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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. In 2017, Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad were all beginning to break out. Which role should you hire for first? Get best price tickets here!!! And for good reason. Mallun : Sure.

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From Freemium to Explosive Growth in a Crowded Market – 8 Years of Learnings with Zoom (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You’ve got to learn about sales, about marketing and, otherwise, you need to hire a lot of other people around you to help. Eric Yuan: Because, at that time, we really needed a product.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

Time and time again SaaS companies are promising customers that they will save hundreds of thousands of dollars, but their pricing strategies are only capturing a tiny fraction of that savings. At the enterprise level, discounting SaaS contracts is expected, not optional. Learn how they succeeded the second time around.

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I don’t we can communicate that. And actually when we started, I see one face in the room that I recognize, Kurt Freytag, was one of our big customers at the time when I joined. So you were the first sales hire. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. So over time, don’t hire resumes necessarily.

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

Instead, there’s one continuous streamlined customer-centric journey, leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, Outreach allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable. Are they hiring?

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How 13 SaaS Companies Use Community Marketing to Grow

Natalia Luneva

Of course, our team is involved to an extent, and we have an external part-time moderator for support. We have 2592 community members now (and counting) ”. Here’s another example of how important community feedback is. #5 Our biggest community is on Facebook, where we have a group for our users, followers and fans.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

in debt from Accel-KKR in November 2017 Wistia, a Cambridge, MA based video hosting company, made waves throughout the SaaS world this July when they formally announced that they had taken on $17.3M in debt from Accel-KKR in November 2017, an enormously difficult decision that has since been generally and rightly lauded in tech circles. “We