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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. 20 VCs do come to me to invest in the company now. Jyoti Bansal: Let’s switch topics to sales.

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The First Generation of the Talent Software Wars

Tom Tunguz

Both companies eventually offered talent acquisition, performance management, and learning tools for human resources teams. Taleo initially focused on recruiting tools and SuccessFactors on performance management. in December 2011, and Oracle bought Taleo for $1.9B But they started in different places. in February 2012.

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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

SaaStr

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. Now, I just invest in SasS companies. SaaStr is Turning 10!

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PODCAST 86: Strategic Vs Tactical Approach in Sales Planning with Mary Rogul

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Mary Rogul , a VP Sales Consultant, who’s currently an Enterprise Sales Advisor at Crayon. Fresh out of college, Mary started out in accounting, but it didn’t take long before she began a 20-year sales career that led her through Monster.com, HubSpot, and several others.

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The Toughest Roadblocks When Breaking Through to $15M ARR

SaaStr

Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. We invest all over the country and very much in Europe as well including Paris. I co-founded Talkdesk in 2011. So we tried to recruit people from abroad. Thanks for joining us.

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SaaStr Podcast #364 with Figma Head of Sales Kyle Parrish

SaaStr

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Kyle made his way into the world of SaaS and sales and came to be Head of Sales at one of the fastest-growing companies in Figma. What worked?

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From Bootstrapped to Category Leader: Lessons from Zapier’s Founders

OpenView Labs

Since our founding in 2011, we’ve come a long way. We continue that practice today, and extend it to include roles that aren’t typically exposed to customers—operations people, accountants, recruiters, etc. We focused on addressing customers’ specific challenges rather than a broad and generic sales pitch.