OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The market need for SaaS products has exploded and investment in SaaS companies has accelerated, requiring more talent to grow and scale. And the primary burden of your product and GTM execution can fall on an effective technical leader and proven sales executive. Accelerate hiring of internal recruiters.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 26, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Rahim Fazal , Co-Founder and CEO of the SV Academy. If you missed episode 71, check it out here: PODCAST 71: Why is Account Based Marketing Not Working w/ Latane Conant. Keeping up with the evolution of sales. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. What You’ll Learn.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 13, 2021

Cloud and SaaS companies overall benefited from the dramatic shift to digital and remote work in the US and around the world since March 2020. That doesn’t mean that 2020 wasn’t hard to manage through, but overall as a sector, SaaS companies grew revenue and valuations skyrocketed. SaaS Management and Operations.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Mary Rogul , a VP Sales Consultant, who’s currently an Enterprise Sales Advisor at Crayon. Fresh out of college, Mary started out in accounting, but it didn’t take long before she began a 20-year sales career that led her through Monster.com, HubSpot, and several others.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

And we’re also pleased, now to have almost a hundred thousand different SaaS products listed there, and being backed by a hundred million dollars from LinkedIn and some great investors that do allow us to keep investing in this marketplace. And companies in general, are also right now, investing more in software and digital.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

What’s a sample job description that I can use to recruit talent? Eventually all businesses—whether category creators or disruptors—will have to become more capital efficient and manage sales and marketing expenses against industry benchmarks. How can I convince my CEO that CATEGORY X is important?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. Lead generation tools do change, but the basic motions of sales and marketing haven’t changed much.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The backup of 2020 was great, 2021 comes in and somehow we have 600 unicorns and everyone can burn 500 million a year or have huge sales teams. But the meta point is this, if you’re recruiting in 2024, beware of the “Lost Generation” candidate and persona you may come across. This starts to get tough.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. The arrival of cloud computing, IaaS, PaaS etc. Cloud computing is dominant. The second army are your main competitors.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. How does the product and what you invest in proactively need to change as you move into enterprise? What are the benefits of starting in SMB? We had a pretty big team.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Can we recruit hiring new team members from January to April, or from January to June this year, just to make sure that as we enter in the next year, we’re able to start off with some wins and not get upside down. [Jay]: You may not be able to get it from the sales ops team anymore.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. We invest all over the country and very much in Europe as well including Paris. Talkdesk is a cloud call center platform for enterprise companies. Ticket prices go up March 1st!

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 5, 2021

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How the role of sales development has changed [13:10]. Keeping new sales professionals focused on the mission [18:44]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Kata Nyitrai , head of global sales development for Meero, a fast-growing company in Europe. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees.

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

Their investments give them contractual rights (e.g., inside rounds) and strong reputations such that other VCs are willing and eager to invest behind them in future rounds [5]. While some new investors might invest anyway, others would want some sort of recapitalization to reflect the business reality before investing.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

And then one of the VCs that had invested in me, Storm Ventures, brought me in as a partner. I’d never done any investments before, but I just invested in some of the founders that were fans of the SaaStr blog and it worked out okay. You never get to spend less time in sales as a SaaS CEO.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

The cloud’s biggest days are yet to come. The rise of the public cloud is driving a massive replatforming of the tech stack and customer experiences for every company. Tables have turned because I first met Mikkel when just after I was working for previous fund index, he had just invested. What’s next? It was 7, 6 years.

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SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2023

The company helps enterprises internationally with contextual and actionable insights to secure their cloud infrastructure. Recruit diverse leaders The goal of hiring a revenue leader is to put gasoline on finding product market fit success. CROs should focus on capturing that unrealized demand which is not a sales-led effort.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. I mean, it’s what you see on the BBP cloud on the left.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Scott Armour. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. The Flip Between Sales and Marketing [29:09]. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Scott has had a multi-decade career specializing in building and scaling sales organizations. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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Software Platform Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

But, there are a few good b2b blogs and newsletters those of you interested in enterprise cloud business applications should follow for inspiration. Because Marketo sells to larger enterprises than Hubspot, there is in-depth content here, especially on metrics for the marketing and sales funnel. Openview Labs. Spend Matters.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In recent years, many businesses have started adopting cloud-based applications such as Salesforce and Microsoft Office 365 to cut down on IT investments and improve the scalability of their business processes. Popular examples include Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Oracle Sales Cloud Salesforce Classic.

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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? Bob Moore: And I was t nerdy engineer in college, so getting the opportunity to have to pitch, it’s really a sales job at the end of the day. Or hey, we missed our sales numbers last quarter, it’s got to be a management issue.

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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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

This article will look at the most successful SaaS companies, so you can decide if you want to invest in them for your business. Cloud computing offers three main service models: SaaS for ready-to-use software, PaaS for application development frameworks, and IaaS for scalable virtualized computing resources.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

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Full Session

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Investing in a tool like Hotjar can help you improve the user experience and your company’s profits. Usability testing recruitment. With Inspectlet, you’ll have always-on visitor recordings that allow you to step into your customer’s shoes to improve and potentially increase your sales conversion rate. Session recording.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Leading commerce platform Shopify helps merchants set up and manage their business and stores across various sales channels.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

Software As A Service (SaaS) is a cloud-based method of delivering on-demand software to users. Using remote cloud servers, users can access and utilize SaaS applications from any web-enabled device. Recruiting a new employee is typically significantly more expensive than retaining an existing employee.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 9, 2022

Software As A Service (SaaS) is a cloud-based method of delivering on-demand software to users. Using remote cloud servers, users can access and utilize SaaS applications from any web-enabled device. Recruiting a new employee is typically significantly more expensive than retaining an existing employee.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. He was investing in internet companies. It’s in the cloud. We built a CPQ in the cloud, can we partner?” He and I went to MIT together.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

373: Bessemer’s 5th Annual State of the Cloud Report returns for a definitive look at the cloud industry today. We want to take you through the cloud journey over the last several years. Now, the cloud index fell along with it. If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Maria and Anthony present the CEO and CMO playbook of how the CEO and CMO can partner with other members of the team to grow sales and marketing. In this Best of Times in Cloud and Saas, learn the questions to ask to hire the CMO expert and create a strong CEO and CMO partnership. They’re investing in growth.

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

If you have not set your workforce up to deal with this and you are not online and in the cloud and all the things that we need as employees in a business, you’re making that transformation now. Meagen, sales. Launch it to our customers, launch it to the sales team, launch it to prospects.” We had duty of care.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

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