SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

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. The ‘haven for programmers’ – GitHub has been providing its services through a SaaS model since 2008.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? And that led me to co-founding a company called RJ Metrics in 2008 with my co-founder Jake Stein, who was also at Insight. I always say kind of tele-sales are the most important form of kind of training in terms of sales.

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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. The keys to great leadership [18:24]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. He now leads the sales function at a really promising and high-growing unicorn called Instabase. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%. Loving our podcast content?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Bill Binch , Chief Revenue Officer for Pendo and a former sales executive at Marketo who, over close to 10 years, helped guide the company through multiple phases of growth including both an IPO and an acquisition. . The challenges of managing a global team. What You’ll Learn.

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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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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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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. So we launched the company in February of 2008. We launched the company in 2008.

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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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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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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It allows us to think more about kind of where we end with the organization, how we interact with the organization, and allows us to spend a lot of time on account management and figuring out how best to kind of create champions out of those customers we have. So 2008 was 10 years ago.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

What you need to know about this story is that I founded the company back in 2008. In 2008, I founded TaskRabbit. These are sales goals. We want to increase sales by 20% this quarter and just do whatever it takes to win. How many of you are familiar with TaskRabbit, have you used TaskRabbit? We had to be okay.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In the summer of 2015, Box co-founder Aaron Levie recruited Jeetu Patel to create an open platform where developers could build Box content management into their own products. We did that so we had a way to engage the community at a different level, bring some of our thought leadership and learn from other companies that are there.

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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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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. You could recruit, you could do fundraising rounds, you could do all this stuff and then you would have arrived. Think about that.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Then we needed to hire a sales guy who had experience selling to enterprise. We got the guy who ran enterprise sales at Rackspace. UberConference started as this freemium, kind of funnel builder for later sales product. Dan : We’d start it with sales. As a B2B enterprise company, sales was our first key.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Michelle : During the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. And at the end of the day, that’s a leadership decision from founders of saying, “What kind of place do we want this to be for people to work?” And today, of course, we have a recruiting team. It’s, pretty phenomenal.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

I’ve held a bunch of technology leadership roles in startups, in rocket ships and turnarounds, including about 10 years at Google, and just over three years leading efforts at Evernote. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles. Thank you, Jason and the SaaStr community, for including me.

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