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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Valuize Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2021

With global equations used to calculate investment-to-Revenue in traditional functions like Sales or Engineering , it’s often very straightforward to showcase the value and convince CFOs to invest in these organizations. NDR Efficiency: The New Customer Success Economics. These costs can be monetized or considered investments.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You need something that makes you think about your digital business in a new way, renews your motivation, and helps you be more innovative. They could be responsible for substantial online sales later down the line. So, when you’re developing a new idea, ask yourself, “What problem am I solving?”. Ecommerce Inspiration.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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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. The first sponsor is Sapper Consulting. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings, more money. More sales meetings, more money. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Then we needed to hire a sales guy who had experience selling to enterprise. We got the guy who ran enterprise sales at Rackspace. UberConference started as this freemium, kind of funnel builder for later sales product. As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. Wade : Yeah.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Simmone Taitt , CEO of HeartSpace Consulting , and a longtime sales leader and consultant in the New York community. How intuition and heart can be built into a sales organization. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 7, 2014

They have been written by salespeople, CTOs, speechwriters, consultants and magnates. Unlike most business stories which are penned from the point of view of the CEO, this one is written by the CTO/founder, David Hitz. Predictable Revenue is the classic SaaS sales handbook. and building a startup.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Maggie Hott , Director of Sales at Webflow. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom.

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Outseta

APRIL 11, 2019

Let me be very clear—this is not an argument for consulting or the so-called gig economy and I’m not arguing against the need for full-time employees—if you’re hiring a COO, for example, you’re probably going to need that person full-time. Add 40% for benefits and other costs, and that person is costing your company $112,000 per year.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” The State of SaaS Sales in a COVID-19 World. Pricing Low-Touch SaaS: How to Approach Pricing and Packaging a New SaaS App, by Example. Nudging Customers with Behavioral Tactics.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. In short, we observe that Head, Director & VP of Growth titles are becoming more abundant, as are consultants around growth hacking but the "growth hacker" title is fading away. Integrate sales CRM (Salesforce).

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. We’ve got two sponsors, the first is Sapper Consulting. Sapper Consulting makes it easier though, because they built Regie. Sapper Consulting makes it easier though, because they built Regie. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. And something of insight so we are New York based, global venture and equity investor. Let’s say you want to open that Apac sales location, acquiring something earlier stage might be a good way of getting there. The third one would be sales motion.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to Sales Hacker Podcast. We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings. We’re on iTunes.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Jeff Winters, the founder and CEO of Sapper Consulting, one of the top 10 people in the world who can get a dream meeting — a meeting with virtually anybody in the world. If you missed episode 125, check it out here: The Power of Authenticity and Emotional Intelligence in Sales with Mykal White.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Angus Davis , VC and Partner at Foundation Capital. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Sam Jacobs: Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. We’re on iTunes.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

There’s typically direct responsibility for revenue performance, although the marketer’s impact on a business’ bottom line is less cut-and-dry than their counterparts in sales. Co-founder Marketing Consultant Full-time Head of Marketing Here’s an overview of how the trust building process has differed in each capacity.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

The 90-Day Rule , which argues that new managers need to be decisive about who stays on the teams they inherit. Most of the time, in my experience, VCs run in advice/support mode, but if a company starts to have continual performance problems, is considering a new financing, or evaluating potential exit opportunities (e.g.,

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

Moreover, big brands have a fantastic infrastructure in place and you are working in-sync with other teams (marketing, production, sales), meaning that your campaigns are always amplified. Marketing encompasses all the outreach that is done to audiences as opposed to individuals (that would be sales).

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

But after a stint as a consultant I came out to Stanford back in the late ’90s in the dot-com era. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And I think most of your teams, you need sales engineers, you need founders. This was in 1997, and I spent two years.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. You’re doing it from a sales perspective.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

So after like kind of teaching myself a little bit of SEO at these 16 years, it took me a couple of years until basically after college to join a great consultancy that was focused on enterprise clients, where I really learned the craft hands on. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. Kevin: Absolutely.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He also founded SaaScribe to help founders, customer success teams , sales executives, marketing professionals, and growth hackers. Brian Halligan is the founder of HubSpot, one of the world’s leading SaaS products for inbound marketing, sales, and customer service. He writes on sales strategies, sales success, and product launches.

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