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

SaaStr

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? Felix Van de Maele, Co-Founder and CEO of Collibra, will be joined by Teddie Wardi, Managing Director of Insight Partners, to unpack how he built a unicorn company from idea to conception to record growth. Felix : Yes.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

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. This podcast is an excerpt of Claire’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. You can read the full transcript of the session below.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

Source: Byteant , December 2019. 5000 Rank in 2019 in the security industry. A SaaS-based Apple fleet management platform, Fleetsmith automates device setup, intelligence, patching, and security for Apple devices. In 2019, Intercom was reported to generate $50 Million annual recurring revenue. billion valuation in 2019.

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

SaaStr

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? Podium, an interaction management platform for local businesses, was founded in Utah and grew from five employees in 2015 to more than 300 in 2019 to become one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the United States. Why is this?

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

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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How and Why to Use Podcast Marketing? 7 SaaS Companies Advise

Natalia Luneva

We recently hit 33k downloads and have seen tremendous traction through social media with brand mentions since its start in 2019. Our most popular episode was with Sophia Kunthara, formerly at SF Chronicle and now a reporter at Crunchbase News, back in June of 2019. You have to be different to breakthrough in this space. .

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How Companies do Software Training and Onboarding

Upscope

Soon I'll also be using software for SOC2 certification management, product management, recruitment and any process which can be handled better by a system rather than an Google Sheet. In some ways most apps are just competing against Google Sheets! Data from Chief Martech. It's called the "SaaS Sprawl".