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. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

Sales Hiring 197

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 197

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Because it depends highly on the product, on the market, what the founders want to do with the company, and on the different types of markets here. Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. Customer acquisition.

SaaS Payments 230

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 230

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.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

Mikkel : Well again, the public cloud, AWS, was the dominant leader. We are seeing platform shifts from how they traditionally run their infrastructure and services and business to seeing them run that stuff on AWS. Like anything sales, now we do sales tools too, to marketing, all these other things. Just saying.

Cloud 175

Cloud Sales Recruiting Scale AWS 175

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Now, Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest networks that helps make the Internet more secure, fast, and reliable, with a market cap of more than $6B. And today we’re about a six, $7 billion market cap company. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. That doesn’t mean it’s easy.

Sales Hiring 164

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 164

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

com as its head marketing guy in late 2017, having known that he wanted to be a CMO since the age of 10. com, he led marketing at HubSpot, where he pulled off an audacious marketing campaign that earned the company $64 million on a $6,000 budget. Most leaders don’t spend enough time recruiting. Ryan joined G2.com

Education 123

Education Sales Hiring Software Review Sales Recruiting 123

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And G2 Gives, we partner with philanthropies, we partner with some of our customers like AWS and Google Cloud, who can then make donations for every review, to thank their customers. The situation is getting worse.

Software Review 173

Software Review Scale Technical Review SaaS 173

ProfitWell

APRIL 15, 2019

The same applies with sales: you can control your follow ups, but you can't control whether or not someone buys. By simplifying your sales process, qualifying your leads, focusing on the good ones, and dropping the not-so-great like a bad habit. It's often too easy to forget the power of networking can supersede any marketing software.

Sales Recruiting 45

Sales Recruiting Entertainment Sales Hiring Subscription 45

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. Loving our podcast content?

Sales Hiring 108

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 108

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Maria is one of the top SaaS leaders in marketing, just finished up the CMO Vanna plan, which IPOed. And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

Sales Hiring 199

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 199

Sales Hacker

APRIL 26, 2019

when interviewing for a sales position? You answered the sales interview questions in a way that made you look like a winner. In this article, we’re going to review the 27 most common sales interview questions, PLUS the types of answers your interviewer is looking for, so you can raise the bar on your interviewing skills.

Sales Recruiting 21

Sales Recruiting Interviewing Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 21

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. They’re the varsity. They’re the varsity.

Engineering 130

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 130

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

This was anyone from a marketing analyst at a small startup, to a junior analyst at my firm, to a cloud CEO like him. It was still a ubiquitous market. What market are you in? Sameer Dhokalia: The go-to-market model was magical. We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps.

Scale 128

Scale Acquisition Scaling Sales Hiring 128