Kellblog

JULY 30, 2023

For example: Marketing exists is to make sales easier. HR exists to help managers manage. This one depends on your sales/success model.) You can make sales easier in very strategic ways, like picking great target markets and working with product to uniquely meet customer requirements. Recruiting support.

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Software Review Technical Review Sales Recruiting Artificial Intelligence 66

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The exciting thing about prototypes is that large-scale experiments can be built through open-source projects , which companies like Netflix and Linkedin will do as a strategic way of recruiting top talent. . Someone accepting your free software is nice, but a champion willing to spend social capital to secure a Purchase Order (P.O.)

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Marketing 82

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 13, 2021

Many of the current vertical SaaS companies started as traditional software, moved to SaaS later, and will have to evolve quickly to remain competitive. From the top: large tech companies are buying SaaS companies and entering markets where they weren’t competitive before. B2B Sales and Marketing.

Sales Recruiting 52

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring SaaS Benchmarks 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

Scale 126

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 126

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

So, you just raised your series E one of the European software unicorns, congrats on that. So let’s start with the origin story of the company. I remember talking to Belgium investors at the time and everybody said, look, enterprise software is dead, there’s no opportunity through investment. Felix : Thank you.

Sales Hiring 174

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Government 174

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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. So just be like if this is any good at all, I’m glad I’m here.

Scale 150

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 150

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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. This podcast is an excerpt of Claire’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019.

Scale 116

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 116

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. There’s none of the brands that you’ve seen get to an IPO or continue on to a Fortune 500 company that is not making some significant investments there.

Sales Hiring 203

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 203

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 161

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 268

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. APIs has become pretty pivotal.

Technical Advisors 160

Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 160

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%.

Sales Hiring 195

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 195

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. They were building time and expense software. And as a hobby we have just launched another SaaS company called ThreeKit. They’re going to be automated by software by robots. And it’s also scary.

Sales Recruiting 173

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 173

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Today he is the man behind Predictable Revenue, the “Outbound Success Company.” The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 8, 2018

In a time where buyer behavior has rendered cold calling nearly obsolete, successful sales prospecting begins with using tools like live chat and social media to build relationships. He’d go on to become the VP of Sales at Sprinklr, guiding the company through its own high growth period, before striking out on his own.

Social Media 186

Social Media Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 186

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

* Nick has previously said, “Burying customer success under sales does not work.” What should the optimal sales to customer success relationship look like? What does Nick mean when he says, “Product is to customer success what marketing is to sales.” Why does this have such a high rate of failure?

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale Sales Recruiting 118

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Centralized HQs with all the perks and amenities “under one roof” have traditionally been used as recruiting tools to attract and retain top talent. And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. This will be a really strong indicator of retention and recruiting.

Sales Recruiting 150

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 150

SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

To meet buyers’ high expectations and manage the challenging sales landscape, companies must involve their entire organization in maturing the sales process- including after prospects sign on the dotted line. And it was all about relationship building with our sales reps, which is a super useful tactic.

Scale 213

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 213

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Does that work for you, Eric?

Sales Hiring 140

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 140

SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

For those that do not know, HelloSign is the company reimagining how you approach your most important business agreements with their award-winning e-Sign solution. As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations.

Sales Hiring 130

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Underperforming Technical Team 130

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Prior to Figma, Amanda held numerous roles at Zendesk including SVP of Marketing and Sales Strategy. How does Amanda balance between a culture of risk taking but also not accepting failure to easily? * What are the benefits of this for the brand of your company? How does Amanda like to run the interview process?

Sales Hiring 106

Sales Hiring Communication Scale Interviewing 106

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So I just happened to show up at this particular moment in time at that particular geography that was at the epicenter of tech and software, which was still in the early innings of its influence. I would take me a lot of bake sales at my local school at my kids’ schools to create that much philanthropic activity.

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Sales Hiring Healthcare Education Technology 298

SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2020

And so I think there’s more we can do to abstract away parts of that so you’re run of the mill sales rep or your run of the mill recruiter or whoever can just sort of step in and be like, “Automation is part of my tool set. That’s a brand that you have, it’s a product. It’s how I do my job.

Cloud 173

Cloud Engineering Sales Recruiting Scale 173

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. Loving our podcast content?

Sales Hiring 113

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 113

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. You’re facing extremely long sales cycles, which doesn’t really align with the quick results you want to have as a business.

Scale 120

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 120