Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

In 2009, the founders co-wrote a book called “Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs ” in which they included snippets of exclusive eBooks and offered the full content for free in exchange for an email address. 2009: 1,150 customers. 2009: 96 employees. 2009: Unknown. 2007: 48 customers.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”? And so we started to work on this in 2009.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

I remember about three years ago, Marc Benioff gave some interview and he said his biggest regret was not continuing to hire sales professionals through 2009, his number one regret. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. And every vendor was just staring at each other like the world’s dead.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

Outreach produces incredible industry leading events like their Unleash Conference and their city-by-city Unleashed Summit Series road shows which will resume once people are allowed to take road shows again, along with top notch, thought leadership content. Matt Rizzetta: It was late 2009. Check them out at www.outreach.io.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

2020 is not the same as 2009. At least, those of us who were CEOs in 2009 sort of know what to do at an operating level. Folks in SaaS that were CEOs and execs in ’08-’09 have seen some of this before. We will do a webinar ourselves on this next week. But it might end up being pretty similar in SaaS. We’ll see.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2019

Parker Conrad: So probably for me, the biggest one was at the very first company that I started. We went out to raise a series B round in January of 2009, which was the absolute worst time to raise a round of venture capital funding. And our company was in like, no position to do it. What moment has change the way you think?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop.

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