Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Whether it’s creating better tools to write code and test code, better tools for customers to engage with reps, better tools for sales teams to engage with their prospects, all those things are happening inside of Bill. One of the criticisms of SMB software is that each customer can only provide so much revenue.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As part of our last three annual finance and operating benchmarks surveys, we’ve asked nearly 2,000 startup founders and leaders of B2B SaaS businesses this simple question: “What’s keeping you up at night?”. Competitive pressures and changing customer needs can be captured by a great marketing or product marketing lead.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

Sales customer insights. Let’s drill down into the market and customer insights that can really add value for salespeople, under the following sections: Qualifying characteristics: Things to look for in an organization that make it a good target. But what are these insights that will transform the conversations salespeople have?

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” What works?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As for Ryan, prior to G2 he was Senior Director of Global Marketing at Hubspot where among many other achievements, he scaled HubSpot’s marketing-generated sales revenue by 330% year-over-year. I think in marketing in general, no. B2B marketing, yes. Ryan Bonnici: I don’t think so.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The exciting thing about prototypes is that large-scale experiments can be built through open-source projects , which companies like Netflix and Linkedin will do as a strategic way of recruiting top talent. . Why startup founders should treat fundraising like a sales funnel. Milestone: First traction and product-market fit .

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Tom Lavery , CEO & Founder at Jiminny , a conversation intelligence platform that helps companies create high performance culture. The expanding market opportunity in SaaS. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Arthur is a Principal at Knight Capital – an investment firm that specialises in B2B software businesses. We found out that there is a lot of content surrounding product-market fit, there is also a lot of content around a company doing an IPO and the founder reflecting on the journey. The structure of the book.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right. And when that announcement happened, I decided to go back and become an entrepreneur still didn’t really know what I wanted to do, but knew how to generate revenue in corporate learning.

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Michael Cardamone is the CEO/Managing Partner at Forum Ventures (formerly Accleprise) which is a B2B SaaS focused seed fund & pre-seed accelerator with locations in SF, NYC & Toronto. The next steps for a SaaS Company that has product-market fit, lots of paying customers and is ready to raise a seed round.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? Podium, an interaction management platform for local businesses, was founded in Utah and grew from five employees in 2015 to more than 300 in 2019 to become one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the United States. Why is this?

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In particular, the company lumped services—which made up half their revenue—into MRR, so we could not get to the company’s ask on valuation.”. It’s hard to gauge that early on because recruiting your first 5-10 hires inherently means leaning on your network, so the sample size is relatively small,” she continues. The problem?

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User Pilot

MARCH 21, 2024

The B2B Customer Profile Template captures in-depth insights into business clients, aiding in developing strategies for partnership and revenue growth. The Buyer Persona Template focuses on the decision-maker’s pain points and goals, helping sales and marketing teams tailor pitches for closing deals.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

So how feasible do you think that works for a typical B2B SaaS business that probably our user-base is not too knowledgeable about [inaudible] on the internet for something specific in their day-to-day use case? But I almost never see mediocre outsource SEO really work for B2B. So, thanks man. But potentially even technology.

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SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. I’m not sure I’m at product market fit yet. Keith : B2B, you can brute force. One, a VP sales.

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SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. I’m not sure I’m at product market fit yet. Keith : B2B, you can brute force. One, a VP sales.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2019

This is in large part a reflection of marketing today, a world where the scope of marketing activities has broadened significantly. The most sophisticated marketing plans today deploy at least nine disciplines which range from content marketing, to evangelist recruitment, to customer lifecycle marketing and beyond.

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2020

At Gainsight Anthony and the team developed a new playbook for B2B marketing that fueled the company’s growth from $0 to over $100M of ARR. How does Anthony’s marketing playbook change when making the move from Gainsight with higher ACVs and longer sales cycles to Front with lowers ACVs and much higher volume?

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

To meet buyers’ high expectations and manage the challenging sales landscape, companies must involve their entire organization in maturing the sales process- including after prospects sign on the dotted line. It was about 1100 employees [inaudible 00:02:03] million in revenue. This episode is sponsored by TaxJar.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100M, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world. What is the most common mistake B2B companies make in the hunt for PMF? Why is 12 months so crucial?

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. Education has impacted both the supply of … we’re talking about the B2B SaaS entrepreneurs and the supply of investors. Maybe fifty of them are B2B SaaS. What we’ve seen is the playbook to start a B2B SaaS company has become quite obvious.

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Unbounce

JUNE 23, 2023

Louis is the Head of Marketing at Dealtale, an organization that dives into the science behind revenue generation and how marketers can use cutting-edge technology to, y’know, market better. So it starts to recruit its own AI agents or attempt to recruit. Super proud of our product team.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

And with the field having undergone a couple of “ knockout expansion years ,” with more revenue pouring into SaaS than ever, it has never been a better time for a young SaaS company. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. Heightened customer retention.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Aileen Lee: But these are also super… I mean, you were talking about growth stage companies where they’ve got strong product market fit. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. Aileen Lee: But I think, yeah, for … I mean, the cloud index is not even post-revenue. That’s way post-revenue.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 31, 2018

The business case for sales development is built on flawless logic and verified by market data. The more time your closers spend taking moonshots, the less sales they actually make. That’s why the fastest growing B2B brands on the planet also run the largest and most sophisticated sales development teams in their class.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

I invest across consumer, B2B SaaS companies, and then also dev tools and infrastructure companies as well. They were like, well, you really need to get this product market fit right, and we need to be growing faster here in the US. We really need to focus here on the US market. We had to be okay. They succeed.

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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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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Craig : Putting the management team together was really around stages of the company. At the beginning, my vice presidents were engineering, and product, and a designer. Making sure we have product market fit was effectively number one. Build the product. Get it into the market. Start getting some feedback.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Pete Kazanjy , co-founder of Atrium and author of Founding Sales. As a serial founder, Pete has built up an impressive library of knowledge on scaling businesses and optimizing sales motions. How selling as a founder will help you understand your sales motions.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

That’s why companies need to do a better job of articulating the value their product provides for prospects – instead of just recapping their product’s function. Most leaders don’t spend enough time recruiting. They don’t realize that it’s really based on revenue at the end of the day.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

After finding funding and product/market fit, your next steps as a founder in the hypergrowth phase can determine the future of your company. Harry Hurst: So throughout my teens and early 20s, I built companies ranging from fashion distribution, all the way to headhunting and recruitment. Harry Stebbings of Stride.VC

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