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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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Yet they live on borrowed time. Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. When you optimize application logic with DBMS stored procedures (thanks, Oracle) or object-relational mapping. The inputs to learning are speeding up fast.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. I’m more of an infrastructure person. We were like 18 people at the time.

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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. Who is this person? Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

How to overcome no brand in market. How to overcome no credible timing event. How to overcome no brand in market (01:23). ? How to overcome no brand in market (01:23). First and foremost, overcoming no brand in market. How to overcome limited sales support. How to overcome limited examples. Introduction (00:00). ?

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” ” But being out here in California at the time I saw what Cisco was doing, what Dell was doing. Dell was selling configural PCs online. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem. You’re dot com.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Join this panel of investors from Connect Ventures, Blossom Capital, Dawn Capital, The Family, and Indico Partners as they provide an overview of the current investment landscape, and discuss whether the seed stage is emerging as the new Series A. We are a $50 million fund based in Lisbon, and we invest mainly in seed stage.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

291: Experimental marketing brings together the science and art of marketing, allowing for creativity that drives results. It’s an essential skill in the toolkit of the modern marketer, and one that’s easy to get started with, no matter your company scale. My advice is hire earlier rather than later.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. We invest in technology companies typically at the earliest stages.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Integrate email marketing (HubSpot). Integrate sales CRM (Salesforce).

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

It’s awesome to be back at SaaStr and be with all of you, and I’m really looking forward to this time we have together. My intention today is to share a little bit about our journey as a company, my personal journey as an entrepreneur, and give you something that you can take away to apply to your own businesses.

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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. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. You've probably become a worse person. You seem like a pretty good person. I feel like if you listen to us for 60 straight days, there's going to be a part of your brain that's good, but a part that gets corrupted slightly. Sam: Got it.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. You've probably become a worse person. You seem like a pretty good person. I feel like if you listen to us for 60 straight days, there's going to be a part of your brain that's good, but a part that gets corrupted slightly. Sam: Got it.

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