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Bet On Up-and-Comers. But Add One Veteran For Each $10m ARR.

SaaStr

The first type is the kind of management team hired by second+ time founders. They often staff up their teams with folks they already know and have been successful with at their last startup. And if you are, you are going to naturally start off hiring up-and-comers to your first leadership team. And that’s great.

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Hear From These Speakers at SaaStr Annual 2020

SaaStr

We can’t believe it’s already November and there are only four months until SaaStr Annual 2020 , we’re already looking at an awesome speaker line-up this year. We’ll be back at the San Jose Convention Center, March 10-12th, 2020. “The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army.”

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

They were aware of it, but startups that I work with closely or invested in, if they got all the way to 25 million with 75% NRR, I would tell them to quit today. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. We’re startups, but 10 is the crazy CEO. Jason Lemkin: Our base.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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Ham and Egg: How Team-Based Selling Boosts Win Rates

Sales Hacker

Scott pulled the research from Chorus, which reported that over five weeks (~May-June 2020), 88% more directors have been joining calls and 72% more executives are joining sales calls on the sell side. At the time, COVID-19 was in full effect, so sales opportunities aplenty were turned upside down. Have an action plan.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. 2020 Update: SaaS Pricing Guide: When and How to Raise Prices Without Losing Customers. Patrick Campbell deconstructs and walks through the elements of a pricing strategy that enables startups to more effectively acquire customers.

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10 Tough Lessons We Learned Building a Prenicorn Outside of Silicon Valley from Pendo.io (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. We ended up signing that contract in the uber back to the airport on the way home. It was our largest contract to date, kind of helps the other quarter. He was a VP of product at a series D startup, so a little bit ahead of us and we just had a real connection. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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