SaaStr

OCTOBER 9, 2020

A VP of Sales and Success A VP of Sales and Marketing A VP of Sales and Anything Else. Is usually not really a VP of Sales. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had to recruit a lot of types of folks over the years where my domain knowledge was limited. I’ve had to recruit Ph.Ds. Not really.

Sales Hiring 250

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Sales Recruiting 250

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. And now it’s all about like, can you really scale and execute? Dev Ittycheria : Thank you.

Sales Recruiting 242

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 242

Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I've built real friendships with the best B2B marketers in the world and I’m on a text-message basis with countless founders, CEOs, VPs, and executives. I’ve never created LinkedIn content with the “goal” of lead generation or immediate-term sales. These types of endorsements are priceless.

Sales Recruiting 127

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Social Media 127

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

.” Nearly a decade and 500 episodes of the podcast later, we invited back our original SaaStr podcast host, Harry Stebbings of 20VC for a catch-up chat with Jason to discuss the world of venture today and how to scale a successful SaaS sales team from the bottom up. You never get to spend less time in sales as a SaaS CEO.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scaling 177

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. We did a good AMA on this scaling at SaaStr Europa in Barcelona, a couple weeks back. That will scale, and then take those emails after four great pieces of content and do a weekly webinar and do a weekly get-together for them.

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Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 230

SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

Founders were able to recruit on-site. Fast forward to today, and there is an amazing amount of B2B-centric content out there, and many others have put together amazing events around the hard-learned lessons of scaling revenue and scaling SaaS companies. 2017 The Third SaaStr Annual: Scale Together.

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Scale Sales Recruiting CTO Hire New CTO 272

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The rate of acceleration is impressive, yet the B2B element is still missing but is on its way. . The 2024 Pulse For B2B In San Francisco . Honestly, it’ll be challenging to completely replace San Francisco as the B2B hub. . They have no kids or partners, and they’re in B2B. The Future Is Not A One-Size-Fits-All Approach.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring B2B 182

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.

Sales Hiring 195

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 195

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

You might have a few account executives and a sales leader in place; maybe some revenue and a handful of customers. The sales team costs real money, and the question before the company is: how do you know what quota plan to assign to the account executives? Stage 1: Management by Objectives.

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Compensation Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 159

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired by the release of our book Intercom on Sales , we wanted to take a fresh look at three big topics – speed, automation, and growth. We wanted to know: what are sales leaders doing to bring velocity to their sales cycle? How are they using automation to bring new efficiencies to their sales orgs?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. Use sales conversations as a tool to get product feedback. So how do you get there?

Sales Recruiting 88

Sales Recruiting Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring 88

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale Sales Hiring 111

SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

The company scaled from a hundred people to 800, last I know, but it changes every day. We took the series A, interesting enough, the first executive hired by, thanks to the sales coaching, actually was marketing. Growth for us is about massive scaling and hiring. Bobby Patrick: Right. Luciana: It has been quite a journey.

Sales Hiring 251

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 251

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

P9 Panel on Hiring Sales Leaders — Founders Summit 2023 “You are going to fire your first sales manager!” — A lesson too many founders learn the hard way. The Founder isn’t willing to be the first salesperson Many of the best founders we work with don’t have a sales background and are either product or engineering focused.

Sales Hiring 125

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Technical Cofounder 125

OpenView Labs

JUNE 20, 2019

Europe is a major target for B2B SaaS firms seeking to scale their businesses internationally. It’s clear to see that finding new logos in Europe has given many scaling SaaS firms a big headache during the last year. The toughest EU country to hire senior sales/commercial talent. How wrong can they be!

Scale 45

Scale B2B Sales Hiring Scaling 45

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 50,000 revenue professionals weekly to scale their companies and careers. Wiza is the only B2B contact database that sources and verifies contact data in real-time, the moment it’s requested, using LinkedIn as its source of truth. So, Wiza was built.

Banking 89

Banking Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 89

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

“The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one” For Udemy, investing in a B2B arm seemed too obvious, and too good, an opportunity to ignore. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

Marketplace as a Service 243

Marketplace as a Service Scale Sales Recruiting Business 243

SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2020

Wait, are we at just an average B2B software company? We’re basically going to talk about the seven “people” things that nobody tells you when you scale a B2B company. The first thing is, and this is a little crazy, but recruitment is incredibly overrated. Tough Management Lesson #1.

Sales Recruiting 143

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Management Marketing 143

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

What if sales reps can really harness the full potential of the pricy software tools we thought would turn us into sales superstars? Goodbye missed quotas; hello sales engagement!). When science and sales meet, sparks fly. RELATED: What is Sales Engagement? Sales Engagement: A Billion Dollar Market.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Engagement Artificial Intelligence 80

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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Scale Payment Methods Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments 99

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! Having invested in 9 B2B marketplaces and gathered data from 20+ different investors, here are our findings on what it takes to raise money in 2021 for B2B marketplaces.

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Marketplace as a Service Payments B2B SaaS Payments 59

yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2022: Sales Tools. Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 86

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

At Sales Hacker, our Community Leaders help build relationships with our members. Add them to your network and give them a warm welcome, because you’ll be seeing them all over Sales Hacker in the coming months! WHY SALES HACKER? Sales Hacker provides a network of sales professionals dedicated to helping others in similar roles.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Sales 111

yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 52

Valuize Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

In the rapidly evolving B2B recurring revenue economy, the focus on Digital Customer Success is more pertinent than ever. Greg, Karen and Leah generously shared their learnings, challenges and triumphs in building, scaling and maturing their Digital CS programs.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Strategy 52

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Sales 74

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?”. And the primary burden of your product and GTM execution can fall on an effective technical leader and proven sales executive.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Startup 82

Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I've built real friendships with the best B2B marketers in the world and I’m on a text-message basis with countless founders, CEOs, VPs, and executives. I’ve never created LinkedIn content with the “goal” of lead generation or immediate-term sales. These types of endorsements are priceless.

Sales Recruiting 52

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Social Media 52

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 111

Sales Hacker

APRIL 17, 2018

Big announcement out of the Sales Hacker camp today. I’d dropped a note about a very exciting launch from Sales Hacker on our yearly recap and roadmap post last quarter. I’m thrilled to announce that the Sales Hacker Podcast is now live! Everything You Need To Know About the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale B2B 47

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. Worked as an AE and then a sales manager. Decided to go to business school, did that for a little bit and then came out in management consulting, a company. So, they’re a B2B piece.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 164

Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2018

”Tito, how do I go about building a sales team (especially the sales development function) from scratch?” ” It usually comes from founders, or the first sales hire at a company. 1) Training SDRs as if they were Account Executives. 6) Trying to scale with only warm leads. Let me tell you.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 74

User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Organizational scale. This segmentation helps in personalizing marketing and sales strategies effectively. Recruiting Participants for Primary Research Choosing the right participants for primary research is a crucial step in market research. Consider a B2B SaaS company that develops project management software.

Market Research 52

Market Research Sales Recruiting Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

On this episode of the podcast, I interview Arthur Nobel and we discuss scaling SaaS companies. Arthur is a Principal at Knight Capital – an investment firm that specialises in B2B software businesses. What we discovered is companies sometimes struggle with scaling so we dived into the reasons for that.

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Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting SaaS 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Maria and Anthony present the CEO and CMO playbook of how the CEO and CMO can partner with other members of the team to grow sales and marketing. Anthony : Well, last time we were on a stage together, we were filming B2B Creatives, which thank you so much for being a part of that. Want to see more content like this? It was a blast.

Scale 210

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 210

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

They also talked about the difficulties — and potential advantages — of selling into small businesses, taking alternative approaches to interviewing candidates, and the importance of keeping culture a vital part of a company as it scales. What do you think the role of subscriptions are in B2B fintech? It scales with your customers.

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Payments Forecasting Payment Services Payment Solutions 103

User Pilot

APRIL 18, 2024

It’s particularly useful for B2B businesses looking to drive product growth and adoption. These include recruiters, sales managers, and marketers. Industry Type: Firmographic segmentation example This comes in handy for B2B businesses. It comes in handy for localizing the user experience.

Customer Lifetime Value 91

Customer Lifetime Value Sales Recruiting Market Segmentation Scale 91