SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Recruiting is easier, but the things that don’t change are customers don’t care.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2019

Meet SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders of 2019. Our most popular CEO, COO’s and Presidents that spoke at SaaStr Annual 2019. Gainsight’s customer success software empowers companies to increase revenue and decrease customer churn. His sales focused, actionable content made an impact on the audience.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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ChurnZero

MAY 10, 2019

Top 10 Customer Success Takeaways from TSW 2019. This event brought together thousands of technology leaders from Customer Success, Services, Sales, Product and Marketing. For those who didn’t get to attend, or for those that attended and want a recap, we compiled a list of our top ten Customer Success takeaways from TSW 2019.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. That experience led to his bestselling book, The Sales Acceleration Formula. I just don’t think sales have anything to do with product-market fit. A data-driven framework for scaling.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2019

For software and SaaS companies, in particular, having the right affiliate partners can help them scale their business to the next level by driving more online sales. Join FastSpring’s Affiliate Marketing Manager, Mark Jacobs on August 22nd, 2019 at 10 AM PT to learn how you can grow software sales with affiliate marketing.

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SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2020

That was the most over the top entrance that the sales leader for a company that moves boxes around the world has ever gotten. I’m Chief Revenue Officer at Flexport. So we did about 442 million in sales last year. The top 25 freight forwarders combined to do 100 billion a year in sales. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And the primary burden of your product and GTM execution can fall on an effective technical leader and proven sales executive. While the motion is slightly different, the genuine excitement that helped you make your first sale or close your first round should be leveraged in selling candidates as well. Cash is no longer a top concern.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

This podcast is an excerpt of Andy’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. I was personally responsible for my action, to any concurrent projects on the delivery side, I was responsible for managing digital marketing, recruiting. That’s an amazing revenue opportunity. Missed the session? We had a pretty big team.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Nothing matters but recruiting and using your personal network. Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a problem in sales too. According to the 2019 State of Sales Performance survey , 73% of teams polled said that less than half of their team were women. Companies and sales teams are missing out on the benefits that diversity brings. Companies and sales teams are missing out on the benefits that diversity brings.

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InsightSquared

AUGUST 14, 2019

In 2019, artificial intelligence (AI) is prevalent in our everyday lives. For sales professionals, AI is not only impacting your personal life, but it will soon influence your professional work too if it hasn’t already done so. Many of today’s forward-thinking companies have already begun using AI in their sales strategies.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

If you take the time to listen, understand and act on what your customers are thinking and feeling, you’ll create an army of advocates and drive topline revenue growth for good measure. I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. So, that was huge.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As you race to close the books on a hopefully successful 2019, it’s worth stepping back and considering what the future will hold for B2B software. OpenView’s experts weighed in with their predictions across product, sales, marketing, pricing, corporate development and talent. Product Managers Will Own a KPI. What do you think?

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Employee Experience (EX) is the journey an employee takes with your organization and is the sum of all employee-employer interactions throughout that employee lifecycle, from pre-recruitment to post-exit. times faster revenue growth ( Sale s force , 2020). Ready to drive better business outcomes?

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. That’s triple the rate of 2020 (100%) and double that of 2019 (165%). . The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. In order for a $1-2.5M

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

“It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” So I would really say as a software company, 2019 was when we were born.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

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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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matt Rizzetta , founder of North 6th Agency, which is a communications and PR firm based in New York City. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to get better at sales [21:37]. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. Revenue Collective is actually a client of theirs.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 20, 2019

During Q1 2019, Intrinsic surveyed over 400 CXO, VP and director-level executives, mostly based in Europe, for their views on the market. The toughest EU country to hire senior sales/commercial talent. As we can see from the above, hiring great sales executives is a major challenge here in Europe. How wrong can they be!

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

It’s 2020 and SaaS buyers are more skeptical and suspicious, more disbelieving, more unconvinced than they were in 2019. But what’s amazing today, the industry is almost doubled at 546 billion in total revenue. And as an entrepreneur, I do consider myself in sales and I believe sales is a noble profession.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Today, we see an NPR-owned app go freemium , a social media management platform is sprouting an IPO (although not a profit), and Vendr raises $2 million to replace your enterprise sales team. Sprout’s 2018 revenue was 99% sourced from software subscriptions, according to Crunchbase. Replacing your enterprise sales team.

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yoursales

JANUARY 9, 2017

SALES STACK 2017: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2017: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2017: THE TOOLS. Want the 2019 list instead? A s a supplier for outsourced sales for SaaS businesses the sales stack is increasingly important. Last year we started listing and classifying the software tools in the sales stack.

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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. 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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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron Ross | CEO @ Predictable Revenue. 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. Jason : Yep.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

Source: Byteant , December 2019. The company recorded a $100 million revenue within just 9 years of its inception in 1999. A leading provider of powerful and affordable IT infrastructure management software, it has over 275,000 customers in 190 countries. 5000 Rank in 2019 in the security industry. Solarwinds.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 28, 2019

SaaStock is a gathering of SaaS Sales Leaders, Founders, VCs, and anybody passionate about building a SaaS business. And make sure you’re following Sales Hacker on Instagram , Twitter , and LinkedIn. Scaling Sales: How to Industrialize a Tribe (June 5th, 1:50 PM). How Can I Get Live Updates? Interviews with Speakers!

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 5, 2021

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How the role of sales development has changed [13:10]. Keeping new sales professionals focused on the mission [18:44]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Kata Nyitrai , head of global sales development for Meero, a fast-growing company in Europe. We’re on iTunes.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 28, 2019

and others stating “WeWork will be ‘the most ridiculous IPO of 2019’” have flushed the news since the preliminary IPO announcement. After scrutiny, the company ultimately purchased those buildings to avoid further conflict, from which Neumann cashed out more than $700 million in a mix of stock sales and debt.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 26, 2019

Whether dealing with onboarding or recruitment, every HR department hopes for a smooth and well-defined employee experience. A successful HR manager leverages metrics to forecast, track and report on new employee onboarding. The Case for Billable Customer Success Wednesday, May 15, 2019 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: Businesses focused on scaling need to think of customer support as a revenue team , not a cost center. With the advent of the subscription economy, support is increasingly responsible for fostering that relationship over time (which can lead to more long-term revenue). That’s a fairly obvious thing.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

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. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

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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