Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Our bank account takes a hit. Selling to Big Companies. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales. Top of Mind.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

5 Reasons I Hate the Rule of 40 by Mikael Johnsson, SaaS Nordic While not necessarily completely useless, I would strongly argue that R40 is a metric applicable to the world of PE and public markets investing and is not a good metric for assessing the quality of venture-stage companies. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). The convergence of these changes has led many to realize that “growth” is a team sport. Decisions made within the product can dramatically impact the success of a marketing team and the growth of a company.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. What were Karen’s biggest takeaways from seeing the hyper-scaling at Box?

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. People are like, of course I do invest in Adyen, it’s a misspelling of his name, he’s investing in himself. And we basically still work that way.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. Chase Merchant Services that we’re now a part of processes $1.2 So I think like anything it’s been good and bad. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2020

The downside of this is that you’ll need to invest a lot of time and effort into engaging with those leads and making them want your product/service. Sales Accepted Leads, on the other hand, already had their first, second, and third touch with your unique value propositions, product, or service. The answer lies in pop-ups.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally.

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How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 1, 2021

Your course gets the advantage of getting promoted in these online course platform marketplaces. Online Course Marketplace. Online Course Marketplaces. In a course marketplace, the course you create becomes part of a catalog and you get an existing student base to sell online courses to. Question bank management.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. Poor marketing. A better strategy is to prioritize building your audience alongside developing the product. Invest in partnerships to grow your reach.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

Paul’s engrossed in Principles by Ray Dalio, which follows an investment banker’s successes, failures and future redemption guided by a set of ideals. Or showing you your bank balance. They got a bad rep, but they’ve come through the other end, I think. To take Paul’s example, a bot that tells you your bank balance.

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