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How Revenue Leaders at Box, Calendly, and Lattice Scaled From $0 to $100M+ and Beyond

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How do you diagnose and solve churn? Sales reps were hosting 4-6 calls daily but most of these calls were early demos or top-of-funnel discovery calls Sales was closing really small deals on one end while talking to really large companies with hundreds of thousands of people on the other. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

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How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs? How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings.

Scale 127
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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Work-Bench and Initialized Capital — May 8, 2020

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* 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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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

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Then we went on to build another company called SteelBrick, another SaaS configure price quoting solution. And here’s some interesting data also, on the challenge for SaaS vendors, for all of us, that we will, a lot … most of us will see increased churn. It’s most severe in the SMB world.

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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

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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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SaaStr Podcast #213: Tom Tunguz, GP @ Redpoint Ventures On Why Scoring Leads May Actually Be Dangerous

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How does this differ when comparing enterprise to SMB? How does Tom think about calculating churn when it comes to multi-year contracts? How does this differ when comparing SMB to enterprise? What were the commonalities of leading indicators of churn? What is the right way to conduct a churn analysis?

Scale 115
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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

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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. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”