SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

* How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? In the early days, partnerships can be a distraction, how does Bob determine between right and wrong when determining whether to engage in a partnership? 298: Startup success is not exclusive to Silicon Valley.

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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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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

That’s definitely more efficient and cheaper than driving demand through an outbound motion where there’s an SDR, and there’s a sales ops layer that’s feeding that SDR. The Takeaway — While 2024 should be a bit more predictable, the most important metrics ZoomInfo is focusing on now are utilization and engagement.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam’s Corner [28:45]. Show Introduction [00:10]. Check them out.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

All you’ve got to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, oh, and do all of this with less time, okay? Our second sponsor is Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform. Sales enablement is easy. The result?

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. We decided at that point to bite the bullet and say everything we’re going to do, whether it’s how we architect the software, how we go to market, how we actually contract everything is SaaS from here on out. Your big money is going to go into hiring your employees.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

. * How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? * Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? How does Karl structure the hiring process today?

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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. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

When I was a couple of years into my tenure at Oracle, I moved down to Latin America to Argentina, sight unseen actually, and built out a telesales group in Argentina and then later in Miami, hiring about 100 people from 11 different countries and that early building experience really whet my appetite. I came back to North America.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Really excited for engaging discussion on something I’m passionate about, the future of the customer. Our challenge and our opportunity in customer engagement is staying tightly aligned with the business drivers, having the discipline to manage long term customer journey even when the short term options might be easier.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Definitely working on it. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Yousuf Khan: Well, it’s definitely evolved over time. It’s definitely increased over time.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

“The biggest thing I can do for Slack is to hire people who know a lot more than I do and give them free rein to do their best work” Adam Risman: You mentioned the team started with performance marketing. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team. Andrew Chen: Exactly.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

All you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money. Oh, and do all of this with less time. Second sponsor Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform. Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

When engaging with bottoms up sales models, where does Paul identify the tipping points of going from bottoms up to top down? * Is there hiring decisions? But they have much less mental energy than they’ve ever had to actually engage in those changes that they’re considering. Is it product decisions?

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Just as important as a definition of what a digital experience platform is what it’s not. By definition, it’s software that allows you to create, manage, and share your brand’s content. How is it different from WEM, or web engagement management? Have you interacted with an engaging digital experience platform recently?

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. Definitely, one year is the minimum.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The bar is definitely higher, but I don’t think that it has to be. So one qualitative is when the customers love the product and the metrics for measure the love is phenomenal engagement, great retention, let them expand dynamics into the customers, growth led by expansion MRR more than the new business MRR, and ideally negative share.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Planning for long-term means a lot of implications for how employees live and work, how they work together, and engagement and collaboration is now a preference. One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? Aaron Levie: That shift is definitely starting.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

Al Ries definition: " Positioning is not what you do to the product; it’s what you do to the mind of the prospect. 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. What is positioning? Why should I give a damn?

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Vlad : Definitely technologist. That means lots and lots of hiring and I don’t want to say firing, we did fire anyone, but people get reshuffled, you know? Jonathan : Did you have to do any sort of big steps hiring wise? Vlad : Well we did have to hire a new CFO. That’s like who you’re hiring too. We did not.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

Simmone talks about her experience building Gilt City and Kidpass as a woman of color and how she advises companies to build diversity and inclusion into their hiring practices and sales teams. How to build diversity into your hiring practices. They are the leading sales engagement platform. What You’ll Learn.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The challenge in each case is the same—the company is hiring you at a lower level of commitment than a full-time hire, usually with the expectation that they will see some ROI relatively quickly. Full-time Head of Marketing I’ve been hired to lead marketing teams at four companies in a full-time capacity now.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Speaking your customers’ language will accelerate your sales and make your brand more engaging. We tend to believe that the technical aspects of our product are the most important differentiator because that’s what our CTO says. It’s harder to identify your buyer persona and the main jobs they hire you to do (JTBD theory).

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Speaking your customers’ language will accelerate your sales and make your brand more engaging. We tend to believe that the technical aspects of our product are the most important differentiator because that’s what our CTO says. It’s harder to identify your buyer persona and the main jobs they hire you to do (JTBD theory).

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. I was like, “Yeah, I was definitely thinking about emailing someone and saying, “Let’s put in on the roadmap for next year.””

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. I think when you go six months behind the frontier, or definitely one year, it’s brutal.

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