SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created. New Relic’s General Manager, Mark Weitzel, weighs in on how you can support your developers.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As for Tamar, previously, Tamar was a Vice President at Google, holding product and engineering leadership roles on Google’s most important products, including Search, Identity, and Privacy. How does Tamar structure the customer development process? I was a C++ developer working on electromigration on a full chip.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

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. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Know your forever user.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

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. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Claire Johnson: If you don’t know us, I’d love to change that.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

Acquisitions can help fuel growth, but often go awry when the company fails to explicitly instruct their internal teams to step aside so that the new hires can do their jobs. You have no idea what the people in the management team are really thinking about. The second is employees. How to think about org structure.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. And so really it became a bad habit. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

I’ve pulled together the top 97 books from a range of sales disciplines to give you the information you need to stay relevant, lead conversations, understand the trends — and of course, improve your game. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Wooden on Leadership.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. And before box she ran product and engineering teams building large scale financial platforms for Accenture clients. Ciara : Craig’s designed and led teams at enterprise and consumer companies including Salesforce, eBay, and Google.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Customers’ expectations are higher than ever with more access to information and options. Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? This episode is sponsored by Linode. This will be built into the product.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Full impact of new GDPR regulations and compliance laws – likely to hurt many outbound focused businesses who fail to comply. Top Sales Trends & Predictions of 2018: Buyer Side Technology Continues to Disrupt Sales Development & Demand Generation. Review Sites Continue to Influence Decision Makers in a Powerful Way.

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