Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

He said something along the lines of, “Every time we provide a magical experience to a customer, we invest in our brand equity. ” This founder prided himself on continuously investing in and increasing his business’s brand equity over long periods of time. Even if they can’t measure it.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Though, if we narrow it down to just the highly successful ones—that is, startups that exit for more than $100 million—it takes nearly double that time: 11 years. As of this year, Bloomberg reports that the median age of founders of successful startup s (which they define as companies that exited at more than $1 billion) was 34 years old.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Marketing 82

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.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

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. Before Quip, Sam spent an incredible 3 years at Dropbox where he was the first enterprise sales rep in the entire company. Should you hire 2 at a time?

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 171

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” billion acquisition. billion acquisition by Cisco.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

They may need cash to meet immediate financial obligations or have a longer-term objective and require capital to invest in their development. The amount of ownership provided to an investor is decided by the stage of business investment (series A, B, etc.). Hedge funds invest in high-growth, high-risk businesses.

Finance 98

Finance Venture Capital SaaS Payments Payments 98

The Angel VC

AUGUST 10, 2011

I recently wrote that investors (myself included) should do a better job of making their investment criteria transparent to founders. Today I'd like to tell you a bit more about what we at Point Nine Capital are looking for in SaaS startups (other sectors are something for another blog post). along the way.

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Sales Recruiting Startup Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 155

Unbounce

OCTOBER 18, 2021

When done right, marketing can be about more than return on investment or brand metrics. Sounds like a big opportunity for talent-starved companies to recruit, right? How’d they grow from a small startup to a budding global player? Community building works much better for us than just typical marketing acquisition strategies.

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Artificial Intelligence Marketing Scale Sales Recruiting 136

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Billion acquisition is just one milestone in the early innings of the company’s story. Does it have to be in person?

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 127

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.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

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. So it’s been awhile.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Government 177

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

Having invested in 9 B2B marketplaces and gathered data from 20+ different investors, here are our findings on what it takes to raise money in 2021 for B2B marketplaces. Addressable revenue opportunity of $1bn+: As is the case for any startup, VCs optimise for investing in markets where there is a huge potential upside.

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Marketplace as a Service Payments B2B SaaS Payments 59

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Have you ever dreamed of becoming a VP of Sales? This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak to Dan Cook, SVP of Sales & Success at LucidChart, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the US, about what it takes to become a sales executive at a top company. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Sales 73

Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Arthur is a Principal at Knight Capital – an investment firm that specialises in B2B software businesses. We tried to come up with a framework where we set marketing, sales and finance which we call heavy burdens of the company. On this episode of the podcast, I interview Arthur Nobel and we discuss scaling SaaS companies.

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Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting SaaS 52

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.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Management 67

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. Its major claim is that sales conversations aren’t a good use of time, i.e. the buying process.

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Sales Recruiting Social Media Subscription Payment Features 40

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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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 152

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. We invest all over the country and very much in Europe as well including Paris. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Company Culture 114

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016.

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Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 131

SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2023

In 2020-2021, many SaaS startups faced a unique challenge. CRO at Wiz, Colin Jones, shares how this traditional startup evolved, thrived and grew from 0 to $100 million in just two years. Recruit diverse leaders The goal of hiring a revenue leader is to put gasoline on finding product market fit success.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Branding 207

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

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Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 194

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We continue that practice today, and extend it to include roles that aren’t typically exposed to customers—operations people, accountants, recruiters, etc. For instance, recruiters with first-hand customer experience are able to give job candidates real examples of what it’s like to work at Zapier.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors 45

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

Where should you invest your resources? If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: You can’t balance short-term and long-term investments without considering the existing product strategy. Choosing the right investment is a balancing act of art and science. And yet, now might be a good time to hit the accelerator.

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Strategy Software Review Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 228

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

I think channel distribution is one of the most promising and untapped acquisition channels for SaaS?—?especially especially for SMB SaaS startups. Over the long term, it can also deliver increased revenue, higher customer lifetime value (LTV), and reduced customer acquisition costs (CAC). Already pretty valuable, right?).

Outsourcing Services 131

Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Barrett Boston , Chief Revenue Officer at TriNet. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales.

Leadership 78

Leadership Scale Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering 78

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 25, 2019

If you’re reading this, you might be familiar with Paul Graham’s famous article “ Startup=Growth ,” where he lays out the difference between traditional businesses and startups. Paul Graham puts it like this: “A startup is a company designed to grow fast”. Making sure culture scales as you grow.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scaling 136

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & Customer acquisition. The key here is knowing what your sales model is. MRR, obviously.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 229

Chart Mogul

APRIL 8, 2020

In a cruel world of startups, you either grow or you die. The road from a small startup to a sustainable business is a bumpy one. To survive the first five years (which only half of all companies do ) and get profitable, your startup needs to grow at a proper pace. And it invariably goes through growth. It’s cold outreach.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Startup Sales Hiring 98

OpenView Labs

APRIL 24, 2019

As a recruiter, I hear from many founders and sales leaders regularly about how many salespeople they need and how quickly they need them. And I’ve seen many startups who fail to make this distinction create a cycle of diminishing returns that impacts the trajectory of their growth for the long haul… especially in enterprise sales.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 64

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify, and Gremlin all prior guests on the show, I hasten to add. Before joining Redpoint, Tomasz was the product manager for Google’s AdSense social-media products and AdSense internationalization. Should sales commission be paid on renewals?

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Scale SMB Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 114

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

“The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one” For Udemy, investing in a B2B arm seemed too obvious, and too good, an opportunity to ignore. At the helm of Udemy for Business’ customer acquisition machine is their VP of Marketing Yvonne Chen.

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Marketplace as a Service Scale Sales Recruiting Business 243

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 132

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. But then after joining them, and we sold that startup to another startup NICU, I went home to Pittsburgh in 1999 which led to the inspiration for starting our first business. He was investing in internet companies.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 166

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. We follow about 30 KPIs through the sale cycle in the business.

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Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 155

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. What’s their acquisition channel? Transcript. What’s their deal size?

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 196