SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

You have to be careful to pair that with someone strong to manage the relationship, that has more time and that also can be trusted. As a founder, you’ll just run out of time to properly manage key customers and partners yourself. Hire that person, and make sure they are someone the top customers can really trust and count on.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

analyzing how often Directors and Executives are involved in the sales process. Scott pulled the research from Chorus, which reported that over five weeks (~May-June 2020), 88% more directors have been joining calls and 72% more executives are joining sales calls on the sell side. Playing the right roles.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 17, 2020

When you ask average questions, you get average hires. If a potential senior hire has gotten so far as to talk with the CEO , she’s probably someone the company wants. Related: Are You Hiring for Culture Fit or Culture Add? For example, I met with a new client recently, the CTO of a fin-tech startup.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. They wanted to sell the Amplitude product, I forget, to sales or somebody else, and that was their mistake. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. And the learning is sell two things to buyers.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Which is why you should sign up for the 2 for 1 Insider Sale and get two people for the price of one. That’s the advice, Petri Hollmén picked up on the more technical side of things from the opening session on Day 2 with Cal Henderson, CTO of Slack. Hire Game Changers to Propel Growth. Covering all ground won’t be easy.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? How can startups clearly and articulately present their plans for security, compliance and change management? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Why is this? What are the drivers of its death?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Maggie Hott , Director of Sales at Webflow. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scalable sales team from the ground up. Scaling a sales team is not for the faint of heart – for one, it’s not even that much about selling.

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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.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2020

Unlike those systems, our product integrates and leverages Excel as part of the solution; we use Excel formula language, Excel formatting conventions, and provide an Excel add-in interface that preserves and leverages your existing Excel knowledge. That takes a lot of hiring and on-boarding risk off the table.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

We don’t necessarily think it affects our sales, but it definitely impacts overall customer satisfaction. . Of course, our team is involved to an extent, and we have an external part-time moderator for support. Our support team is always present in the group, ready to answer any questions our users may have.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Client Training (facilitating educational programs) in sales and trading to support knowledge and advocacy of the MediaMath platform. Serve as senior-level advocate for all customer issues and provide ongoing management to ensure timely resolution. Present and review quarterly / monthly meetings.

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

Startups come in all shapes and sizes on various stages of a timeline, yet it’s not surprising how many have the same questions and concerns about how to scale from x to y to z, the right time to hire and fire, and how to keep a team motivated during hard times. Q: Where Should SDRs Report — Marketing or Sales?

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

And the same customer challenges that we were being presented, which was: How do you scale? And what challenge that presented to us was how do we do that quickly. But they are actually accompanying us in the sales cycle and it’s certainly something that’s accelerated our time-to-market but also our success as well.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support. How does the move to enterprise fundamentally impact the sales team? How does the structure of the sales team change with the move? Where do many go wrong? Listen on Spotify.

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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

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. That’s all written on our platform.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

This video training was originally presented at the 2019 Sales Hacker Success Summit. How to overcome limited sales support. How to overcome limited sales support (06:15). ? All right guys, welcome to the Sales Hacker’s Success Summit presentation, How To Close The Enterprise When You Are Just A Startup.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Immediately told them to hire 50 reps in a different city, in a different city, and they did. The CEO was deferential because that was 10 times what he’d ever raised before, and did all of it.

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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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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing in a Time of Uncertainty. The State of SaaS Sales in a COVID-19 World. The core features of a product should present high value and when those features are progressively unlocked with something like tiered pricing, you increase the likelihood someone will pay. 20 Pricing Page Best Practices That Will Increase Your Sales.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

But also, as a sole founder, you also can make a decision in a very timely manner. Not only for the product side, but for the sales and marketing side. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. Speed is everything. Eric Yuan: Yep.

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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. Sales enablement is easy. Oh, and do all of this with less time. More sales meetings, more money. More sales meetings, more money. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. year sales cycles. You have to learn things like how do I scale my sales force? It’s an area that doesn’t get enough focus. I’m not kidding.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. I actually just got off the boat, Nick, and scurried up to make sure that I was ready to go for the presentation. One, it starts high up in the sales process, right? Bernadette Nixon. Jay Snyder.

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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. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. Harry Stebbings.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I think it’s more around a consciousness of what you know, or what you may not know, and then hiring around it to become successful. ” I’m kind of like, “Even if you make one or two sales in the next couple of months, with your VP sales, it’s going to take you three months to go and hire.”

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? Justin Bedecarre: Well, that is the presentation for today. Justin Bedecarre. Aaron Levie.

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Experience is kind of the holy grail when it comes to customer interaction, from marketing and sales to customer service and brand loyalty. It’s often an open-source platform that allows API integrations from various departments, such as sales, to deliver super personal experiences to users.

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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? * If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Is there hiring decisions? How will the structure of orgs change around them?

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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. How to build diversity into your hiring practices. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Jonathan : And when you were articulating this message, tell me at what point did you feel comfortable presenting this to investors? And then the sale will commence as far as the people and this was, we were multiple millions of dollars of revenue until I took the first call. Vlad : Well we did have to hire a new CFO.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. In 2002, Aaron Ross's Predictable Revenue playbook from his time at Salesforce was published. It shared the repeatable process to operationalize sales, particularly sales development. It made sense then.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

If you want to learn more before getting the book then watch her presentation here on Youtube. It’s the underpinning of your go-to-market strategy and impacts everything from marketing to sales, to customer success and the product itself. Pricing as part of positioning The article also covers notes on how they priced the software.

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