explore revenue growth, average revenue per customer, sales efficiency, payback periods, net income, gross margin and engineering spending. Founded in 2003, Tableau followed a more gradual revenue growth curve than the median SaaS company. In these plots, I’ve used Tableau’s colors as a consistent legend.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 4, 2020

I learned this lesson in resilience in the spring of 2003 when I was leading the sales team at BMC Software in Houston. Here are four that seem relevant today: Learning resilience #1: Lean towards the obstacles. You need to see yourself on the other side of this crisis.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Or perhaps you work in marketing and are looking for ways to test and optimize your sales funnels. You can easily list your goods for sale, take payments, and fulfill orders – all under one roof. Integrated sales channels – Shopify has strong integrations with other platforms, such as Facebook and Amazon.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 29, 2020

While their competitive landscape differed, all were united in their quest to find new customers and generate incremental sales. Sales were good. They believed, as they still do, that using data to develop personalized customer experiences and brand touch points was the key to a profitable and lasting relationship with their customers.

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Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

In other cases, the reaction was to the realization that customer retention and expansion requires more than a successful sale and a quick launch. Unfortunately, these are often a collection of steps branded as ‘playbooks’ that lack integration with other key processes in sales and marketing. Implementing lean customer success.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 19, 2020

Headed into the global financial crisis a decade ago, a group of almost 3,900 companies worldwide that we ran through Bain’s Sustained Value Creators analysis posted double-digit earnings growth, on average, from 2003 to 2007. Successful growth companies used a few common tactics to boost commercial growth.

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SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

Look at Model T sales or something. Last month, housing sales in the US are actually ahead of last year, like literally ahead. I think it’s more overall more like 2000 to 2003 in Silicon Valley, but there’ll be some industries and some verticals that either aren’t affected as much or snap back very quickly.

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Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

We don’t have any agreed upon budgets, or any sales reps with quotas. Sales quotas and forecasts can hurt your business… and we’ve all seen it Let me start by saying that I live in the same world that you do, one where it’s nearly impossible to avoid being beaten over the head with messaging citing the importance of goal setting.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2019

So, I joined Google early on in 2003. The first engineer that I sat next to … And I was in sales. We were always building a full platform that a sales or a support organization could go and buy. In my past career I was running sales organizations who are used to having a target and having a team.

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In 2003 we realized that CMOs were really struggling with the auction-based nature of media buying in Search and we knew that was a math problem we could solve in a way that would tie directly to their business success. Soren: This was 2003, and I was working as Head of Business Development for a web engineering company in Boston.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 16, 2017

10-25 minutes - Aaron shares how MindTouch now uses a customer success blueprint with each of their customers, which drives alignment not only throughout the sales and onboarding process but also across departments and with relevant executive sponsors. So I went around to the different product teams. Geoff: Sure.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

It started back in 2003, when I joined Omniture, which was an analytics company founded here in Utah. John Mellor: And that year, when I joined in 2003, Omniture did $8 million in revenue. The enterprise sales cycle will take a while, but we’re pretty happy with it. And that was kind of my entree into SaaS.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

Last month, housing sales in the US are actually ahead of last year, like literally ahead. I think it’s more overall more like 2000 to 2003 in Silicon Valley, but there’ll be some industries and celebrated goals that either aren’t effected as much or snap back very quickly. Somehow this defies logic but is true.

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SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley. One, a COO.

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SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley. One, a COO.

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Kellblog

JULY 11, 2020

build quality product, train and scale sales), then it’s almost definitionally not the single most important challenge facing that company. For example, say it’s 2003 and you’re at CRM leader Siebel Systems. The good reason is that it forces “table stakes” conversations, well, “off the table.”

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Now to be fair, this was back in 2003 when it wasn’t that hard to rank on Google (or any other search engine for that matter). Next thing you know I was collecting 5 figures in monthly checks and my “renters” were ecstatic because they were generating sales at a fraction of the costs compared to what they were spending on paid ads.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Founded: 2003. Capstone Partners typically exits investments through a trade sale. Its goal is to provide funding to high-potential tech businesses through its Cradle Investment Programme. Cradle Fund offers grant and equity funding, as well as support through coaching and growth assistance. Size of fund: $9.9M. Founded: 2008.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Net Promoter Score was first developed by Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company and Satmetrix in 2003. Sales – Promoters are a Sale rep’s best friend. Sales staff can get a ton of value from Detractors as well. Breaking Down the Ultimate Question – NPS (Net Promoter Score).

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Machine learning can get the right message or recommendation out in a responsive way – not just from the customer’s next best action, but from the sales perspective, too. If you’re a company that’s already building solutions in this space, your product organization and your sales organization is going to want to own everything.

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Kellblog

JUNE 7, 2020

Another is Salesforce’s systematic move across buyers, from VP of Sales to VP of Service to VP of Marketing. Thus, paradoxically, you likely would have been “dead right” as a BI vendor if you rejected the inclusion of financial planning in 2003. [10] GainSight’s move into product analytics is one example.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Justin Welsh , Founder at The Official Justin. Justin is the former SVP of sales at PatientPop and a current advisor to it, as well as a tremendous number of SMB SaaS companies. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast!

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And by 2003 we were almost out of business. And I started as an engineer and as an MBA and frankly in business school back then they didn’t even have a class on sales. ” And it’s obvious in a way, but for me also as a founder entrepreneur I realized everything I do today is sales. And selling with passion.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 28, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Steven Broudy , Vice President and Head of Sales at Bevy, which helps companies build virtual communities. Steven is a long time SaaS sales executive, having worked at MuleSoft before coming to Bevy. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Founded in: 2003. Since its inception in 2003, Splunk has been at the forefront of data solutions. Founded in: 2003. Xactly is a SaaS company that provides a comprehensive set of sales and finance management products for designing, building, managing, auditing, and optimizing sales compensation management programs.

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