Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

More companies adopt the idea of qualifying buyers through a product embracing the benefits of product-led growth including faster sales cycles, greater ARR per employee, and quicker account expansion make PLG the dominant GTM strategy. Scoring last year’s predictions: The direct listing becomes the standard path to IPO.

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SaaStr

MAY 20, 2020

Lemkin (@jasonlk) December 31, 2019. You will be able to do a secondary sale of some of your shares if you continue to do well. Recruiting is hard. Young Me, 2011 : But what if we can’t IPO? What if we’re not that good? Old Me, 2020 : There will be other options. That’s just math. Old Me 2020 : I know, I know.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As for Ryan, prior to G2 he was Senior Director of Global Marketing at Hubspot where among many other achievements, he scaled HubSpot’s marketing-generated sales revenue by 330% year-over-year. This podcast is an excerpt of Romain’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. How does Ryan think about the relationship between the two?

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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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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 8, 2020

According to First Round’s 2019 State of Startups report , sales leadership is the most difficult hire to make. And with sales being a top priority for founders…. …along with it getting harder to recruit top-quality talent… Image: State of Startups. See, hiring and sales aren’t dissimilar.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Manage People. This is one of the best things you can do, because 50% of the job of a CEO is recruiting a team, leading a team, empowering a team, convincing a team. Manage anyone you can, even if it’s not perfect. note: updated in 2019 from original post). To help, my top 5 suggestions for CEOs-in-waiting.

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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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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

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. His sales focused, actionable content made an impact on the audience. Salesloft is a sales engagement platform that helps companies understand their customers’ needs and respond to them meaningfully.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

2019 SaaS Awards Announced – Appealie Honors Best Product and Leaders in SaaS. . APPEALIE has announced the winners of the 2019 SaaS Awards, including inaugural executive and investor awards. The 2019 APPEALIE SaaS Award winners are presented below. . OVERALL SAAS AWARD WINNERS. ABOUT APPEALIE.

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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. Was it the simple CAC to LTV and then thinking about sales rep payback period?

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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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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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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

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. So we did about 442 million in sales last year. The top 25 freight forwarders combined to do 100 billion a year in sales. Rely on your success, know you are doing something right and scale faster.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. Worked as an AE and then a sales manager. Decided to go to business school, did that for a little bit and then came out in management consulting, a company. So, they’re a B2B piece.

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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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OpenView Labs

MARCH 29, 2019

strategic narrative) has permeated its ranks because they’re usually staffed by a mix of sales, marketing and product people. Or haven’t permeated those ranks: One sales rep told me if I wanted to hear a really good version of the pitch, it was too bad because his CEO, who would be back shortly, was really good at that.

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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

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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Teamgate

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software is used to increase business productivity by enhancing marketing, sales and customer service functions. More Sales. Companies have experienced 65% more sales by replacing traditional processes with a CRM system. Therefore, the sales team receives highly qualified SQLs.

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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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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

When I first wrote this article, we were in a very different place, with unemployment at an all-time low and sales hiring a top priority. Part two of this scorecard series will help you create a sales interview scorecard to land that sales role you’ve been dreaming about. Sales chops. What sales system do we use?

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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

MARCH 17, 2021

Tom Holahan joined OpenView in 2019 as a Vice President. Dan Heck joined OpenView as a Vice President in 2019. He has the unique ability to move between strategic and tactical level of analysis, from positioning opportunities in the context of larger market trends, to discerning actionable sales and marketing insights.”

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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. Women Sales Pros. Women in Sales. Utah Women in Sales.

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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. Check it out.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 10, 2019

First up, a chalk-full Twitter thread by Userpilot’s Aazar Ali Shad on product-led growth, an Appcues x Salesforce launch, plus the Product Marketing Alliance dropping its 2019 State of Product Marketing. And if we look at the product-led vs. sales-led approach, there’s a solid juxtaposition here. Your top subscription news.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

INBOUND 2019. INBOUND 2019 is here. Thanks to HubSpot, industry professionals are putting their heads together in Boston to talk everything marketing and sales. Recruit your friends into the subscription know by sending them to recurnow.com to sign up for episodes on the daily. Today's Top Subscription News.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

That’s triple the rate of 2020 (100%) and double that of 2019 (165%). . The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. Hiring managers should prepare by putting together pitch materials (usually a 2-3 page deck) to give candidates a deeper look at your company and culture – beyond what’s on your website.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 17, 2021

You should absolutely use diverse models and messaging, but don’t latch onto Black History Month or International Women’s Day to promote your latest flash sale. Food delivery services saw big sales growth during the coronavirus pandemic. .” Say you’re in fashion e-commerce. Treat Gen Z as Adults in Paid Ads. Good: Just Eat.

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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. And the reality is most of them don’t, most of our customers and prospects don’t trust us, especially those of us in sales. ” I think the same shift is happening in recruiting.

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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

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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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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