SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2021

And at a sales perspective, they’ll move to optimizing revenue per lead, over closing every possibly lead. Once sales and marketing gets to be all about the top line, you need to let some marginal customers just go, if for no other reason than holding on price. Harder to Recruit. More on that here.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

At a16z’s recent Connect/Fintech event, a16z Partner Alex Immerman sat down for a broad conversation with Immad Akhund , co-founder and CEO of banking startup Mercury , and René Lacerte, founder and CEO of financial services company BILL. We’re experimenting with it, but we haven’t made a massive investment.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. And so that was what you’re investing in.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Account Managers: They serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. Average salary: $46,035/yr.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

So, there’s all these people who are just using debit cards, and just walking around with debit cards with 120 000 in the bank, or just using their personal card for all these things. ” We all have all these banks, and they’re a pain to deal with. We have a banking partner, but we basically do everything.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk. The exchange of value.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Have you ever dreamed of becoming a VP of Sales? This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak to Dan Cook, SVP of Sales & Success at LucidChart, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the US, about what it takes to become a sales executive at a top company. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk. The exchange of value.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 6, 2020

As a result of this planning, some key decisions included: Taking out a line of credit: As soon as Mary joined Salsify, she had the company take out a line of credit with Silicon Valley Bank, which provided an extra safety net. Preserving key investments: Salsify also looked at newer investments they’d made.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

But in working with these enterprises in their corporate l&d teams, and seeing the inefficiencies in the workflows, and and then coming from a sales background, seeing existing operating systems for rev ops, or even DevOps for software development, or marketing, ops, so on and so on. it’s a sports tech company. Check it out.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matt Rizzetta , founder of North 6th Agency, which is a communications and PR firm based in New York City. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to get better at sales [21:37]. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I remember talking to Belgium investors at the time and everybody said, look, enterprise software is dead, there’s no opportunity through investment. Felix : It was a lot easier to invest to convince customers and investors and so we actually, I mean more of a European way of scaling a company. It made raising money a lot harder.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 29, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Todd Caponi , former CRO of PowerReviews about how to sell enterprise software solutions with increased transparency in the sales process. How to evolve your sales posture given the changes in sales conversations over the last 20 years. What You’ll Learn.

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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. Investors are incentivised to put their money anywhere other than a bank. The second army are your main competitors. Money is cheap.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

How does the product and what you invest in proactively need to change as you move into enterprise? I was personally responsible for my action, to any concurrent projects on the delivery side, I was responsible for managing digital marketing, recruiting. What are the benefits of starting in SMB? We had a pretty big team.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Partnering with the Sales and Product teams to define product goals and Tread’s roadmap. Training (on and off site), onboarding new users, and managing technical requests and queries. Training (on and off site), onboarding new users, and managing technical requests and queries. Develop key relationships with subscribers.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

I passed on one company where we were really excited to invest in, but then the verbal metrics did not match up with the reality,” recalls Sanjiv. “In If they made an investment in an adjacent space that went poorly, they might choose to swear off the space entirely.” . Your metrics are unclear or misleading. “I she continues.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

What ends up happening is, they think these investors are so smart, and they think these investors, because they like and want to invest in their company, their company must be amazing and it’s going to go on to become the next big thing. We had half a million in the bank. Who’s going to lead sales?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

The team is typically highly cross-functional, working together with sales, product, engineering, and marketing, and the goal is to help the other teams make better decisions through data and financial modeling. This role can be recruited through headhunters or your network. Invest in next-gen finance tooling.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We continue that practice today, and extend it to include roles that aren’t typically exposed to customers—operations people, accountants, recruiters, etc. For instance, recruiters with first-hand customer experience are able to give job candidates real examples of what it’s like to work at Zapier.

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Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

There are plenty of happy smiling recruitment videos for call centers on Youtube but the real data on how people feel can be found in the comments section. And at the call center I was at, the recruiters told me the job wasn't a sales job, just customer service. Bank call centers are strict and depressing, i avoid those.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

I was just talking with Tracy about how when we make offers to people, in our offer documents we list out our cash balance in our bank account. I want to come be your VP of sales and, you’re going to meet me for the first time. Spencer : For me, the key things for a VP of sales is, “OK, tell me about your best reps.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

And then one of the VCs that had invested in me, Storm Ventures, brought me in as a partner. I’d never done any investments before, but I just invested in some of the founders that were fans of the SaaStr blog and it worked out okay. You never get to spend less time in sales as a SaaS CEO.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 20, 2021

Role: Vice President of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Lockstep As a Vice President of Customer Success, you will manage all aspects of the Customer Success team at Lockstep. Build, recruit, retain, and grow a team of great customer success representatives.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

So Plaid, we build the infrastructure that lets consumers interact with their bank accounts on the web. The core thesis behind it is banking was built for a world that didn’t envision the internet. And so what we build is the infrastructure that lets you programmatically interact with your bank account.

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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Barrett Boston , Chief Revenue Officer at TriNet. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 9, 2019

Close shaves with nearly $0 in the bank. We had 2 weeks of runway in the bank. We like to invest in resilient CEOs,” say the investors. “I let $800k sit in the bank for seven years. Find your target companies, which challenge people in the same ways you do, and then recruit their former employees.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. The key here is knowing what your sales model is. And there are basically two sales models out there. Kind of extreme sales models out there for SaaS businesses.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

This article will look at the most successful SaaS companies, so you can decide if you want to invest in them for your business. This adaptability is essential for high-growth companies that require rapid scaling without significant initial IT investments. There are many SaaS products , but knowing that, how do you choose the best?

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Leading commerce platform Shopify helps merchants set up and manage their business and stores across various sales channels.

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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.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I started a software company in college to make it easy to update websites called Content Management Software Now, and I had this idea for Pardot, I wanted to make it easy for marketers to run campaigns online and measure their results. SalesLoft, why was that Pardot, I tried to recruit this guy, Kyle Porter, to come run sales at Pardot.

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