SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

We ended up signing that contract in the uber back to the airport on the way home. It was our largest contract to date, kind of helps the other quarter. They talked to all the customers, they did reference calls and turns out they said really, really good things about us and lo and behold it led to our series A.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2020

Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., If they are already solving the problem in some way, your new solution more likely represents an optimization than a breakthrough. That takes a lot of hiring and on-boarding risk off the table. Be realistic about this.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So you were the first sales hire. Talk to me about the sales hires that you made back in the early days and talk to me about how it changed through the different stages. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. The very first few sales hire are I would say not your typical reps. Laura Bilazarian : Awesome.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

Positioning compensates for our over-communicated society by using an oversimplified message to cut through the clutter and get into the mind. Wikipedia Definition : " Positioning refers to the place that a brand occupies in the minds of the customers and how it is distinguished from the products of the competitors.

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