Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

She’s written extensively on the topic and co-authored a book The Customer Success Economy. Should you hire a COO for your startup? How you should you go about recruiting the right person? Today, she advises and invests in companies on these topics and others. Allison is an incredible builder of teams.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Your startup is just getting off the ground. 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?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

A few factors that contribute to high-performing sales teams: High quota attainment. The best startups invest in their sales teams and work hard so most of the reps hit and exceed quota. Turning over a sales team is very hard on the organization. A great VP of Sales is worth her weight in gold.

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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. At Point Nine, we aspire to continuously share what we learn with our community and the extended startup ecosystem.

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Kellblog

MAY 10, 2021

In this post, I’ll present what I view as the minimum sales management framework for an enterprise SaaS startup — i.e., the basics you should have covered as you seek to build and scale your sales organization [1]. Pipeline management rules, with an optional stage matrix. Management rules (e.g.,

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 1, 2016

There are two main ways of building a SaaS sales team: top down or bottoms up. Top down SaaS sales organizations start with a VP of Sales who often hires senior account executives. Bottoms up sales teams hire the first account manager and promote from within. Which is better? OTE, $k 125 175 250.

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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 then some track record of execution either as the new startup or in the past. Dev Ittycheria : Thank you.

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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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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Every startup’s sales commission plan is different. But it’s key to understand the theory and the benchmark data that governs the creation of sales commission plans to create a good one for your business. Sales compensation is communicated in OTE, On Target Earnings. At the upper end, they spent 11.5%

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Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2022

Celine, who transitioned from agency sales to SaaS, is the Vice President of Boardable. Join us for a great conversation about transitioning in sales and technology selling. Sometimes you have to take one step back to go two steps forward in sales. Sales is all about building internal relationships. powered by Sounder.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. That experience led to his bestselling book, The Sales Acceleration Formula. I just don’t think sales have anything to do with product-market fit. A data-driven framework for scaling.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

At the time, I was a sales engineer, and my job was to close deals and move on to the next prospect. However, I found there were two flaws in our customer management process. After getting slapped on the wrist a few times for my after-sales support, I knew things had to change. We had presales, and we had post-sales.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. Then, the sales team went to work. In his opinion, the hiring process is a preview of their sales technique.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Wiza’s accuracy-obsessed B2B contact database offers 99% coverage of LinkedIn profiles as well as a powerful Chrome extension that enables you to access contact data while browsing LinkedIn profiles and when exporting from Sales Nav. That’s sales. Book: Product-Led SEO by Eli Schwartz. View the launch live demo on demand.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 3, 2021

Anyone who’s ever worked at a startup knows it’s a “get the job done” environment where your title means little and what you do means a lot. Engineering manages IT. Hiring managers take on HR responsibilities. For example, only Finance manages the books, and only Engineering actually writes the code for the product.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 13, 2014

Similarly, Atul Gawande’s book Better echoes this idea. As I’ve watched a handful of startups grow, the pattern I see emerging from most of them is their ability to persistently transform chaos into process. At the beginning, each of these companies pursued product development with something akin to Lean Startup Method.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

In fact, Peter Thiel wrote about brand as a core asset of the best startups in his recent book, Zero to One. This long term view shapes the culture of a startup’s workplace and reinforce values that will attract talented people whose mission aligns with the business. Even if they can’t measure it.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Scott Barton , VP of Industry Solutions at Varicent. He’s an expert in the sales world, particularly in revenue operations and incentive compensation. Join us for a great conversation about driving the right behaviors within your sales team. powered by Sounder.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 8, 2021

In this episode, Kyle Racki , co-founder and CEO of Proposify, talks about how his upbringing helped his sales career, the journey from being a freelancer to a founder, and how to create and maintain a competitive advantage. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. The framework for leading a startup to success [20:45].

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FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2021

You could join a scrappy startup or be employed by a massive tech company. Having more women in technology will help close the gender gap and creates more female mentorship opportunities.” – Elizabeth Faddis – Recruitment Manager. What are your favorite books, podcasts, or websites you follow? “I

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. Before Quip, Sam spent an incredible 3 years at Dropbox where he was the first enterprise sales rep in the entire company. Should you hire 2 at a time?

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

How he founded Sales playbook. I founded SalesPlaybook after getting frustrated by the lack or absence of sales support for startup founders. A lot of these companies have never done outbound sales and they don’t have a repeatable process in place and they haven’t really nailed down their ideal customer profile.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 16, 2019

Nothing really stood out until I stumbled across a “Director of Sales and Client Relations” role with a company called Jammony. Jammony was a little startup (I didn’t know then that it was literally just Matt) focused on making the process of getting a fair mortgage more streamlined and fair. Director of Sales and love what I do.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Customer pull is an amazing feeling for a startup. As a seed stage company grows, hires a sales team and deploys the product to more customers, the signs of customer pull evolve. The company transitions from pilots with friendly customers to product sales. Product engagement remains high.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A recruiter? For example, you may include your specific skills or specialisms to get found by recruiters with the most relevant job opportunities. Sold a bunch of books? Keep your headline free of jargon, particularly if you’re using LinkedIn for sales or lead generation. A potential lead? Have you won an award perhaps?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

If you missed episode 125, check it out here: The Power of Authenticity and Emotional Intelligence in Sales with Mykal White. 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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2019

But wouldn’t it be even better to learn from proven cold email success stories that drove everything from website backlinks to booked meetings, and more? Our process is as follows: Ask for a quote from the startup founder, exec or business influencer to include in an upcoming article they’d want to weigh in on.

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. I don’t know anything about sales. More power to you.

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

So, you’re thinking of taking a job at a startup, but are nervous about the risk, perhaps having trouble telling one from another, and unsure about knowing what’s really important in startup success. Startups are about people. Great core/founding team. We live in a founder-friendly VC era.

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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. It was about, these people that have already pulled in, how do I now convert them into marketing qualified leads for our local sales teams?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

“The journey from startup to scale-up is a fascinating story, and we thoroughly enjoy sharing our perspective, our insights and our experiences” The journey from startup to scale-up is a fascinating story, and we thoroughly enjoy sharing our perspective, our insights and our experiences as we continue on that journey.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Though, if we narrow it down to just the highly successful ones—that is, startups that exit for more than $100 million—it takes nearly double that time: 11 years. As of this year, Bloomberg reports that the median age of founders of successful startup s (which they define as companies that exited at more than $1 billion) was 34 years old.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2013

Contained within building 42 was the epicenter of product management: Jonathan Rosenberg’s office. Immediately next to his office stood a collection of three bookcases containing a library of different books on various topics that JR curated. Tech talks, negotiations seminars, sales training, all the education you needed was there.

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Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This was a fairly easy case to make — when we analyzed won deals, there was a strong correlation between sales prospects that had met our team in person, and the deal closing. We also made a firm decision to ban our sales team from the community. Recruitment. 10 more are currently in active sales conversations.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

* What does Jessica believe is the right way for sales reps to engage with new customers during this time? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts? What specific and deliberate things can startups do not just to prevent churn but also to increase usage and upsell? This podcast is sponsored by Guru.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I think one of the key reasons for this perspective is that there really aren’t many proven best practices for how operators can actually create categories — a problem that I wanted to help address by publishing a book on the topic. What’s a sample job description that I can use to recruit talent?

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