FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Since 2016, SaaS North has been recognized as THE Canadian hub for rapidly-scaling SaaS founders and their teams. It is the largest in-person event in the country—2,000+ attendees, 800+ companies, and 100+ speakers—along with features such as Betakit Keynote Stage, AWS Pitchfest, Workspaces Tradeshow.

Merchant Services 151

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 151

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Alex has deep experience building market-leading companies, having been a major player at QuanticMind (where he helped grow ARR by 800%) and Salesforce, where he was part of a team that doubled revenue from $1.5 are all-in on personalization and the massive potential to serve customers more intimately at scale. billion to $3 billion.

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Scale Marketing AWS Artificial Intelligence 181

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Julien Sauvage (VP Brand, Content and Product Marketing at Clari ) explains that this is part of Clari’s playbook. While many gravitate towards major industry events for announcements, Joseph has a hot take (and we love a spicy take): do not announce a major new feature at a major industry conference (such as RSA Conference or AWS re:Invent).

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Sales Recruiting Generative AI AI AWS 99

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is a consumer-centric scaling, conversion, and retention philosophy that uses the product itself as the primary growth driver. Also, there is less pressure on Sales. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The scale is extraordinary. It will take some time to discern just how fundamentally our political and social discourse will be changed by the likes of Facebook and Twitter, but just as with every revolution, it will lead to both positive and negative outcomes, to both delight and disillusionment. There are about 3.2

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2019

292: Manny Medina is the Founder & CEO @ Outreach, the market leading sales engagement platform that turns your team into a revenue driving machine. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Manny made his way to found the leader in sales engagement from product management at Amazon and Business Development @ Microsoft. *

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Scale Sales Hiring Construction Education 143

Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

In fact, smart and fast-growing cloud software companies who outperform their peers usually share this common trait: they consistently grow sales and build their brand by turning their security standards into a key differentiator and selling point. How many of these three things do you offer your prospective customers?

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Cybersecurity Underperforming Technical Team AWS Scale 52

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It’s a unique form of SaaS content marketing where you craft content to show—not tell—how your product solves prospects’ problems. When done well, product-led content demos your product in the content itself, allowing prospects to see exactly how it will solve their problems. It increases brand awareness across all digital channels.

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Product Marketing Trends Scale Marketing 58

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

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. There’s none of the brands that you’ve seen get to an IPO or continue on to a Fortune 500 company that is not making some significant investments there. Any thoughts?

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 203

Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Dan Fougere , CRO of Datadog. Dan is a 20+ year veteran of technology sales and has seen 4 of his last 5 companies become unicorns. Dan talks about the key qualities of great sales leadership and how to be an effective executive in addition to being a great sales leader.

Leadership 62

Leadership Scale Sales Hiring Sales 62

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 24, 2018

I joined intercom remotely two years ago as the first person in Sydney, and since then we have scaled the APAC team (lovingly referred to as the APAC Alliance) to almost 20 people across 4 countries. Due to our rapid growth, we needed to scale the team remotely before opening an office.

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Sales Hiring Company Culture Scale Customer Support 149

Audacix

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In fact, smart and fast-growing cloud software companies who outperform their peers usually share this common trait: they consistently grow sales and build their brand by turning their security standards into a key differentiator and selling point. How many of these three things do you offer your prospective customers?

Cloud 49

Cloud Cybersecurity Scale Transportation 49

Teamgate

OCTOBER 19, 2019

The areas where social media performs better than email include engagement, virality, branding and assisted conversions. A relevant opt-in offer will focus on highlighting the benefits that a prospect can’t refuse. Most importantly, studies have shown that email has better ROI, which is what everything comes down to in business.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The scale of the company and the size of the problem you were trying to solve kept changing dramatically.”. Luckily, the team at MongoDB was not one to be intimidated by the prospect of playing in the big leagues. Every three to six months, the company was completely different,” she recalled.

Marketing 54

Marketing AWS Scale Development 54

The SaaS Garage

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Million in Series D Funding to Deliver Content Infrastructure for the Modern Technology Stack December 5, 2018 SAN FRANCISCO & BERLIN–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Contentful , the leading content infrastructure for digital teams, today announced $33.5 Contentful Announces $33.5 million in Series D equity funding.

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Technology Scale PayPal Software Delivery 53

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Alison Wagonfeld, CMO of Google Cloud. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to The Sales Hacker Podcast. Previously, she was an operating partner at Emergence Capital, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that we all probably know about. We’re on iTunes.

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Cloud Artificial Intelligence Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 44

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.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I saw we had the opportunity to do that in London and to do something that will be new for Facebook, in the same way that AWS was a new business model and product line for Amazon and a bet that paid off very well. ” I’m talking about respected SaaS brands like Box or Intercom, which is another good example.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Mobile Sales Hiring 151

Neil Patel

JANUARY 8, 2021

A subdomain doesn’t look professional nor is it good for branding. If branding is your top priority, make sure to find a free web host that gives you the option to stand out in a sea of other freely hosted websites. Amazon AWS is a similar product that provides access to its free tier products for 12 months. neilpatel.wix.com).

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Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 141

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. Sales enablement is easy: all you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, and do all of this with less time. We’re on iTunes.

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Scale CTO Hire Scaling CTO Coach 107

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 13, 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). How Dropbox Scaled with Customer Success as Their Secret Weapon. It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It. SaaS is now ubiquitous.

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Benchmarks AWS Scale 52

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Support the sales process by communicating with prospective clients, as needed. Grow adoption & usage across the client’s partner and brand networks, ensuring retention of Retailer and expansion of contact list across Retailer accounts. Apply here: [link].

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Scale AWS Cloud 19

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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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Cross-team sharing is key to scaling DevOps effectiveness Do you have sharing, caring team members? It's up to you to select the right testing tool for your organisation and eschew the rabbit-in-headlights approach of simply gravitating to the big brands that are top-of-mind. There is no wrong answer to this riddle.

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DevOps as a Service Technical Review CTO Coach Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

Notwithstanding that real value, there’s also big brand value in the VCs you pick. So that’s the one scale is saying, “Big distraction, we can’t do this every year. And if you’ve just hired a cohort of 10 sales reps six months ago and everybody’s failing? Say three to six months?

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Scale Startup 130

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2021

They are: Scaling Customer Lifetime Value. And to look further, their subcategories are the below ones: Scaling Increase number of customers Diversify products Lower customer acquisition cost Optimize online performance. For any business to grow, it has to scale its operations to reach more customers.

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Customer Lifetime Value Scale SaaS Acquisition 10

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%.

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 198

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. Four, people in the sale? Kristen Habacht: Well, there’s none in sales.

Merchant Services 197

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 197

Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

Working as a apple tech was awful but for the rude customers I would put on hold while I went outside to chat with co workers or grab something from the vending machine. I don't have a thick skin, which probably made it about 15 times worse, but I still can't think about it without having awful flashbacks. What can we learn from this?

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Payment Methods Management Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

What I mean by MQLs is Marketing Qualified Leads. One thing we’ve learned in helping our founders and operators scale their businesses is that cash is one of their most precious resources. For example, if the value of marketing is: Building and evangelizing the brand of the company. Driving pipeline for sales (SLG).

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Metrics Revenue Scale Marketing 91

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Userpilot is a leading B2B product growth tool that excels at in-app engagement , product analytics, customer feedback collection, customer support, and integrations. It’s suitable for businesses wanting control over their infrastructure and the ability to scale. Frequent issues can lead to significant disruptions in service.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 83

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Sales Hacker Newsletter has now merged with The GTM Newsletter to make one of the largest newsletters in the space. As always, you’ll hear real stories/strategies/tactics from real revenue operators spanning: sales, marketing, customer success, operations/enablement, product and hiring. Needs more pre sales support.

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Scale VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Enterprise 67

Unbounce

JUNE 25, 2020

That’s when she discovered the secret sauce to scaling her ecommerce business. Read on to learn how Shopify landing pages can help you transform your ecomm sales from mild to five-alarm hot. Not only that, but you’re creating an awful experience for visitors. You can deliver a customized brand experience.

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Scale Sales Software Review Branding 144

SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

How sales worked, how pricing worked, how billboards work, and more. At the end of the day, Twilio still sells communications, AWS still sells servers, but the way we’re selling it is different than how it was done in yesteryear. You’d have an enterprise sales force, a song and dance and maybe some steak.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Engineering Wireless 282

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

“Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. Let’s talk about that. Michael: Totally. We’re live!

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Strategy Payment Methods Payment Services Startup 36

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. Today, a lot of the PLG SaaS tools require sales motion upfront because nobody understands those tools.

Startup 52

Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52

Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

As explained in the first part of this series, we clearly saw why Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is the way to go when it comes to establishing self-serving applications that can be scaled up and developed fast(er). Scale up (or down) fast Better Latency – Access points all around the world for better performance.

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ECS (Elastic Container Service) multi-cloud Kubernetes K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Scale 97