OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

“The prevailing go-to-market structure for SaaS companies in the last decade is through an inside sales team. Virtually all inside sales teams were forced to go remote in mid-March and haven’t been back in the office since. Teams are starting to ramp back up, and the next chapter of inside sales is a little wild.

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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. How can you capture, qualify and convert the right leads for your business while working within your means? Short on time?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2018

We’ve been compiling this sales automation tools list for a while, trying to figure out the best way to get the information out there. There are a number of existing resources available on sales automation, but they don’t offer use cases and examples of how to put the tools to action. What Is Sales Automation?

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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

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

A study by HBR found that the 13 companies in the Fortune 100 that were instrumental in creating their categories accounted for 53% of incremental revenue growth and 74% of incremental market cap growth. For every Airbnb there’s a Segway or Google Glass, very fresh technology that never actually found a category to create.

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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. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. The exchange of value.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 14, 2013

It’s a logical question to pose in the aftermath of the Digg sale and the wobbly Facebook IPO. There is one clear lesson from Digg’s sale: the technology that powered a once-massive social network is worth about $500,000. The Atlantic summed up the essence of social networks' business models brilliantly.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

We raised our seed funding in August, 2008 just I think the month before everything almost broke down and we started as of very small for a humble, like probably most startups actually we started as a spinoff from the university of Brussels, where the four founders were doing research on semantic technology. We want to do something there.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. You know, there’s a lot of higher ed, as technology solution companies down there, a lot of investors a lot of customers, before corporate l&d at the time, just didn’t make sense. Or is it just the world reinventing like business models?

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. Since then, you’ve spent over 12 years in post-sales leadership. Going through all parts of the customer journey.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Citrix plans to shift to a subscription business model and software-as-a-service, as the company recently showed strength in its Workplace subscriptions. CEO David Henshall said that the Citrix business is shifting to subscriptions ahead of expectations. Per usual, Zuora’s Tien Tzuo says it well. Welcome to the club, Citrix.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

We are very clear by saying that our story is not a sales story for the next four quarters or so.”. GameStop needs to redesign their whole business model. Recruit your friends into the subscription know by sending them to recurnow.com to sign up for episodes on the daily.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? And in the course of doing that, I think I really discovered and fell in love with SaaS as a business model and it really doubled down on my interest in data analytics. Why is this? What are the drivers of its death?

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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

MAY 24, 2019

Why SaaS is your business model, not your mission. I was personally responsible for my action, to any concurrent projects on the delivery side, I was responsible for managing digital marketing, recruiting. And we actually measured the output and we did the full economics model. Missed the session? Andrew Filev.

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

Newer company/technology. So the third hardest-to-change key factor is technology. If you’re considering going to work at a twelve-year-old startup [6], understand that it’s very likely built on twelve-year-old technology premised on a twelve-plus-year-old architecture. an arms race) and thin (e.g.,

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

And Gold’s article highlights four predictions for this booming business model. Companies will begin to diversify their offerings , launching and experimenting with varying promotions and services to increase subscribers, build loyalty, and drive sales. Recruit your teammates into the subscription know at recurnow.com.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Recurly—provider of enterprise-class subscription billing management for thousands of businesses worldwide—raises $19.5 Breaking down technical concepts for sales, customers, and partners to better understand. That’s because consumers have moved on from new technology innovations. Whether it's. million Series A.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

In the field of technology, nothing remains stagnant. The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence. Customer Support. Raising a $2.8 Eventbrite.

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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. Try New Things.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is the SaaS business model. As a result, revenue recognition is a fundamental part of the SaaS business model. Recurring payments. Early stage.

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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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SmartKarrot

JUNE 15, 2021

You need to recruit the right people since they know the first-hand importance of being data driven. They will get their skills and best practices to improve the business. If you are scarce on resources like finance, you can bring sales, product, and support teams together to improve customer success and fine-tune collaboration.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Veeva is a cloud-based CRM and content management solution built specifically for the pharma and life sciences industry.

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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. We have a lot of technology trends, so cloud was pivotal.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

What are the benefits of the SaaS model? The Software as a Service (SaaS) business model is renowned for its efficiency and flexibility, offering numerous advantages for businesses of all sizes. While SaaS offers numerous benefits, like any technology, it also comes with its share of challenges.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

If talent acquisition, development, and retention are top-of-mind for you as a sales leader, here are 40+ of the best sales training programs to check out! No wonder recruiters go ballistic trying to outdo each other in attracting the best professionals to create value for their companies. Cohen Brown Management Group, Inc.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2019

The SaaS business model has risen to popularity for many reasons – it’s fast-paced, creates residual revenue streams, and well, the multiples are strong. However, while many are flocking to reap the benefits of the SaaS model, truly understanding how it works sustaining success over time is not as easy as some make it look.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Over the past seven years, she’s been responsible for scaling Stripe’s worldwide business operations. And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. They seek out opportunities to be early investors in high-potential technology companies. Interest from channel partners and sales via channel partners can be another meaningful indicator. .

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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. We’re a full-stack technology-powered brokerage helping usher in the hybrid workplace and the office of the future. This episode is sponsored by Linode. Justin Bedecarre: Totally.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2018

UX in the middle, then business and technology, and information and content, and marketing, and all sorts of other stuff all around the edge, all flying around the UX thing. Then, lots of other functions like product management and engineering, which can sit close to those disciplines. Modern sales team talk to learn.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

Below you can watch me deliver that talk in London’s Roundhouse, or read on for a written account. The term “product-first” is implicitly set up in contrast to what came before, which were mostly sales-driven companies. In the world of subscription-based business models, your product better deliver.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

Below you can watch me deliver that talk in London’s Roundhouse, or read on for a written account. The term “product-first” is implicitly set up in contrast to what came before, which were mostly sales-driven companies. In the world of subscription-based business models, your product better deliver.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I mean, I think in a bunch of categories like healthcare and distance learning and infrastructure, this recession, which super sucks for a lot of people, it is going to be an accelerator for tech, because businesses are going to rely on technology and are also going to adopt technology faster. And so, but now they have to.

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