SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Kathy Lord, SVP of Sage People explains how asking hard questions, embracing feedback and making personal connections with your customers can move the sales journey from prospect to champion. We have heard a lot of sessions today around ramping up your lead gen, accelerating marketing. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. We’ve gathered LatAm’s leading SaaS founders, executives, and investors – as well as a few international faces – for an unbeatable few days of knowledge and networking.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. He joined me for a conversation on tackling issues that come up as you scale your customer experience. When scaling your customer experience, remember AI can’t simulate human empathy.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

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. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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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. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In April 2019, I stepped into a new job as Vice President of Enterprise and Commercial Sales. . I was excited to join a company with a strong reputation for sales excellence. How do you improve a sales team’s performance when they’re already operating at world-class levels? . The challenge was how. My plan? .

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. On this week’s episode, I caught up with Steli to chat all things sales. When not writing his sales handbook, he’s been overseeing the change from Close.io to Close.com. Short on time?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Two years ago, ZoomInfo CEO and Founder Henry Schuck and his then-VP of Sales Operations, Chris Hays, came up with the bold idea to challenge the sales team to convert 100 leads into product demos in one day. But, at the end of the day, the team did hit that first number. It sounded crazy at first.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

In this session, Anna and Sameer will highlight SendGrid’s journey from growth stage through acquisition and why focusing on people and culture is mission critical to success as a company goes through the scaling process. We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps. Anna Khan | VP @ BVP.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2020

Michael is a member of Revenue Collective, but perhaps most importantly, he’s the chief sales and strategy officer for Compass, that fast-growing real estate behemoth. Michael talks about how he does that at scale and how he thinks about scale. Michael talks about how he does that at scale and how he thinks about scale.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The best sales conferences enrich your team, build knowledge, and offer plenty of networking opportunities (and fun)! Bad sales conferences just feel like a huge waste of time away from you prospects. Scale is the name of the game at Saastr Annual. Unleash is the ultimate Sales Engagement conference.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. That was February 5th, 2019. This episode is sponsored by Outgrow. They had to reinvent themselves.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

As the world’s population grows – and that population migrates online – bots are increasingly being used to address the challenge of helping businesses scale. Des: We’re going to talk entirely about 2019, and this will be mostly looking forward. They got a bad rep, but they’ve come through the other end, I think.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

In this article we will share some enlightening Q&A with our lead investors from our seed, Series A, and Series B funding rounds. Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. Let’s hear what they each had to say. . ChurnZero raised a $2.5

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. There wasn’t a ton of game film on key issues including growth, new market performance, nor the ability to sign and scale grocer partnerships. billion from 2019 to 2020. Has it been easy?

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Totango

DECEMBER 23, 2021

To help you and your team combat this dangerous phenomenon, we’re going to do a series of articles over the next few weeks discussing various burnout and mental health topics. Decreased productivity, a high turnover rate, low engagement, and employees with poor mental and physical health all lead to heavy financial burdens for companies.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Plaid has always been a wartime company and we’re trying to continue to scale that out. We have a very strong kind of developer focus.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2019

But how could I choose between an opening keynote announcing some extremely exciting news for the world of sales tech (can you say Outreach Galaxy?), A lot has changed since I got into the world of sales/marketing technology almost 5 years ago. Why is this a good thing for sales? Here’s what I learned.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. Automation in infrastructure can lead to pretty serious blunders.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. So, let me walk you through that. We were also teachers, we taught in the classroom, so we knew how to teach the first courses. That doesn’t sound too hard.”

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Lessons learned from nine months in enterprise sales [10:18]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we want to put a spotlight on account executives, people like you that are in the trenches making sales. What’s your sales organization’s biggest challenge right now?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Imagine this: a potential customer calls the sales number listed on your website. Your sales person picks it up, answers a few questions, and closes the sale. And while some offer discounts if you have a large team, those prices can quickly add up and get expensive. Remote teams face unique challenges. Reliability.

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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. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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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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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Brian Birkett , the SVP of sales at LeanData. Brian is a long time sales executive and sales leader. He’s responsible for leading global revenue at LeanData. The tenets of a great sales culture. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Series A money is to fund the growth energy and the Series B money and C the expansion and the scale up.

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SaaSOptics

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Based on a 2019 survey, Gartner forecasts that eighty-four percent of new software will be delivered as SaaS , and this percentage is expected to increase as existing providers transition to a subscription-based model. Getting SaaS Accounting and Financial Operations Right in 2022. And this trend will continue. Spreadsheets are old news.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Actually what I found was a little disarming, a little unfortunate, because there was a lot of, I think, bad experiences in the past with corporate venture capital and with earlier stage companies or with other VCs working with CVCs as they were once called. They might be sales operations challenges. ” And not just open ended.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Travis Bryant , Entrepreneur in Residence at Redpoint Ventures and former global head of Sales at Optimizely. Travis began his career designing web portals for car dealerships before joining Salesforce as a Sales Engineer. Why enterprise sales is a team sport.

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ChurnZero

JULY 12, 2019

Perhaps product problems, loss of a key user in the account, a bad use case… Sure, these are some reasons why customers may churn, but the reality is that your churn rate is deeply connected to the quality of onboarding journey your users go through. Do you need to improve team communication? Check Slack. Online meetings?

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 27, 2020

This phenomenon is commonly seen in a few markets: productivity tools (think Calendly , Notion , Zapier or Airtable ) and developer tools (think Datadog , Twilio or Atlassian). Ideally, a cybersecurity tool runs quietly in the background, covering for the CISO and ensuring there are no weaknesses.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 18, 2023

If there’s a story to tell from 2022, it’s that Google’s algorithm updates continue to impact the past, present, and even future of both web development and content creation. Over 80 percent of marketers point to video as a significant source of increased traffic and sales. It’s a vital strategic asset, and it’s not going anywhere.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

Our Recur 2019 conference is wrapped, but the journey toward uncovering subscription truth doesn't have to end. Many companies devote ample time to developing a great product and then strategize pricing as an afterthought. Sales and marketing channels are drying up. This article will break down some key workshop takeaways.

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Navint

MAY 21, 2019

Recurring Revenue Conference presented by Sutton Capital Partners marked its fifth year on May 1, 2019, in beautiful Marina del Rey, California. The theme of retention expanded this year to include discussions on scaling and operating recurring revenue businesses. When it comes to scaling, start planning and preparing early.

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