Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

You can’t have a top down budget created by an executive team and approved by the board, while also having self managed teams that are empowered to make decisions by sensing and responding to what the market and the business is telling them. The executive team needed this plan to drive alignment.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. It’s a bad look, it’s a bad way to end your relationship. And a lot of that early founding team came from ExactTarget lineage.

VP of Engineering 63

VP of Engineering Branding Scale Marketing 63

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

If you didn’t catch it the other day … and you can read about it on SaaStr …Microsoft and Google Cloud both had extremely strong quarters, Microsoft Azure grew 40% last quarter , and a record number of nine-figure and billion-dollar deals. But it sounds like the bad news is you’ve got a limited runway.

Scale 185

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 185

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

This morning, a pretty slow growing player, Ping Identity, slow to move to SaaS, slow to move to the cloud, struggled in some ways to compete with Okta and others, was acquired for 2.3 And I think it shows that the top PE firms are pretty optimistic that things are going to remain good and get even better in SaaS and cloud.

Scale 203

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling VP of Engineering 203

Neil Patel

MARCH 21, 2023

You’ll be afraid to take the necessary risks, and your judgment will be clouded by emotion. We all have a great team and support network behind us. If you don’t respect your partner(s), your team won’t last long. Fill your team with people who have great character and you’re well on your way to success.

Entrepreneurship 92

Entrepreneurship Underperforming Technical Team Entertainment Company Culture 92

SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

We’ve convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud. My marketing team wanted me to do the world’s most boring video. Frankly, we got some bad advice from VCs in the early days. Venture capitals are playing a numbers game. background music].

Startup 269

Startup CTO Hire Sales Hiring CTO Coach 269

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

Investment 159

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

394: Where is Venture Capital today? I wanted to have another fun, informal conversation with, one of, I think, the most insightful and smartest cloud investors, Sunil Dhaliwal. Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. And how do you hack it?

Sales Recruiting 166

Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 166

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. Any company that leases its software through a central, cloud-based system can be said to be a SaaS company. What is SaaS? Consistent updates. Growth stage.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

How does David think about scaling sales teams? Number two, you have a team of people that you’ve worked with before and some of whom will come along with you. Do you need business development reps? How should founders think about budget and resource allocation in this search for PMF? Do you need field salespeople?

Scale 189

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 189

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Technology Scale Marketing 223

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded. If not now, then when?”

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Enough venture capital can certainly bridge that gap. And we’re about to add basically a team collaboration tier on top of the product. The second question is more about, given that we’re basically users would be self qualifying into team management offering like a project management, et cetera.

Scale 207

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Enterprise 207

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

So it’s a good number, especially unique for cloud companies. I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. So there’s a lot of kind of, I don’t know, dogma in venture capital.

Payment Methods 137

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 137

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. It is a cloud-based platform that offers the services of Asia’s top AI assistant for hotel staff – Gaia. It provides smart hardware self-development and cloud service.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It’s going to change how everyone thinks about cloud and SaaS for ever. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? We called ourselves a team of four, actually, who operate and make decisions, and it’s just how we rolled. You mean overwhelmed by too much capital? We’re just getting started.

Acquisition 127

Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 127

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’m a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, which is a venture capital firm, which was very lucky to be a part of SendGrid’s journey. A fun story is that I met Sameer about five years ago at a cloud conference. I’ve never been behind a table before so I feel very talk show hosty.

Scale 132

Scale Acquisition Scaling Sales Hiring 132

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. The Role of Customer Success in… Customer Development. Stretch vs. Bad-Fit Customers. Bad Sales Handoffs Cause Customers to Ghost During Onboarding.

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

So we’re really proud of that and our whole team is really proud of that. And one thing that’s been really cool starting the company 10 years ago in an economic downturn to today, about six months ago Matthew and I and our team took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange. ” And we knew that was a big idea.

Sales Hiring 167

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 167