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 was early 2007 the iPhone was announced. I’m like, “Where can I talk to a sales rep?”

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

That was in no small part due to having a board that was aligned with David’s vision. It’s like, “Oh, remember the good old days when there was a few good people, but then we had to hire. Then we had to hire more. Then that guy hired his people. That is the whole point of this system. Everything cool?”

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2022

. “As cloud and SaaS companies were starting to erupt and take off and get funding, we started to see this dilemma of customers churning” It was in 2007, which is not that long ago, but when we think about technology, that was eons ago. 2007 was when the iPhone was launched and when LinkedIn finally became profitable.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Aside from the areas outlined below, you need to hire or train sales reps who are capable of selling at an Enterprise level. That’s five or more months of ramp, and likely a whole year of burning cash to get the new sales team ready. Embedding your system into a workflow. Post-Sale Delivery and Enterprise Service.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

But two other software engineers, building [inaudible 00:04:24] that was kind of a time and expense software system. 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

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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. Jessica Lin : Awesome.

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