SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. I was amazed by how big Salesforce was in the ecosystem.

Payment Solutions 149

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 149

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. The team has grown quite a lot, but it’s still tiny: we’re now close to 40 people in 13 different countries. From day one, when we launched Close in January 2013, we wanted to own Close.com.

Sales Hiring 184

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales 184

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. In 2013, Thiago joined Resultados Digitais, one of the most renowned SaaS businesses in Latin America. Talk: Sales is a Team Sport.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 million in 2013 to $115.9 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2014.). This is what we did.

Part-Time VPE 224

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 224

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. Kyle was in charge of creating the Austin, Texas sales team @ Dropbox, what were some of his biggest lessons when it comes to moving sales outside of HQ? What worked? What did not work?

Sales Hiring 195

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Advisors 195

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company. They were started in 2013 here in France, and have since grown into France and Germany. Okay, it’s not bad. So, two teams cater to practices.

Sales Recruiting 107

Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 107

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 11, 2021

If you’re asking yourself how much time, energy, and finances you should be investing into developing your content, look no further. Whatever marketing strategy you choose, use Baremetrics to monitor your sales data. Baremetrics makes it easy to collect and visualize all of your sales data. Try Baremetrics free.

Content Marketing 113

Content Marketing SaaS Payments Investment Marketing 113

User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female. I got my masters in Computer Science and I had different roles since I joined tech companies in 2013, in different roles: product, design, engineering.” Because he is.

Technical Review 104

Technical Review CTO Coach Sales Hiring CTO Hire 104

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company. They were started in 2013 here in France, and have since grown into France and Germany. Okay, it’s not bad. So, two teams cater to practices.

Sales Recruiting 108

Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 108

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team.

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Technical Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 199

GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. I spent years researching the psychology behind purchase decisions and used that knowledge to develop a four step conversion optimization process deeply rooted in emotional marketing. Here’s an example of this thinking system in action.

Payment Methods 122

Payment Methods Marketing Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 122

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 12, 2020

And perhaps more importantly, how can you develop it? There’s only really one way to develop product judgment and that’s through direct interaction with your customers. Create a safe environment for sound product judgment to develop by ensuring feedback is immediate, clear and concrete. ” What is it?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

And my first investment ever in 2013, in the old, old days, was Pipedrive which ended up selling for well over a billion dollars cash during the peak. But it sounds like the bad news is you’ve got a limited runway. It’s not the investor’s problem if you have an expensive team. You already raised money.

Scale 198

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 198

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

You would probably do it as a way to connect data and analytics and behaviors and workflows across different companies and across different websites to make them all more effective. I mean, if you were a Johnson & Johnson, or you were any of these large manufacturers, you had one person or a tiny little team on Amazon, and that was it.

SaaS Payments 261

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 261

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. Modern sales teams, winning deals using 6sense. Show Introduction [00:09]. Sam’s Corner [34:03].

Scale 98

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Review 98

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

How does David think about scaling sales teams? Number two, you have a team of people that you’ve worked with before and some of whom will come along with you. Do you need business development reps? How should founders think about budget and resource allocation in this search for PMF? Do you need field salespeople?

Scale 190

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 190

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

Today, Bob is President and CEO at The Re-Wired Group , a consultancy that’s helped develop more than 3,500 products and services. For larger companies to best utilize JTBD, you have to filter buyer behavior into quantitative data sets. It’s almost like theory development, to understand how to look at big data.

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Sales Hiring Interviewing Scale Underperforming Technical Team 202

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Since 2013 with their transition to SaaS have grown to more than $50 million in ARR in less than five years, while maintaining profitability. David Skok: The really bad companies, you kind of get that statement from them, well, we missed the number and then you ask them the question, well why did you miss the number?

Outsourcing Services 115

Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Hiring SMB 115

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

Investment 160

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 160

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Prior to Ometria, Pete has been growing SaaS revenue teams for almost 20 years. Outreach triples the productivity of sales teams and empowers them to drive predictable and measurable revenue growth by prioritizing the right activities and scaling customer engagement with intelligent automation. He lives with his family in North Wales.

Sales Hiring 69

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Underperforming Technical Team 69

ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

VC and PE firms now ask founders about the metrics owned by CS teams, specifically NRR and GRR , within the first ten minutes of conversation. You Mon: When I think about being a leader, it’s all about how do I get my team to succeed. This was back in 2013. They’re the proactive team. Boards are asking for it.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Hiring B2B Technical Review 52

ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

VC and PE firms now ask founders about the metrics owned by CS teams, specifically NRR and GRR , within the first ten minutes of conversation. You Mon: When I think about being a leader, it’s all about how do I get my team to succeed. This was back in 2013. They’re the proactive team. Boards are asking for it.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Hiring B2B Technical Review 52

Unbounce

JULY 30, 2019

Common Thread have a lot of data to back them up here. With that in mind, Unbounce has teamed up with a few heavy-hitters of marketing to give you the rundown on how you can start with your holiday campaigns and landing pages today. (So, Ecomm landing pages are particularly bad at answering these kinds of questions.

Scale 111

Scale Branding Underperforming Technical Team AWS 111

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Founded : 2013. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Near is a platform that provides real-time data on places, people and products. It provides smart hardware self-development and cloud service. Founded : 2013.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 . Excellent, great.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 . Excellent, great.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56. Excellent, great. Thank you, Brian.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Prior to that, he led sales teams all over the country, and we’re incredibly excited to have on the show. And every week we’re onboarding three to four to five teams. But I went in and their executive team that came in blew me away.

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VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 74

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

As for Allison, in her 5 years at Gainsight her list of achievements in endless from running all functions that drive value for Gainsight customers, now a 150 person team, to building out the corporate development function to being the right hand to the CEO. How can one approach setting up a services team for scale?

Engineering 26

Engineering Scale Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success 26

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

There’s no data indicating that AI might steal your job. You can either use AI models trained on generic data, like OpenAI, or custom models trained on your own data. Training your own model requires access to data and technical resources but could be a true differentiator in the market.

AI 96

AI Management Data Analysis Technical Review 96

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Seer Interactive – Best for Big Data Search and Content. What makes Seer one of the best content marketing companies on our list is its focus and emphasis on big data. For example, Seer Interactive can instantly look across 20 million keywords, analyzing data from a variety of different angles. Budget: $10,000 +.

Content Marketing 134

Content Marketing Technical Review Marketing Banking 134

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Benchmarking data shows that it’s harder than ever for new SaaS companies to gain initial traction and reach the expansion stage. I challenge you to find one.

Scale 70

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 70

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Benchmarking data shows that it’s harder than ever for new SaaS companies to gain initial traction and reach the expansion stage. I challenge you to find one.

Scale 51

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 51

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Benchmarking data shows that it’s harder than ever for new SaaS companies to gain initial traction and reach the expansion stage. I challenge you to find one.

Scale 40

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 40

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. And so really it became a bad habit. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time?

VP of Engineering 132

VP of Engineering CTO Hire Technical Review Sales Hiring 132