SmartKarrot

MARCH 2, 2023

The Venture Capital sector has seen substantial expansion in recent times and some VCs have started to podcast and share valuable resources for entrepreneurs, other investors, and those interested in learning more about the industry. Hoffman hosts a podcast named Masters of Scale where he interviews a new founder every episode.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Jonathan Sherry , Co-Founder and COO at CB Insights. John has some incredible first-hand experience on how to scale a business, build culture intentionally, and retain the allegiance, alliance, and credibility of the people who work for you. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Scale 55

Scale Sales Hiring Management Forecasting 55

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

Last month, housing sales in the US are actually ahead of last year, like literally ahead. I mean, for a company that had pretty good scale. If 15 to 20% are COVID beneficiaries, can that absorb all the ventured capital? Does venture capital even need to bother? Somehow this defies logic but is true.

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Investment Scale Travel Venture Capital 152

SaaSOptics

DECEMBER 7, 2021

How to Raise Capital: Preparation, Benchmarks, and Best practices [Webinar Recap]. That was the central theme of a recent webinar about preparing for a capital raise. Raising capital is an ongoing process that needs to be implemented continuously, whether you’re at a pre-seed stage or have your IPO in sight.

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Benchmarks Scale Venture Capital Outsourced Development 77

Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

We don’t have any agreed upon budgets, or any sales reps with quotas. Sales quotas and forecasts can hurt your business… and we’ve all seen it Let me start by saying that I live in the same world that you do, one where it’s nearly impossible to avoid being beaten over the head with messaging citing the importance of goal setting.

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Forecasting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can think of Horizontal SaaS as broad-based tech that is industry agnostic; a sales person at a Cybersecurity company can use HubSpot the same way a sales person at a Health Supplements company might use it. Benchmarks across the PLG user journey The hardest part of PLG might actually be… marketing?! Forget about Threads.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

How do good founders respond to questions on not achieving sales targets? #2: They have funding from some of the best in the business including the likes of Benchmark, Sequoia, Redpoint and Marc Benioff, just to name a few. 3: Godfather of Sales John Barrow on How To React When a Lead Goes Dark. Episode No. Episode No.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Scale Software Review 150

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Do you gun straight for the glamour (and pressure) of venture capital investment? What about a venture capitalist who might be sympathetic to your mission? Going into the pursuit of funding without a plan can lead you nowhere—or, even worse, leave you saddled with a funding plan that’s bad for you and your business.

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Venture Capital Scale SaaS Benchmarks 56

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. We’re on iTunes.

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Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 96

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2021

What began as a crowdsourcing initiative quickly evolved into an ecosystem where women can access funding, business training, and community building to help their businesses scale. I have to do this, this, this, this, and that, and it leads up to a goal.” And that leads me to A, which is allyship.

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Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Business Scale 151

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In this session, hear from three women who founded, funded and are leading WebPT, one of the nation’s fastest-growing SaaS companies in the specialty electronic medical record sector. Learn what it takes to create your own category, achieve scale in a niche SaaS vertical and how it requires more than just discovering an unmet need.

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Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 169

The Angel VC

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Today I want to put more focus on factors that kick in a little later in the lifecycle of a SaaS company – aspects that have an impact on a company's ability to scale customer acquisition, increase ARPA and create lock-in. Zendesk's benchmarking reports come to mind as an example. Anyone who's done or tried it knows what I mean.

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Startup SaaS Acquisition Scale 152

SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

It had about 100 people in the room and, at the time, it was most of the leading public and private cloud CEOs. Microsoft’s recent appointment of Satya as CEO, he was the head of cloud business and he’s driving the cloud agenda there, which is what’s lead to their massive market cap appreciation.

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