SaaStr

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Venture-Backed, the real differences How to Truly Go Long and Recruiting Management Teams Again and Again How the Bar Has Gone Way, Way Up in SaaS Today How Critical It is To Go Multiproduct On Time — Too Early is Bad, But Too Late is Bad, Too Take a watch and listen above.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2025

One of the classic original SaaStr posts was on the Top 10+ Questions to Ask a VP of Sales Candidate. It’s a different world today, AI-fueled, often distributed and hybrid, and with inflation both in titles (CRO or VP Sales) and compensation expectations. Use this updated script for hiring that first VP of Sales.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Unparalleled Networking Opportunities SaaStr Annual brings together thousands of SaaS, Cloud and AI executives, founders, VCs, and industry leaders under one roof across our 40+ acre campus, May 13-15 in SF Bay! Investor Connections and Funding Opportunities — And $5m AI VC Pitch Stage!! And the VCs that want to fund them!

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Subscribe now “Grouping + AI” for Triage One area I’m quite excited to see AI revolutionize is “grouping + triage” workflows. Signal can come from many places (sales team notes, customer support tickets, etc) IT Incident Management: Similar to the security alert example. Perfect for a LLM!

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. Q: Should Early-Stage Companies Sprinkle in AI? Let’s jump right into the questions. It’s still early.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2019

Since writing The AI Agency: A Novel GTM for Machine Learning Startups , I’ve been meeting many companies who operate this way. These startups use machine learning to disrupt an industry traditionally dominated by agencies: law, accounting, recruiting, translation, debt collection, marketing…the list is long.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Co-founder and CEO at Greenhouse, Daniel Chait, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Greenhouse, a successful recruiting software company at $200M in ARR today. But on sales calls, the buyer would say the product looked amazing — and that they needed an ATS before buying Greenhouse.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Lizzie Mintus Founder and CEO of Here’s Waldo Recruiting and host of The Heres Waldo Podcast about her thoughts on: The most effective recruiting strategies for SMBs. So during the intro, I kind of talked about how you run here’s Waldo recruiting.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 15+ of The Top Sales & Marketing Mistakes SaaS Startups Make (Updated) Cloudflare: Our Top Reps Are Hitting 129% of Quota. 7 Things All Founders Should Know About Sales with Dave Kellogg: SaaStr Workshop Wednesday LIVE 2.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2024

They discuss Sam’s learnings at Founders Fund, what the 2024 playbook looks like, hiring and motivating sales teams, and a handful of audience questions. For instance, Founders Fund doesn’t really invest in AI, health tech, or edtech, even if you’re growing 5x. On the sales side, people hired way too much.

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Nimble - Sales

MAY 21, 2025

Recruiting takes timeand when youre buried under a pile of resumes, its easy to miss top talent. Our new AI-powered resume parser helps recruiters quickly turn unstructured resumes into clean, searchable candidate profiles. appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

GTM 120: Avoid the AI Sales Skills Atrophy Trap with Peter Kazanjy Pete Kazanjy is a serial founder, and seasoned early stage Saas executive, advisor, and investor. He currently leads Atrium, makers of sales performance management software to help organizations measure and improve sales performance.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

Whether youre a startup , an SMB , or a global enterprise , the right ATS can streamline your recruitment process, save time, and help attract top talent in a competitive market. Importantly, ATS platforms have evolved with AI-driven features , diversity and bias reduction tools , and deep analytics to meet todays hiring challenges.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

We will do four and a half times what we did last year and be able to be a half a billion dollar AI company in about 18 months. The market now called RPA, which is the fastest path to using AI in a company now. We took the series A, interesting enough, the first executive hired by, thanks to the sales coaching, actually was marketing.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Feeling that AI FOMO? That’s why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report — to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups. Product : HG Insights. You’re not alone.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Leandra Fishman is the Chief Revenue Officer at Apollo.io , a leading go-to-market solution for sales and marketing teams. Previously, as the SVP of Sales and Success for SendGrid, she led the company through a successful IPO and helped double its market cap in its first year as a public company. Brought to you by IPS.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s so, so easy to stand out in recruiting if you’ve actually done your homework. ” — Troy Legwiniski, AI & Innovation Executive “I talked with a Foresters Financial co exec a number of years who relayed a story of talking with a candidate that asked about how the tree cutting business was going.”

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 18, 2024

AI is everywhere but still uncharted As anticipated, AI was at the heart of nearly every conversation at the conference. Caroline Kinlin (CMO at SPHERE) highlights that AI is use case agnostic – regardless of industry or function, the core question is how AI can be integrated effectively. Link to GPT.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

AI isn’t perfect but its productivity gains are undeniable. 1 Fueled by AI. Interviewers also face a new challenge: developing golden standards to evaluate AI fluency. Will they feed legal briefs back into AI systems for cross-examination? Safe convergence doubtful. Honor & recognition in event of success.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

I’m 100% OK taking a lot of risk here because I know I can help them recruit a local team as much as necessary or desired. Network effects in your product, a marketplace element, or at least some tech/product/non-sales driven reason your app automatically gets more and more dominant as it scales. It just varies.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

He currently leads Atrium, makers of sales performance management software to help organizations measure and improve sales performance. Previously, he founded TalentBin, a talent search engine and recruiting CRM that was acquired by Monster Worldwide in 2014. 17:58) The importance of accountability in sales management. (22:32)

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 13, 2024

Adriana Gil Miner is CMO at Iterable, the AI-powered customer communication platform. Discussed in this Episode: Leveraging AI and ChatGPT for creative, high-volume ad testing and optimization. The importance of post-sale marketing and customer lifecycle management. Brought to you by IPS.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Their solutions span a wide range of verticals: from E-commerce, HR and Health to collaboration, infrastructure and AI. Talkpush is a conversational recruiting CRM that allows employers and job seekers to connect in new ways across the globe. It also gives recruiters a faster process through its chatbot and application management tool.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2024

1: How Sales and Marketing Have Shifted Since 2020 Expectations and the types of people working in SaaS have shifted over the past few years, and much more in sales, marketing, and customer success. . #1: I can leave my horrible sales job making $240k OTE and be a solopreneur. You can listen to the full podcast here. #1:

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If you aren’t willing to embrace AI digital assistants as a marketer, you’re going to have a tough time competing with everyone else. Just like Alexa brings you the best jams on-demand and Siri helps you find the nearest Starbucks, AI digital assistants can help you become a better marketer. What Are AI Digital Assistants?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Feeling that AI FOMO? Thats why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups. Youre not alone. Why HG Insights?

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InsightSquared

AUGUST 14, 2019

In 2019, artificial intelligence (AI) is prevalent in our everyday lives. Whether it be selecting a movie on Netflix, shopping on Amazon, or ordering an Uber, AI is powering many of the decisions we make on a daily basis. Many of today’s forward-thinking companies have already begun using AI in their sales strategies.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2024

In the competitive arena of B2B sales, mastering the art of prospecting is key to ensuring a healthy sales pipeline, daily demos booked, and hitting your sales quota. Fortunately for you, we’ve sifted through the clutter and done all the legwork to bring you the top 10 sales prospecting tools. Wiza reviews 4.5/5

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Chuck is the co-founder of Blueprint Expansion , a GTM roles recruiting firm that has helped over 50 VC-backed companies make amazing Sales, Marketing, & Customer Success hires. By using the power of AI to identify and engage the accounts and buying groups most likely to purchase.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Thanks to email automation and AI, however, sending tons of emails has never been easier. Sales leaders like Florin Tatulea (Director of Sales at Barley) feel the impact from the past few years alone: “Pure cold outbound is 3x harder than it was in 2021.” Email often plays a significant role in hitting numbers.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Writer is an AI writing tool that helps teams write in the same tone and style so that all of the company’s communications are consistent and representative of the brand. AI use cases – what they are and how they continue to progress. Tips for recruiting the best possible team members and how patience factors into that.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 4, 2019

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a technological breakthrough with potential applications for nearly every industry. The proliferation of AI-powered tools, software systems, and devices is also dramatically transforming the way that recruiters source top talent. Recruiting technology can bring fresh hiring strategies to life.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

B2B sales is always changing, but nothing could’ve quite prepared us for the wild ride that 2020 ended up being. While most of us have settled into the new normal and the challenges that come with it, sales leaders are looking ahead with uncertainty. Best Sales Statistics to Know in 2021. Short on time? What this means for you.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Dennis started at Procore as EVP of Sales in 2014, before moving to the CRO role in 2018 where he was responsible for driving revenue across all customer-facing functions including Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Rev Ops, Procore.org and Business Development. Visit vanta.com/gtmnow to learn more. Brought to you by IPS.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Experts believe as much as 80 percent of recruiting will remain virtual for the foreseeable future , and the early stages of the recruitment process are ideal for the online medium. Paradox uses AI to make your virtual job fair easy to manage. As CareerEco says, virtual events are here to stay. Outline Resources Needed.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 13, 2025

AI is expanding the market beyond software AI is unlocking opportunity. AI starts in a radically different place: the $10T global services market. That means AI isn’t just expanding existing categories, it’s productizing massive swaths of manual services. It’s so much bigger than just cloud or SaaS.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 3, 2025

Over his 15-year career at Meta, Rick was instrumental in driving international expansion, especially across Europe, the Middle East, and Africahelping to localize strategy, scale high-performing sales teams, and bring new ad products to market. Rick is the former managing director of Meta Ireland. Rick Kelley: You’re right.

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