Sales Hacker

MARCH 15, 2022

In the 200th episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Asad Zaman , CEO of Sales Talent Agency (STA), where he rose through the ranks from AE to CEO, earning recognition as Toronto’s Young Professional of the Year (2019). There are over 40K more sales jobs openings than salespeople. How COVID has affected sales salaries.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2019

Gainsight’s customer success software empowers companies to increase revenue and decrease customer churn. Mikkel later founded Zendesk in 2007 while living in Copenhagen, Denmark. In her first six months as CEO of PagerDuty, the company closed the first half of the year with a 95% increase in enterprise revenue.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

That makes up about 35 percent of our revenue now. Jason : You came up with the crazy idea to start Veeva in 2007, just before the worst two years that we’ve experienced in the industry, ’08 and ’09. It’s a balance of revenue, right? Peter : Yeah, balance of the revenue. Peter : Yeah.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 14, 2020

This usually comes from a sudden change of revenue or a sudden change in prices of the products or services needed to deliver on the offer. The WGA members were demanding a share of the revenue generated by their work. The WGA members were demanding a share of the revenue generated by their work. The AMPTP didn’t accept.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Now, I know this looks complicated, but all that is really going on here is Eventbrite took its monetization of ticket sales and re-invested all of that money into new acquisition loops to bring in more event creators (sales, paid acquisition, content marketing). billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 18, 2015

As the chart above shows, both companies scaled revenue rapidly, reaching $100M in revenue 7 years after founding. Company Revenue at IPO, $M Customers at IPO ACV at IPO, $k Year of IPO Years Since Founding. Company Revenue at IPO, $M Customers at IPO ACV at IPO, $k Year of IPO Years Since Founding. in February 2012.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

The chart above shows the forward revenue to enterprise value multiple of all public SaaS companies. forward revenues. To put the figures into perspective, a company generating $100M in revenue next year, growing at more than 70% annually, is worth around $500M. 100M in revenue - not ARR. in 2000 to $71.8M

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 30, 2016

The shift has been revolutionary both in software delivery as well as sales. More than 15% of all software revenue is now generated by software as a service companies, and there are more than 50 publicly traded SaaS companies today. By 2007 there were five IPOs and that number crested at nine in 2013 and 2014.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

It supports them with their go-to market strategy, marketing, sales, customer success, and business development. The company boasts high-level investors and advisors who assist portfolio businesses with their extensive know-how in sales, technology, business development, entrepreneurship, as well as with networking connections.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In board meetings, we scrutinize the efficiency of sales and marketing (S&M) spend, costs of goods sold (COGS), and general and administrative costs (G&A). Imagine if, in 2007, Netflix decided to follow the 70–20–10 rule. Unsurprisingly, many great product bets have come from veering from the 70–20–10 rule.

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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 has achieved amazing revenue growth in their first 7 years as a company growing by more than 12x from $5.7M in 2009 revenue to 2013 revenue of $71M - an 88% CAGR.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Also, there is less pressure on Sales. Instead you should focus on Natural Rate of Growth (NRG) to determine the percentage of recurring organic revenue. This metric is a strong future revenue indicator. Founded: 2007 Known customers: MailChimp, Tesco, Uber, Siemens, Khan Academy Price starts at: $49/month per Agent.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2015

There’s a SaaS company on the other side of the world founded nine years ago that is worth $2B, generates $100M in annual revenue and growing 80% year over year. Xero Income Statement 2007 2008 2009 2010 211 2012 2013 2014. of Revenue -611% -257% -80% -41% -37% -50%. The company reached $62M in revenue in year 7.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Founded in 2007, MobileIron is a leader in the Mobile Device Management sector. MobileIron went public on Jun 12, 2014 with $100M in revenue and more than 6,000 customers. We will explore revenue growth, average revenue per customer, sales efficiency, payback periods, net income, gross margin and engineering spending.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

SaaS gross margins have been getting attention lately as investors dig into SaaS cost structures and revenue growth rates going into 2020. Gross margin is simply revenue minus cost of revenue, expressed as a percent. The average revenue for this group was $171M. Have SaaS Gross Margins Improved Over Time?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 24, 2020

It doesn’t matter what company you work for; what stage you’re at in your sales career; or whether you prefer to use emails, phone calls, or LinkedIn messages when you’re prospecting — the biggest problem that all sales and customer success reps struggle with is still the same: ensuring your ideal prospects convert.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The company’s own marketing and sales tools are pretty useful. You’ll have your products and brand featured on a website that has an annual net revenue of $386.06 Being featured in a sale like this would be great for any business. Posting a basic Craigslist ad with the right images can help drive sales.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In 2007, he and his wife started their own online store. Silent Sales Machine Radio. For those with their ears perked, the online session will feature: How to optimize for revenue per visitor or cart conversion rate. She will also share knowledge about tools you can use to optimize your purchase funnel and grow your revenue.".

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

In late 2007, a pair of roommates found themselves scraping their wallets to come up with enough cash to cover their exorbitant San Francisco rent. So too has Gainsight’s revenue. Over the past few years, Gainsight has grown its revenue more than 1,000% and increased its customer base with brands such as Adobe and Workday.

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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. Since 2010, the combined company has produced healthy revenue growth.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In 2007, he and his wife started their own online store. Silent Sales Machine Radio. For those with their ears perked, the online session will feature: How to optimize for revenue per visitor or cart conversion rate. She will also share knowledge about tools you can use to optimize your purchase funnel and grow your revenue.".

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2019

But even though they often seem like a silver bullet for revenue, large clients also come with a serious set of demands. At Google, he and his team are using artificial intelligence for the sales and marketing data they collect on customers through support experiences, product deployments and inside the sales pipeline itself.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

So, what was like the 10X feature … whenever it was, a million in revenue, two million, what let MailChimp break out for real from the competition? How big were you were … but you still managed to get to a couple million in revenue but you were not a differentiated tool at that point? Even though the revenue paused.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 23, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Derek Grant , VP of Sales from SalesLoft about building a successful pipeline with the best sales outreach strategies. How to build and lead sales teams and how to build the next generation of managers. How to make sales relevant in a world of content overload.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2019

With one startup acquired by Yahoo in 2005, another acquired by Google in 2007 and a background as an M&A lawyer, Craig’s perspective on M&A is insightful for any startup founder looking to acquire another company. You then started another voice company, which was acquired by Google in 2007. So it’s funny.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

But I mean, if you go back to 2006 2007 2008 like that, yeah, that was just not a thing that people did. So it was the consultant guy, the support guy, and, and, and the sales guy. No, nobody had made one one euro revenue that. Like the way that we do it. Now we take it for granted now. Alf Ruppert Yes. put all these together.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 28, 2018

When I moved to Silicon Valley in 2007, self-serve software was all the rage. Self-serve software is great, but startups need humans, especially for sales, support and success. Until computers start making all the buying decisions and learning to close a sale on their own, you can’t rely solely on automation and the self-serve model.

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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! It’s about scale and revenue. It was early 2007 the iPhone was announced. It wasn’t actually available until later.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

What if sales reps can really harness the full potential of the pricy software tools we thought would turn us into sales superstars? Goodbye missed quotas; hello sales engagement!). When science and sales meet, sparks fly. RELATED: What is Sales Engagement? Sales Engagement: A Billion Dollar Market.

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Totango

MAY 27, 2022

It lets your product do the talking, departing from a sales-led growth strategy that depends on a conventional sales pitch. SaaS businesses adopt product-led marketing to lower customer acquisition costs while improving customer retention and accelerating revenue growth. What Is Product-led Growth (PLG)? What is PLG?

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2007. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Leading commerce platform Shopify helps merchants set up and manage their business and stores across various sales channels.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Blake Bartlett , Partner at OpenView. He’s been a VC since 2007, and prior to OpenView was at Battery Ventures, where he invested in companies like Glassdoor, Wayfair and Optimizely. VPs of sales/marketing need to be flexible and willing to reinvent themselves.

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In its early years, Workday spent well in excess of its annual revenues on sales and marketing. times more on customer acquisition than annual revenues, and in 2007 it spent nearly 18 times more than annual revenues. Sales & marketing costs still represent the single largest expense for Workday.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. What that does is not only did it accelerate the top line revenue for Shopify, but it dramatically opened up their total addressable market on a revenue basis. . This is really founder-led sales. It is staggering.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 7, 2015

The intrinsic data and people network effects of the business create reinforcing feedback cycles that have helped the business achieve tremendous revenue growth. In 2007, the Premium Subscriptions generated 53% of the revenue. In 2007, online sales generated 63% of revenue.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

How do good founders respond to questions on not achieving sales targets? #2: 3: Godfather of Sales John Barrow on How To React When a Lead Goes Dark. About the episode: John Barrows is essentially the Godfather of Sales. How did John make his way into the world of SaaS and more specifically sales optimization?

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