InsightSquared

MARCH 6, 2018

Sales operations has been around for quite some time, but lately the function has been gaining momentum. Instead of behind-the-scenes sales support, sales ops now acts as a strategic partner for sales VPs and leadership. Start building out your sales operations department by hiring someone to own your CRM.

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User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Organizational scale. This segmentation helps in personalizing marketing and sales strategies effectively. Recruiting Participants for Primary Research Choosing the right participants for primary research is a crucial step in market research. Businesses prioritize obtaining user data such as: Job functions. Lifestyle choices.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The sales enablement industry has taken tremendous strides in recent years, but by most measures, it's still a relatively immature function. To fill this "best practices void" and play my part in elevating the role of sales enablement I often take ideas from other fields and apply them to my work at HubSpot.

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A Smart Bear

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” What are the fundamental forces that transform organizations at scale? Marketing isn’t scheduling a launch and recruiting isn’t timing the start-dates of the next 50 hires in customer service and sales.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. They go for the sale without caring about what the customer needs in the first place. Coach regularly.

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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. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

What were Steve’s biggest takeaways from seeing the hyper-scaling at AppDynamics? Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” Where does Steve find common points of tension between sales and marketing? How can a CEO determine when is the right time to fundamentally invest in devops? What works?

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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I remember talking to Belgium investors at the time and everybody said, look, enterprise software is dead, there’s no opportunity through investment. Felix : It was a lot easier to invest to convince customers and investors and so we actually, I mean more of a European way of scaling a company.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Typically on SaaStr.com, we try to focus our content on mistakes to avoid, lessons learned and how to scale faster, but for the CEO Summit, Jason addressed the audience with what’s most top of mind for him at the start of 2024. “I really think we are in a new world as managers and as leaders,” Jason said to kick things off.

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Sales Recruiting Trends Sales Hiring Software Review 279

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. They go for the sale without caring about what the customer needs in the first place. Coach regularly.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Startup 52

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 152

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. I was a local sales manager or regional manager.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 254

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Then trying to maintain that as we scale is always the challenge. Josh : I made probably the first 50, 60 offers in the company personally, and that does not scale. It’s kind of an inside joke, but basically that’s a way to scale something that we knew was important early on, but I was no longer able to go do myself.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Barrett Boston , Chief Revenue Officer at TriNet. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales.

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Leadership Scale Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering 78

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Daniel, you grew to 3 million in ARR before you hired a VP of Sales. You had all the reps and SDRs reporting to you, managed it all yourself. How’d you manage all that? Daniel : We followed a lean start up approach to building our sales process. An engineering team and the sales team was me with a laptop.

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

With a $60 billion market in which to grow, these companies recognize that smart use of partnership channels can help them scale up while creating a win-win-win ecosystem for the company, the partner, and the customer. Affiliates usually receive some kind of compensation (more on this below) for their work. Effective Scaling.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Co-founder and CEO at Greenhouse, Daniel Chait, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Greenhouse, a successful recruiting software company at $200M in ARR today. The swing nature is true for where to invest marketing dollars, so founders need to be thoughtful when running a portfolio of bets.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2022

I really appreciate you coming to talk about how to attract, hire, and build a more diverse sales team in your organization. So I’ve been building top-producing sales teams for a really, really long time. So over the years, I’ve watched many sales leaders go out and say, “Brian’s my top producer.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Sales 211

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 132

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify, and Gremlin all prior guests on the show, I hasten to add. Before joining Redpoint, Tomasz was the product manager for Google’s AdSense social-media products and AdSense internationalization. Should sales commission be paid on renewals?

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Scale SMB Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 114

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Jamie Scarborough , Co-Founder of the Sales Talent Agency, one of the largest sales recruitment firms in North America. . The keys to building your own business as a career sales professional. Moving into sales from other industries. What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 15, 2019

Some of the most successful and influential SaaS companies include channel sales in their go-to-market strategy. For the uninitiated, channel sales refers to the process of partnering with third parties to get your product into the end user’s hands. Channel Sales versus Direct Sales – The Good and the Bad.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 85

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 118

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? Why is 12 months so crucial? Harry Stebbings: Absolutely.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2019

The most sophisticated marketing plans today deploy at least nine disciplines which range from content marketing, to evangelist recruitment, to customer lifecycle marketing and beyond. This is episode three of Scale, a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 173

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Regardless of what stage you are in, he provides a framework to systematically approach this stage and what you should focus on to get to scale faster. We are screwing up the scale. What is sales? What is sales? Isn’t sales really around customer value creation? Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Scale Sales Hiring Revenue VP of Engineering 207

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. We’re on iTunes.

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Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Data 94

Sales Hacker

APRIL 30, 2018

To see what selling on steroids looks like, check out companies with the best sales enablement strategies. You’ll discover a lively place, with a lot of things — like revenue, productivity, and win rate s — going up, and a lot of things — like speed to revenue, sale cycle period, customer churn, and staff attrition rate — going down.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify and Gremlin all prior guests on the show I hasten to add. What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * Where should the responsibility for upsell lie, customer success or sales? So I love that description.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. So, not that many people have started so early in the career, so long in the space, and great investments that we know like Datadog and Fastly, and good at it. GP and founder of Amplify Partners. Jason Lemkin: Crazy.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. Top 2018 Sales Trends & Predictions – Strategic Headlines.

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