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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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The exciting thing about prototypes is that large-scale experiments can be built through open-source projects , which companies like Netflix and Linkedin will do as a strategic way of recruiting top talent. . Why startup founders should treat fundraising like a sales funnel. Milestone: First traction and product-market fit .

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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. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales. So we’ve built the playbook and the culture. And then on competencies.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

We help companies understand what data they have, where they can find it, and ultimately that they can really trust it. Product-market fit has been really important. And so again we would just have added to more kind of friction in the sales cycle and there was a whole video long sales cycle. Felix : Yes.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

I was personally responsible for my action, to any concurrent projects on the delivery side, I was responsible for managing digital marketing, recruiting. And from that perspective, I do think that there is in view, sort of a proven formal and [inaudible 00:08:17] expand where you figure out your product market fit.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. To date the company has raised over $132M in financing from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Index, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins to name a few. What worked?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 26, 2021

Catherine Brodigan , Business Development Partnerships Manager, sees this value at work across the sales team. “As As Abde Tambawala, Senior Director of Sales Operations, says, “Obsessing about our customers’ problems is not just a customer-facing team’s priority.

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SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2023

Recruit diverse leaders The goal of hiring a revenue leader is to put gasoline on finding product market fit success. Hire a leader who will not only agree with you but someone you can disagree with in a respectful and productive way. Prioritize demand discovery Demand is a strong indicator of product market fit.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 25, 2019

Paul Graham puts it like this: “A startup is a company designed to grow fast”. In general, growth is a good problem to have – it means you’ve found some measure of product market fit and you’re generating real revenue from active users. Making sure culture scales as you grow.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

To meet buyers’ high expectations and manage the challenging sales landscape, companies must involve their entire organization in maturing the sales process- including after prospects sign on the dotted line. And it was all about relationship building with our sales reps, which is a super useful tactic.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

He provides an in-depth guide to driving revenue growth at your company and what to expect at each stage. The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. What is sales? What is sales? Isn’t sales really around customer value creation?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

Often founders who become CEOs of scaling companies start to burn out when they’re consistently doing the things that they hate doing. If you really hate sitting through a dozen sales comp meetings, maybe you should find somebody who can really fulfill that role. We bought a few dozen companies while that team reported to me.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In it, we focus on a product-led tweet storm on running sales in an era of product-led growth, plus an interview with our own Product Manager Neel Desai re: the State of Product Marketing report for 2019. "I Culture is made up of rituals, shared languages, symbols, and the principles.".

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

For those that do not know, HelloSign is the company reimagining how you approach your most important business agreements with their award-winning e-Sign solution. As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Prior to Figma, Amanda held numerous roles at Zendesk including SVP of Marketing and Sales Strategy. Amanda joined Zendesk as the first marketing hire and over the next 7 years Zendesk grew to over 2,000 employees. Before Zendesk, Amanda worked on the marketing team for Google’s Enterprise SaaS businesses.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers. Speaking your customers’ language will accelerate your sales and make your brand more engaging. Click To Tweet. You learn your customers’ language.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers. Speaking your customers’ language will accelerate your sales and make your brand more engaging. Tweet this quote. You learn your customers’ language.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

Companies that have great, happy, productive employees do better by every single return. Katie Burke : So, the inevitable question, maybe one of the reasons you’re all here, is you’re sort of thinking, “Well, I’m exploring product market fit. And I sort of understand that.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

And you can say Tradeshift started with enterprise, but I also think I had a little bit of scar tissue from that because selling into enterprise as an early stage company, it is just tough because it’s hard to get your product market fit. How do you structure the sales team given the segment being targeted?

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