SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Afterward, he delved into education management by creating his own business, Mestreduca, a platform targeted at educational institutions. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Recently, Recorded Future were honored with the 2018 CRN Tech Innovator Award.

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SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

The list below shows the different categories of mental model in this post: Planning Prioritisation Problem-Solving Innovation Getting Work Done Growth Economics Psychology Learning Planning 1. Innovation 14. Horizons Framework Another innovation model is the Horizons Framework developed by McKinsey. Source: Drift 35.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Paula Shannon , Chief Evangelist at Lilt , a machine learning company focused on language translation. Join us for an engaging conversation about language, sales, career success, and embracing cultural differences in leadership. What has changed in sales over the last two decades.

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Artificial Intelligence Sales Hiring Technical Review Machine Learning 75

InsightSquared

MARCH 8, 2021

I transitioned from education to software in 2008, and I have held roles in everything from project management to sales. Today, I direct Field Enablement for the sales organization. Instead, companies must understand how bias shows up in the workplace (hiring, promotions, day-to-day interactions, meeting dynamics, etc.)

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Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 62

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Have you ever wondered how to become a VP of Sales? By the time I was 30 years old, I was working at Oracle (via startup acquisition) helping them build the #1 performing SaaS sales team in my region. At the time, I had two years as a VP of Sales under my belt. How can you become a VP of Sales? So how did I do it?

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 69

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Before Sprout Social he was VP of Sales at Shoutlet, responsible for global direct and channel sales teams and developing and managing strategic relationships. What was the founding moment with Zylo?

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 137

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

I have seen my fair share of storms and or crises from the early days of the dot-com boom and bust to 2008, 2009 crisis and then having a front-row seat at some of these turnarounds that iconic brands like Evernote, and more recently on the board at Gap which is undergoing its own transformation. .”

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Leadership 237

SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Anthony made his way into the world of SaaS starting in the sales team at Box and how that led to his entering the world of marketing and creating the customer success category. * How does this compare to the relationship of sales and marketing more traditionally?

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Branding 168

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

Prior to Work-Bench, Jessica was a Learning and Development Manager at Cisco Systems, where she worked with the Engineering organization on Agile transformation, innovation and culture. Where does Jessica find managers and founders do pipe reviews wrong? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts?

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Sales Recruiting Technical Review Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 169

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What content and learnings should you have in place when you make the hire? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? Why is 12 months so crucial?

Scale 183

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 183

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Recently, Recorded Future were honored with the 2018 CRN Tech Innovator Award.

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SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

In this conversation, a16z Growth general partner Sarah Wang speaks with Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore about his new book, Ecosystem-Led Growth: A Blueprint for Sales and Marketing Success Using the Power of Partnerships. Or, “are my sales reps selling into the same companies as your sales reps?” So we start at the top of the funnel.

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Scale Technical Review AI Sales Hiring 103

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify, and Gremlin all prior guests on the show, I hasten to add. What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * Where should the responsibility for upsell lie, customer success or sales?

Scale 112

Scale SMB Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 112

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Jason Vandeboom is the Founder of ActiveCampaign, a sales and marketing automation platform that enables small businesses around the world to meaningfully connect and engage with their customers. Fred Shilmover is the CEO and co-founder of InsightSquared, one of Boston’s premiere tech startups paving the way in the sales intelligence space.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Hiring SMB 112

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

And when we met Mary, we were just lucky that it was a great mix of having those deep finance roots and then thinking about it in a truly innovative and kind of a forward-leaning way. Zach : As we built our sales team, initially it was basically all self-service with a couple human interactions.

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 142

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Anthony Kennada , CMO at Front. If you missed episode 86 , check it out here: PODCAST 86: Strategic Vs Tactical Approach in Sales Planning with Mary Rogul. Anthony’s journey from sales to product to marketing. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring B2C 54

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

I have seen my fair share of storms and or crises from the early days of the dot-com boom and bust to 2008, 2009 crisis and then having a front row seat at some of these turnarounds at iconic brands like Evernote, and more recently on the board at Gap, which is undergoing its own transformation. .” It can really vary.

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Scale Sales Hiring Pricing Sales Recruiting 177

ProfitWell

MAY 18, 2020

Beauchamp said the economic downturn facilitated the hiring of, typically expensive, engineering talent. Hiring without money in the bank presented a challenge, but she said offering part-time hours or equity in the business was a good solution. It launched November 2008 with only $30,000 in the bank. Noodles by mail?

Data 52

Data Sales Hiring Customer Lifetime Value Subscription 52

SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

And this goes back to ten years ago, which was 2008 and we released the ten laws of cloud computing at a CEO conference that we had that was meaningfully smaller than this. Everyone we hire is an integral part of the team, and so use hiring as a big lever.

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Cloud Scale Finance Retention 162

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

Finally, before that, Amit was the Founder & CEO @ SparkThis, an outsourced marketing and sales service for cloud companies. What must you account for with regards to multi-year deals? How do you know when you have the right pricing mechanism in place from the sales cycles of the reps?

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Outsourced Development Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Scale 128

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

From that point on, we built a product and we launched it in February of 2008 out of a back of a coffee shop with one employee. Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. I would’ve had to hire IT staff to deal with hardware. We schedule a demo in the same day.

Scale 166

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 166

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

And then the sale will commence as far as the people and this was, we were multiple millions of dollars of revenue until I took the first call. That means lots and lots of hiring and I don’t want to say firing, we did fire anyone, but people get reshuffled, you know? Jonathan : Did you have to do any sort of big steps hiring wise?

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Scale Business Sales Hiring CTO Hire 138

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

“A majority of the innovations that we’ve seen our customers build, we had never imagined when we were building the platform” With that model of taking an apps business and importing it over to your platform, the biggest cognitive dissonance that happens is, you don’t start out with a very predefined, prescribed set of use cases. .

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

Scale 123

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 123

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

What you need to know about this story is that I founded the company back in 2008. The challenge with that is you found a company, you start building a company, you raise money for a company, you hire a team to build the product for a certain type of company, and then the whole consumer changes and you have to adjust.

Scale 113

Scale Marketplace as a Service Sales Recruiting Scaling 113

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Karen Page: I started my career in sales and marketing. We know that innovation can come from anywhere. We can just, “Of course, we’ve seen other people who have hired a first time VP of sales that didn’t work out. Does this idea have legs? Are we solving a critical real world problem?

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Investment Sales Hiring 167

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Manohar Chapalamadugu in 2013, Agile CRM is an Indian SaaS company known for its sales and marketing solutions designed for SMBs. The company aims at providing a single platform for automated marketing, sales, and other services. Agile CRM offers lead generation, contact management, and integrated telephony services.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. For the first 10 years when we didn’t do one media interview and we got to 50 million in sales. Jason Lemkin: Everyone stopped hiring salespeople. Jason Lemkin: Hiring salespeople-. We had it, we knew we could innovate.

Acquisition 123

Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 123

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

We got started in 2008 when we first spotted this sort of new place in investing, which we called seed. And then also constantly to be thinking about r&d constantly be thinking about innovation. Nicole Quinn: [crosstalk 00:01:01]Sure, let her start to talk. Ann: Thanks, we are a very early stage firm. Floodgate is now 12 years old.

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Venture Capital Investment Travel Marketplace as a Service 211

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Ciara : And Shanee is the head of marketing and growth at Crunchbase, leading innovative companies to connect with the people behind them and pursue new opportunities. Ciara : So you guys are all innovators in very unique ways in this area. And it’s very clear in the B2B business from a sales point of view, how it grows.

Enterprise 131

Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team Scale B2B 131

SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. Initially, Zendesk hired people from Denmark, their home country, instead of Silicon Valley because they weren’t aware of the environment. Engineering. Salesforce.

SaaS Payments 19

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Recruiting 19

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify and Gremlin all prior guests on the show I hasten to add. What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * Where should the responsibility for upsell lie, customer success or sales?

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SMB Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 26