SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time? What does one look for in their first sales hire? So I was doing environmental consulting. We were hired into the same role, same start date, competed head to head. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

How does Yousuf advise CIOs to approach pricing strategy when pitching CIOs? What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? But it also means that SaaS has had a much bigger impact in the growth of businesses and in the ability for companies to execute a great go-to market strategy.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 5, 2023

Therefore, investing in robust cybersecurity measures is essential to safeguard against these threats. The Role of Fractional CTO in Enhancing Cybersecurity A Fractional CTO can provide invaluable expertise and guidance in strengthening an insurance company's cybersecurity defenses.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 16, 2022

Business consultants Human resource Consultants Lawyers Accountants. QBRs ensure that companies deliver customer outcomes in a timely manner by encouraging meetings and conversations. You can customize your approach and strategy with customers. When these goals are known, it is much easier to chalk out an action strategy.

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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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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Know the best strategies to enhance your SaaS career Make use of key insights from leaders, companies, and communities Engineer your SaaS marketing strategy based on their expertise. Aaron Levie is the Chief Executive Officer, co-founder, and Chairman at Box. His strategies and tips in SaaS have helped many users.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

First strategy here is to build the relationship on a human level , and I think one element of that is you’ve got to get in person. This is a relationship worth investing in. If you are trying to overcome no brand and market, you can’t ask somebody for a three year contract. I see this all the time.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

While most of us assume M&A happens late stage, Teddie gives a list of reasons why you should use M&A in your growth strategy. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. We invest mainly in the growth stage, so think series B, series C, but also somethings earlier as well as some later stage buyouts.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Tomasz Tunguz: Well, there’s two parts to the question. Excited to be back emceeing.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The first sponsor is Sapper Consulting. Oh, and do all of this with less time. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

And many CEOs simply fail to understand the nuances of the role and the future building benefits of marketing investments made in areas like “brand” where the return on investment is not immediately recognizable on the balance sheet. The process of building trust in a consulting capacity really focuses on the sales process.

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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. And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. He was investing in internet companies. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time.

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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 to build diversity into your hiring practices. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s part of everyone’s DNA, and I do recognize that.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. Obviously, I can’t imagine a chief executive not having loss of sleep over building a management team. Mallun : Sure.

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

Working in-house for startups is often ‘a one man job’ as you do everything: from general comms strategy to media placements and everything in between (social media, product descriptions, attending / organising events, etc.). It takes time to kick in, and it is fragile. How to create a PR strategy and set a budget for it?

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