SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. And basically SaaS revenue models is just magical for investors and for businesses. And you can basically predict revenue ahead of time and therefore raise money early on to grow even faster. First one and the most important one is obviously the MRR, monthly recurring revenue. MRR, obviously.

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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.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. Basic marketing and selling at a global scale is becoming easy too. How can your business win market dominance and survive?

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

And recently you released plans to reach a billion of revenue next year. We ended just shy of $600 million dollar in revenue for the year. So we feel very confident, increasingly confident, about getting to a billion dollars in revenue by 2020 and that’s gonna be a fun milestone, you know? Mikkel : 2020. Easy, easy, easy.

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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.

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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.

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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%. But, time for the show today.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Byron Deeter and Elliott Robinson, partners at Bessemer Venture Partners, offer macro trends in the public and private cloud markets, strategic advice to cloud founders, and insights into why entrepreneurs should feel auspicious about the future. If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year.

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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.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’m pretty jaded when it comes to the financial numbers that get thrown around in start-up land—I don’t care what TechCrunch says, I don’t care what your market cap is—I think it’s clear that the world of technology start-ups is pretty screwed up when it comes to financial valuations. And working in the property management industry?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron Ross | CEO @ Predictable Revenue. 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. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

As for Liat, prior to Airtable, she was the Chief Revenue Officer @ Assist. 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. How does Liat think about challenging the traditional sales model?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Centralized HQs with all the perks and amenities “under one roof” have traditionally been used as recruiting tools to attract and retain top talent. And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. This will be a really strong indicator of retention and recruiting.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

351: Chris O’Neill (Google, Evernote) shares his lessons from previous downturns and how to chart a new course for growth in today’s changing market. The first will be sharing five perspectives and things that I found to be useful in adjusting sales in the midst of a crisis or a turnaround.

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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.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 27, 2021

Partner with the CS leaders to recruit, develop, and train their teams. Apply here: [link] Role: Customer Success Manager Location: London, England, United Kingdom Organization: Ubertas Consulting As a Customer Success Manager, you will be onboarding new customers, discussing their challenges and proposing solutions.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. As a US citizen, it’s very clear to me that many of our best and brightest go into this field.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Since Sameer joined SendGrid at CEO in 2014, the company has quadrupled its revenue, more than doubled its employees, experienced a successful initial public offering and was recently acquired by Twilio in a transaction valued at approximately $2 billion. It was still a ubiquitous market. What market are you in?

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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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OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Other businesses, like LinkedIn and Netflix, have strong histories of being producers of open-source projects, which provides a strategic recruitment and retention tool for top-tier engineering talent. Related podcast episode: How MongoDB Scaled Their Open-Source Product with a Bottom-Up and Top-Down Sales Motion.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Amy Frampton , Head of Marketing at BambooHR and 15-year marketing veteran. Join us for a hilarious conversation about what’s changed in marketing lately, brushing shoulders with Marshawn Lynch, poaching SDRs and AEs from sales, and tips for employer branding.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 24, 2019

As a recruiter, I hear from many founders and sales leaders regularly about how many salespeople they need and how quickly they need them. And I’ve seen many startups who fail to make this distinction create a cycle of diminishing returns that impacts the trajectory of their growth for the long haul… especially in enterprise sales.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. 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. More sales meetings, start creating better sequences faster, go to go.regie.io

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

A report from Bain & Company predicted that “Indian SaaS companies will reach $30 billion in revenue by the year 2025”. Based on this, it can be said that Indian-origin SaaS companies could capture an 8% to 9% share of the international SaaS market. Instead of marketing, Zoho invests in R&D and customer service.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. 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.

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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

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