SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

Founders were able to recruit on-site. With Aaron Levie, Stewart Butterfield, David Sacks (fresh off Yammer’s acquisition for $1b+, which seemed so high at the time), Leyla Seka from Salesforce, David Ulevitch from OpenDNS (who sold to Cisco just a few months later for $800m, which again seemed enormous at the time), and the list went on.

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Scale Sales Recruiting CTO Hire New CTO 282

OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. Those with experience in both B2B and B2C sales know that B2B is a lot tougher—the deals are bigger, there’s often more than one decision-maker, and the competition is intense. For all those reasons, hiring and management must be on point.

Sales Hiring 80

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting B2B 80

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Always make sure to talk with a sales representative and be as detailed as possible about your current and future situation to make sure they can handle everything you need. Do you need help for the foreseeable future or just for a one-off event like a round of recruitment? How to choose the best HR outsourcing service for you.

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Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 118

Totango

MARCH 19, 2021

The traditional customer journey infographic envisioned the customer’s experience from a sales and marketing standpoint, visualizing a funnel marking the steps from a lead acquisition through a sale, also known as the buyer’s journey. Keep in mind that onboarding can also begin in the presales process.

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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. We’re moving to enterprises.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 171

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 174

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Sales 74

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Recorded Future is a leading universal threat intelligence solution that arms enterprises’ security teams with all the tools they need.

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SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 7, 2015

LinkedIn attracts hundreds of millions of consumers to post resumes online and sells this data and access to its audience to advertisers and recruiters and salespeople. Recruiters buy Talent Solutions to find, connect with and acquire talented people. In 2007, online sales generated 63% of revenue.

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Sales Recruiting Benchmarks Metrics SaaS 100

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

Kellblog

MARCH 13, 2020

In days of yore, chief revenue officer (CRO) was just a gussied-up title for VP of Sales. If someone was particularly good, particularly senior, or particularly hard to recruit you might call them CRO. Chief revenue officer meant chief sales officer meant VP of Sales. Frank, the head of Sales, had a $1B number.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Recruiting Acquisition 98

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded. 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.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

SmartKarrot

JUNE 28, 2023

The key account manager is then supposed to act as the first contact point between these clients and the business, dedicate resources, and hold meetings with them. The main aim of this practice is to help grow the number of key accounts in order to attain mutually beneficial goals and maximize their value.

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Sales Recruiting Management Scale Underperforming Technical Team 10

yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2022: Sales Tools. Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Does one have to move to enterprise? How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? How does your customer success and customer support functions change with the move to enterprise? How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market?

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 128

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

Ever since he was hired as the Director of EMEA Sales at BrowserStack , a web and mobile testing platform that lets developers test their websites and mobile applications across browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, he had to completely rethink how to successfully onboard hundreds of salespeople just as everyone was going remote.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Those line charts showing fast-rising user acquisition or explosive ARR have been synonymous with the industry over the past decade. And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 111

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The exciting thing about prototypes is that large-scale experiments can be built through open-source projects , which companies like Netflix and Linkedin will do as a strategic way of recruiting top talent. . Why startup founders should treat fundraising like a sales funnel. Milestone: Hire an accomplished head of sales or revenue.

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Marketing 82

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity.

Sales Hiring 81

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 81

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The goal in SaaS sales is not to convince your customer to buy your product there and then—it’s to win that customer over to your product for a lifetime. We’ll tell you how to use your understanding of a prospect to turn them into a delighted customer, what metrics to lean on, and how to build the perfect SaaS sales team. What is SaaS?

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Scale Sales Recruiting SaaS Sales 61

Sales Hacker

MAY 1, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Rick Smolen , VP of Sales at Greenhouse Software about moving your product upmarket and how to sell your software to a big company. How to help a hyper-growth company move upmarket from mid-market into enterprise. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Sales SMB 47

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 31, 2022

Do they understand your GTM motion (enterprise vs mid-market/SMB)? Growing pains can occur as your team expands and you need to think about talent retention just as much as talent acquisition. We are hosting an ‘Ask Me Anything’ on all things hiring, recruiting, and talent market on Thursday, February 10 at 12 p.m.

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Sales Hiring Interviewing Sales Recruiting SMB 60

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Ellie Tamari , the VP of North American Sales at Namogoo. Today we are incredibly excited to have a recent friend, member of the Boston chapter of the Revenue Collective, and female sales leader that came to the role somewhat later in life — Ellie Tamari. What You’ll Learn.

Sales Hiring 67

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Management 67

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

OpenView’s experts weighed in with their predictions across product, sales, marketing, pricing, corporate development and talent. Product Managers Will Own a KPI. How many of your highest paid team members are in sales? The fact is that a great (albeit expensive) sales rep is worth every penny and has an obvious ROI.

Trends 67

Trends Sales Recruiting Technical Review SaaS 67

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Recorded Future is a leading universal threat intelligence solution that arms enterprises’ security teams with all the tools they need.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded. 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.

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We tried to come up with a framework where we set marketing, sales and finance which we call heavy burdens of the company. For instance, in an early stage company HR is focused on recruiting whereas if you are at a bit later stage you are more focused on HR process. Levers of scaling a SaaS company. In our case these are: 1.

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Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting SaaS 52

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

That means we’re delivering more than 250 pieces of content to our community on topics ranging from sales and product to pricing, marketing, recruiting and much more. The Market Map shows us that PLG is being adopted across all product categories, from developer tools to finance applications to enterprise-grade solutions.

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Sales Recruiting Benchmarks Acquisition Finance 56

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. Replacing your enterprise sales team. Your top subscription news. NPR looks to freemium. But there are a few kickers here.

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Sales Recruiting Social Media Subscription Payment Features 40

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I remember talking to Belgium investors at the time and everybody said, look, enterprise software is dead, there’s no opportunity through investment. Felix : There’s no way to be successful with enterprise software. Teddie : And also we’ve seen the BI market that’s been acquisitions at the last.

Sales Hiring 177

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Government 177

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For marketing: Insert a screenshot of the Enterprise Value vs. Growth Rate chart from the GoingClear report]. The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. It’s tempting to prioritize new customer acquisition as your top growth priority. . The new data reveals a similar picture for private SaaS startups. .

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Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Debt financing is preferable for sales and marketing acceleration since it has a lower long-term cost and enables the company to expand quicker. The primary benefit of debt financing is that the company owner keeps complete control of the enterprise, unlike equity financing.

Finance 98

Finance Venture Capital SaaS Payments Payments 98

CustomerSuccessBox

JANUARY 10, 2022

You train them on the acquisition of new skills to allow them to be autonomous on certain subjects. Additional Resource – What is a Customer Success Manager. Main missions of the Customer Success Manager. How to recruit the right Customer Success Manager? This is an increase of 34% from 2020.

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Compensation Customer Success Trends Management 52

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

JUNE 3, 2013

For example: "Our billing management system is focused on the meeting the special needs of veterinarians in the US" "We deliver an HR recruiting solution built specifically for K-12 public school administrators" "We've built an inventory management system based on our deep understanding of the food service industry."

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Sales Recruiting Finance Software Development SaaS 124