Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 6, 2015

How do I create the right kind of recruiting process? On November 4, we’ll chat with Kenny van Zant, the creator of high velocity inside sales techniques and flywheel business models. Two weeks later, SaaS Office Hours will host Pete Koomen, founder of Optimizely to talk about product management from the very earliest days.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk. The exchange of value.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Well, you have to build a direct sales force. We said, “How important is Giraffe to you in your recruitment process?”

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk. The exchange of value.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 29, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Todd Caponi , former CRO of PowerReviews about how to sell enterprise software solutions with increased transparency in the sales process. How to evolve your sales posture given the changes in sales conversations over the last 20 years. What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Social selling became a buzzword around 2014 in the sales industry, and it’s already becoming outdated and ineffective for teams that use LinkedIn as just another inbox. LinkedIn profiles were meant to showcase your experience and expertise to recruiters and hiring managers. 1: Show Value in Your Profile. Now reply back.

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SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2023

They hired their first VP of Sales with a wonderful pedigree and experience at some of the hottest startups. because they needed to rebuild the sales team. They rebuilt the sales team and closed some big deals. A good executive recruiter is like a real estate agent or matchmaker. A good recruiter is worth it.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

While some platforms (like Shopify) are free to set up, they can also take expensive fees for each sale. From there, you can either bid for jobs, pitch your services, or communicate with recruiters as a way of landing your desired project. When looking where to sell online, you need to make the best decisions for your business.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

And so again we would just have added to more kind of friction in the sales cycle and there was a whole video long sales cycle. We opened a small sales office in Wework. Sales our marketing for Europe is mostly in London where we have about 35. So that’s how I’m rationalizing it now. Felix : Yes.

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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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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 8, 2019

They’ve got topics from designing killer sales calls to strategies on scaling from $1M to $500M ARR , with names we know like Chief Instigator Dan Martell, tech exec and angel investor David Kellogg, former CRO at Castlight Health and former COO at OpenDNS Michele Law, plus Intercom COO Karen Peacock.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

If you go back to 2014, when we were building that part of our product, it was kind of the Wild West back then as far as browser extensions go. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams. We were very, very focused on that fit – to be even more specific, on growing sales teams for high-tech products. What is the pain?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

The team is typically highly cross-functional, working together with sales, product, engineering, and marketing, and the goal is to help the other teams make better decisions through data and financial modeling. In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 6, 2020

Founder Annette Franz shares a quote from sales expert Zig Ziglar that shows how a people-first philosophy is your business growth strategy: “You don’t build a business. Have you been forced to inherit hand-me-down sales tools that weren’t built with the Customer Success Manager (CSM) in mind? The good news is that….

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Barrett Boston , Chief Revenue Officer at TriNet. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales.

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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. It records an average of 32 payment transactions per active account. Customer Support. Raising a $2.8

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Who’s going to lead sales? Who’s going to be responsible for recruiting? By 2014 it was worth a billion. But after you raise money and you have a couple of employees, suddenly there are some hard decisions to make. Who’s going to lead product? Who’s going to lead tech? The entire time.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2018

Before we get into our 2017 recap and 2018 road map, I wanted to provide some quick background on how Sales Hacker came to be. How It All Began: The Story of Sales Hacker. I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since we threw our first Sales Hacker Conference in September of 2013. 2014: Full Time on Sales Hacker.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2020

Hear his top tough management lessons and mistakes he learned along the way to founding what is now a $3.8 Live Ramp, a middleware company that connects marketing applications was acquired by Acxiom in 2014 for $310 million. The first thing is, and this is a little crazy, but recruitment is incredibly overrated. Billion company.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I started as an engineer and as an MBA and frankly in business school back then they didn’t even have a class on sales. ” And it’s obvious in a way, but for me also as a founder entrepreneur I realized everything I do today is sales. And I think most of your teams, you need sales engineers, you need founders.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. 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. This is really founder-led sales. We call that a second act.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We saw amazing organic website traffic results in our peak publishing years, 2014 to 2018. In 2014, we published 422 articles — eight blog posts a week! “In the long term, we want to look at metrics like MQLs [marketing-qualified leads], SQLs [sales-qualified leads], and revenue generated. It was (and is!)

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. So that’s one I actually tell the recruiters at Stripe, their job is to flag when they think it’s a no hire.

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Brian Balfour

OCTOBER 13, 2017

This post is the HubSpot Sales case study that illustrates the concepts of the 4-Fits Framework, a 5 post series in which I explain the four frameworks you need to align to grow to a $100M+ company. When I joined HubSpot in January 2014 the mission was clear. The high level first version for HubSpot Sales looked like this: Category.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. Heidi Jannenga : When we’ve again, first started going out and looking for funding, everybody wants to amplify your sales strategy. The first thing you bring in your playbook on sales. We schedule a demo in the same day.

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SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

The company was, their sales were quite a bit bigger than the other two companies. The second decision was the next year, 2014. We decided to take a chance, and we hired three engineers in Nashville in 2014. Now, every year on the day of the first event, they put all the events on sale for the following year.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

In 2014, we threw away the entire code base and started from scratch. There is one problem though with this, and that really leads me to the reason why we decided to completely throw away the code base in 2014 and start from scratch. In 2008, I founded TaskRabbit. This was a terrifying thing to take on. We started from scratch.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. Below you can watch me deliver that talk in London’s Roundhouse, or read on for a written account. The term “product-first” is implicitly set up in contrast to what came before, which were mostly sales-driven companies.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. Below you can watch me deliver that talk in London’s Roundhouse, or read on for a written account. The term “product-first” is implicitly set up in contrast to what came before, which were mostly sales-driven companies.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nick Worswick, Global Head of Growth for WeWork. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Showpad is the leading sales enablement platform for the modern seller. They are the leading sales engagement platform. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

” From a sales perspective, how is that going to change sales? The fact that a lot of our portfolio comes in enterprise, they got a lot of sales done or relationship building done around conferences whether it’s-. What if this is 36 months? What if nobody can get on a plane until summer of 2021 the earliest?”

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SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

You may actually need to build a sales team that can serve up market. If you’re a sales force, if you’re a Workday, you sell to the C-Suite and you figure out who you have to go after within the C-Suite, and that works. The enterprise sales playbook that I had used in other companies just did not work at Dropbox.

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