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Losing Sleep? Hiring Has Officially Replaced Cash as a Key Reason Startup Founders Are Up at Night

OpenView Labs

It’s one of my favorite questions, even though it’s really not a financial or operating metric at all. . And the primary burden of your product and GTM execution can fall on an effective technical leader and proven sales executive. Accelerate hiring of internal recruiters. This data point isn’t like our typical benchmarks.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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2021 Financial & Operating Benchmarks: How to Become One of the ‘Haves’ of SaaS

OpenView Labs

For publicly traded companies that are growing 50% or faster, median valuation multiples have increased by an incredible 649% between 2015 and August 201. The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. Here’s what you can do to move the needle: Sales: Sell to the right customer and don’t get too greedy on the initial deal.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. And then I think the other one was a bit harder because we made a transition from perpetual to subscription, which kind of screws up all your metrics. We opened a small sales office in Wework.

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The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. I was a local sales manager or regional manager.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. What were the core mistakes that he made with RJ Metrics? Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? Loving our podcast content?

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A Look Back: Talkdesk, Greenhouse, Algolia and Gainsight Coming Up On $10m ARR

SaaStr

At the very first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , we picked 3 break-out leaders at $5m-$10m, and added Nick Mehta from Gainsight. Daniel, you grew to 3 million in ARR before you hired a VP of Sales. You had all the reps and SDRs reporting to you, managed it all yourself. How’d you manage all that? How did you do that?