Tom Tunguz

JUNE 18, 2019

The template is broken into six sections: People, Bookings & Revenue, Cash, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success. This section covers employee satisfaction, headcount, and recruiting metrics. Bookings and Revenue illuminates the company’s performance in closing new business (bookings) and recurring revenue.

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Metrics Sales Recruiting Startup SaaS 209

Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

VP of Engineering 93

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 93

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

VP of Engineering 121

VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services 121

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Account Managers: They serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers.

Sales Hiring 96

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 96

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Your marketing and sales budgets, and the personnel assigned to those teams, will also rise. A hiring plan allocates expected future expenses based on your revenue forecasts. A longer lead time for recruitment means higher quality recruits. It helps maintain consistent growth. Try Baremetrics Free.

Sales Hiring 97

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Finance Forecasting 97

InsightSquared

MAY 15, 2019

It’s one of my favorite questions to ask a fellow professional in sales operations. Insurance sales rep. Account Manager. Sales Operations is Still Developing. Sales operations as a profession is growing, yet it is a comparatively new function in businesses. Sales Ops is Many Disciplines in One.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Review Sales 110

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.

Sales Recruiting 111

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale Sales Hiring 111

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Whether it’s creating better tools to write code and test code, better tools for customers to engage with reps, better tools for sales teams to engage with their prospects, all those things are happening inside of Bill. Rocket Mortgage has 30 years of data around mortgages in different markets. That data is not public.

Payments 111

Payments Forecasting Payment Services Payment Solutions 111

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. The framework consists of three elements: product-market fit, go-to-market fit, and growth and moat.

Scale 226

Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 226

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: First traction and product-market fit .

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Marketing 82

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.

DevOps as a Service 100

DevOps as a Service Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 100

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

If you take the time to listen, understand and act on what your customers are thinking and feeling, you’ll create an army of advocates and drive topline revenue growth for good measure. Here’s a little bit of my marketing experience, but I need to back up a little bit and go off slide to tell you about my pre-marketing experience.

Sales Recruiting 185

Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 185

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.

Sales Recruiting 74

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Sales 74

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Founders may reduce staff, particularly in recruiting or new projects that the company prefers not to finance. All of the cost of customer acquisition for a SaaS company is borne in the first month or so. Growing this way requires a lot of cash to finance the acquisition investment. Second, slow sales hiring.

SaaS Payments 120

SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services 120

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

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Also last year, of the 10 fastest growing Internet penetration markets in the world, 8 of them were in Africa. Okay, so quite a few.

Scale 172

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 172

InsightSquared

AUGUST 14, 2019

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. Strengthens Communication With Sales Leads.

AI 91

AI Artificial Intelligence Sales Recruiting Forecasting 91

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.

Sales Recruiting 10

Sales Recruiting Management Scale Underperforming Technical Team 10

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 3, 2020

We’ll also assume you sell a mid-market $50K ACV SaaS product. Your salary costs, according to Peak Sales Recruiting , are 90K on average and $180K OTE (on-target earnings). And a good AE will have already closed a sale or two. Also, unlike the AE role, SDRs require a manager. The AE Setup. The SDR Setup.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Investment Technical Review 91

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.

Scale 184

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 184

Tom Tunguz

JULY 7, 2015

In every sales process for every SaaS startup, there is one ultimate internal champion advocating the purchasing decision. I have categorized the 50 or so publicly traded SaaS companies by their principal buyer, and tallied the aggregate market caps of those companies above. Salesforce Sales 92%. Company Category Share of MC.

Sales Recruiting 111

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring SaaS Scale 111

Tom Tunguz

MAY 18, 2015

Taleo and SuccessFactors grew very quickly after they entered the market, bringing novel delivery to the human capital market. Both companies eventually offered talent acquisition, performance management, and learning tools for human resources teams. The companies pursued slight different strategies in the market.

Sales Recruiting 100

Sales Recruiting Scale Software Acquisition 100

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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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

“It's a really great way for us to start building a name for ourselves in the international CPG and natural food and beverage community that will serve us down the line when it's time for us to finally start selling into those markets,” she says. That LinkedIn Live has since been viewed almost 30,000 times.

Sales Recruiting 81

Sales Recruiting Social Media Business Marketplace as a Service 81

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? 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. Does one have to move to enterprise?

Scale 133

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 133

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

And if those issues are likely to come up at some point in the purchase process, you’ll certainly need some marketing material that addresses them. Instead, you need to talk to them in the language of a sales manager, a recruiter, or an AP manager.

Sales Recruiting 100

Sales Recruiting Technical Review SaaS Healthcare 100

Baremetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

If you're just sizing up the market or figuring out rough estimates, the less complicated your model, the better. Take a look at conversion rates, customer acquisition costs, and overall financial performance. Start with revenue and work from the top to the bottom of your income statement. What's driving it?

Startup 98

Startup Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Deferred Revenue 98

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 8, 2021

To run a business online, you probably need a customer relationship management ( CRM ) software package and/or payment processor to manage your customers and their invoices. This is because handling many customers across regions by hand is difficult, and in a competitive market there is no room for errors. Table of Contents.

Payment Services 94

Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Features 94

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

ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

Does your marketing often drop the L-bomb? Entire marketing budgets are devoted to their infinite pursuit and persuasion. But if you’re like most companies, when it comes to attracting your customers, the only thing your marketing’s dropping is the ball. The Forgotten CSM: Customer Success Marketing.

Retention 64

Retention Strategy Scale Sales Recruiting 64

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.

Sales Hiring 223

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

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?

Scale 61

Scale Sales Recruiting SaaS Sales 61

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. For marketing: Insert a screenshot of the Enterprise Value vs. Growth Rate chart from the GoingClear report]. Then it’s critical to sell, sell, sell.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Sign up for the Baremetrics free trial , and start monitoring your subscription revenue accurately and easily. Typically, the critical components of this foundation are monthly recurring revenue (MRR) or annual recurring revenue (ARR). Determine if your issue is one of customer acquisition or market size.

Finance 98

Finance Venture Capital SaaS Payments Payments 98

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Some markets are jam-packed with SaaS solutions, all scratching each others' eyes out to win deals. Adwords, events, inside sales, or whatever other tactics you use to attract prospects cost money. To recover that investment in sales and marketing, companies need to convert those prospects into paying customers.

Sales Recruiting 100

Sales Recruiting Subscription Payment Features Technology 100

Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Jess Hun t , Head of Global Marketing, Sales & Strategy for Axiom about creating a revenue model. Why your CFO shouldn’t own the revenue model. Real world advice on how to successfully grow your company’s revenue. What You’ll Learn.

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VP of Engineering Revenue Scale Sales Recruiting 67

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