Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees. How the hell does that happen? We mostly succeeded.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d give it a 7, if you round up from 6.3.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

She manages a huge global team. It has a portion of its revenue that’s very sensitive to the economy and a lot of startups in the customer base, good and bad, right? Sam will have a lot of interesting perspectives on how he manages his team through these times. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. It is staggering.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable. This episode is brought to you by Loopio.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

Despite huge growth and development over the last ten years, there’s also been some disappointments. Emmet: So my job here is to run the Product Design team here in Dublin and London, and Figma clearly had the biggest impact on our team this year. If you enjoy our conversation, check out more episodes of our podcast.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 3, 2020

This year we thought we would do something a bit different and frame this as a conversation between two pricing leaders, Kyle Poyar, VP, Market Strategy here at OpenView, and Steven Forth, Partner at Ibbaka, a strategic capability development platform that enables sustainable growth. The value proposition can change over the customer journey.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

So huge scale, we stop about 15 billion cyberattacks daily on behalf of those 26 million internet properties. So we’re really proud of that and our whole team is really proud of that. And I just remember Matthew and Lee and I, and our team of the original eight people who really worked on this idea.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

And there’s no shortage of advice floating around there, but the perspective I’ll lend today is through that of an operator who’s been through some of these crises, sailed through these storms, and made every mistake in the book and have the scar tissues to show for it. And what’s the best case?

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