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. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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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. Now there are 20 or 30 public SaaS companies we can learn from. Transcript. It’s two years ago.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

Dharmesh Shah : So, a quick confession before I start, which is like I love SaaS, I love it. Ever since I was a little boy on the dusty streets of India, I’m like, “Someday, there will be an industry where we can ship software, without actually shipping software, and all customers will be on a single version.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

Ophelia : And what do you think are the biggest challenges facing any SaaS company today? First of all, do we have any European SaaS startups here today? There were still a lot of people that told us we needed to build on premise software. This model of trialing and buying a software that doesn’t make any sense.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

How the AI wave could impact the B2B software industry in the next decade Last year I explained in a video, embedded below, that I believed the B2B software industry was entering a new stage: the SaaS wave was now in its deployment phase, and at the same time, the next big innovation wave, driven by AI, was in its installation phase.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Chris Degnan , Chief Revenue Officer of Snowflake Computing, one of the fastest growing SaaS platforms in the world. Chris walks us through his habits, his principles, and his system for enterprise sales. How to manage your career to solve for upside. What You’ll Learn.

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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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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. And working in the property management industry? We could branch out into commercial property management.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 5, 2019

On paper, the segmented sales model that many SaaS businesses use seems great – who wouldn’t want to copy the success of Salesforce? But there’s a trend I’m seeing that’s making me wonder whether this segmented sales model is actually good for us. That or they’re ready to cut to the chase to see your software.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

com , the place to see what others are saying about their experiences with the myriad SaaS options for business. com’s CMO Ryan Bonnici believes software purchasing will continue to evolve into a more authentic selling and buying experience. Most leaders don’t spend enough time recruiting. Ryan joined G2.com

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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. powered by Sounder.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And so when you think back to what was happening, when we start back in 2010, when we were working on this idea in 2009, we just saw there’s this huge shift going on, where we were going from a world from hardware and software that you owned to services in the cloud that you rented. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.

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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%.

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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?

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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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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Last week, I listened to a panel of IT professionals share their experience with software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud solutions. See Rule 4 in the " Ten Essentials of SaaS Solution Marketing. ") I was surprised, though, to hear from these IT professionals about another concern: usability.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. If you think of this in the context of software, it’s particularly powerful because for years, we’ve been seeing the visionaries out there promoting this transition. The dark blue bar here is cloud as a percentage of worldwide software spend.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And then, we ripped it out and Aaron went and talked to some of the top SaaS companies from today and added the case studies. Maria is one of the top SaaS leaders in marketing, just finished up the CMO Vanna plan, which IPOed. This is the best of times in SaaS, right? We wrote a book together. Aaron : Yeah. Maria : Yeah.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Musing after a decade spent building SaaS start-ups By Geoff Roberts 20 min read. Today I can look back across a full decade that’s been spent building SaaS start-ups. Exactly 10 years ago today—May 10, 2010—I slinked through office doors that opened to my first day of work at a “real job.”

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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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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. A SaaS company is a service provider that hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the internet. India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. This article will help you –.

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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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OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. Related podcast episode: How MongoDB Scaled Their Open-Source Product with a Bottom-Up and Top-Down Sales Motion. Yes, SaaS is powerful.

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