OpenView Labs

MARCH 4, 2021

Today we know of HubSpot —the maker of marketing, sales, and service software products—as a preeminent public company with a market cap above $17B. By the time HubSpot went public in 2014, net revenue retention had jumped to nearly 100%—all without hurting the company’s ability to acquire new customers. HubSpot isn’t an outlier.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

million in 2014.). We had a notable funding round in October of 2014. Hire the VP of Marketing, MBA, the VP of Sales, MBA, the VP of Customer, MBA, the VP of Engineering, MBA, and now, the odds of any semblance of survival, let alone success, are vanishingly small at this point. Which brings me to sales and marketing.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

The first will be sharing five perspectives and things that I found to be useful in adjusting sales in the midst of a crisis or a turnaround. We also challenged the sacred cow, the assumption at the time, that the website was cannibalizing store sales, in the bricks. We’ll break it into three parts. E-commerce is on fire.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

So, Aaron and I wrote a book together in 2014 or something. And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today.

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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). Those on the front lines know that more competition means greater saturation of traditional marketing and sales channels, increasing customer acquisition costs (CAC).

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. Then they found somewhere in like year 2014 and ’15 that they could layer in something like payments as an additional way to monetize their customer base. It is staggering.

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SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. The second decision was the next year, 2014.

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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). Those on the front lines know that more competition means greater saturation of traditional marketing and sales channels, increasing customer acquisition costs (CAC).

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

I’d taken lots of trips and managed a team out there and I decided to basically make the move to the Bay Area in 2014 as a CIO for a company called Qualys. And that’s where you have to have questions about how do you enable other people both in sales leadership and others to represent the company at the executive level?

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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). Those on the front lines know that more competition means greater saturation of traditional marketing and sales channels, increasing customer acquisition costs (CAC).

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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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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

This is 2014 classified right in there you, you in did you pick up consulting clients? So it was the consultant guy, the support guy, and, and, and the sales guy. It’s interesting. So you had you publish all your content on the internet? Or was it was it straight to software? And Daylite does exactly that. put all these together.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Since Sameer joined SendGrid at CEO in 2014, the company has quadrupled its revenue, more than doubled its employees, experienced a successful initial public offering and was recently acquired by Twilio in a transaction valued at approximately $2 billion. We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Remember to always buffer for contingencies, keep in mind that product launches are always late, competition can always increase which may drive press commoditization, or might just cost you more sales and marketing to compete.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 11, 2019

At first there was strong product market appetite, followed by product market demand that helped the company grow phenomenally quickly—the company was #58 and #91 on the 2014 and 2015 INC 500 lists, respectively. It’s almost a point of pride with many of them. Oftentimes they even see it as being productive.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. How does Liat think about challenging the traditional sales model? Harry Stebbings: Finally before Twitter, Liat was a VP of Sales at Revolution Prep where she led and managed seven offices. Loving our podcast content? Pricing? *

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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. The sales team can concentrate on developing customer relationships and converting leads.

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