SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs? How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings.

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 128

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

Ever since he was hired as the Director of EMEA Sales at BrowserStack , a web and mobile testing platform that lets developers test their websites and mobile applications across browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, he had to completely rethink how to successfully onboard hundreds of salespeople just as everyone was going remote.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales at Slack. Kevin’s sales career has taken him from Oracle, to Dropbox, to Salesforce, and now, to Slack. How experience as a sales engineer can play into your role as a sales leader. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 52

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As for Ryan, prior to G2 he was Senior Director of Global Marketing at Hubspot where among many other achievements, he scaled HubSpot’s marketing-generated sales revenue by 330% year-over-year. It was about, these people that have already pulled in, how do I now convert them into marketing qualified leads for our local sales teams?

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 131

SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

How does Andrew advise founders on the question of whether to start in enterprise or SMB? What are the benefits of starting in SMB? I was personally responsible for my action, to any concurrent projects on the delivery side, I was responsible for managing digital marketing, recruiting. What are those leading indicators?

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Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 145

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Apply here: [link] Role: Customer Success Manager (SMB) Location: Remote, OR, US Organization: Matterport As a Customer Success Manager, you will manage all post-sales activity for assigned SMB to Mid-Market customer segments through strong relationship-building, product knowledge, engagement planning, and upsell/cross-sell execution.

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Sales Recruiting Customer Success Technical Review SMB 10

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. In a year like this, SMB is doing worse, with a lot more churn and startups going out of business. He ran from the term.

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Sales Hiring AI SMB Scale 217

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Vikas Bhambri , SVP of Global Sales and Customer Experience at Kustomer. Vikas is a well-respected sales leader in NYC and comes from a sales engineering and product background, with more than 20 years experience. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Sales Hiring Startup Scale Sales Recruiting 50

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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Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 202

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

APRIL 8, 2019

Internal Team: Hire your own Sales Development Rep (SDR) team that is 100% dedicated to outbound prospecting. If you have the management capacity to hire and train someone, this is ideal. Cons: Can be slower to find and train a great SDR, requires more management bandwidth. Optional: Recruiting fees. Joe Toste 4.

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Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 40

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

especially for SMB SaaS startups. These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. Your partners act as an outsourced sales and marketing team. Working with established partners in existing markets, you don’t need new offices, hires, or associated marketing and sales spends.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 111

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

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 180

Kellblog

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

In my consulting and advising work, I’ve worked with a number of enterprise SaaS companies that get stuck with a broken go-to-market (GTM) motion. Weak sales productivity , measured either relative to the company’s model or industry averages (median $675K) [2]. High sales turnover. What do I mean by broken?

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Marketing Scale 134

yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Sales Stack 2021. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. Sales technology for professional sales will be more important than ever. In 2020 almost every single Sales Professional was forced inside. Same goes for Sales Professionals.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 104

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

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 211

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In the summer of 2015, Box co-founder Aaron Levie recruited Jeetu Patel to create an open platform where developers could build Box content management into their own products. And so, for products that are solely self-serve (and solely SMB or very small business), it can make less sense for us to go after it, right?

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

SaaStr

JUNE 9, 2021

A ways back, I asked Brendon Cassidy, VP of Sales at LinkedIn, Adobe Sign / EchoSign, and Talkdesk to put together his playbook for double sales. … How We Increased Sales Nearly 100% In One Quarter at HackerRank – Brendon Cassidy. I thought it was a great checklist for all of us to take a look at.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Sales 273

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. Nikos : In your case, I understand your company also shifted slightly on the market, like from SMB to bigger customers. Dan : We’d start it with sales. Craig : Yeah. Nikos : Yes.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 256

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got Alyssa Merwin , Vice President of Sales Solutions for LinkedIn, North America. She runs Sales Navigator and is perhaps one of the most important people selling sales engagement and sales software in the world. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Management Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Development Team Review 72

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. Loving our podcast content?

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 111

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Why did Jeppe decide to focus on SMBs from Day 1? How does the product build in the early days differ when building for SMB vs enterprise? Why does Jeppe believe that building for SMB makes it easier to build a great culture internally? I come from management consulting and I worked with large companies for quite a few years.

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Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 121