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In-House vs. Outsourced Sales: A Case for NOT Hiring SDRs

Sales Hacker

Early in my career, I saw firsthand how a $20M funded company went from startup to NASDAQ IPO to being delisted in the span of three years due to frivolous spending (but that’s a story for another day). My cost-conscious lens (plus our proven outbound sales program) has served my company, Leadium, well. Software costs.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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A Step by Step Guide to Revenue Growth with Mark Roberge (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

What is sales? What is sales? Isn’t sales really around customer value creation? Sales is not about revenue generation, it’s around customer value creation. Why are we so obsessed with sales being focused on revenue? We have the subscription revenue. The subscription economy.

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. Write down your principles (like your mission statement) and use it very early for guiding culture and decision making.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Today he is the man behind Predictable Revenue, the “Outbound Success Company.” Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO. His next step was at Viddheo, where he got into Inside Sales.

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

SaaStr

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Box and Eventbrite — September 6, 2019

SaaStr

As for Jon, prior to being Chief Customer Officer at Box, he was Senior VP of Customer Success, responsible for all post-sales services Box provides from implementation to user adoption and more. How to build an engineering team. This podcast is an excerpt of Pat’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Missed the session? Jon Herstein.