SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. Q: Should Product Marketing Work for Product or Marketing?

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Plus, the Product Marketing Alliance drops the Product Marketing Salary Survey. What about the ROI of spending time with your family, friends, or kids? That’s what David Apple—customer success and sales guru at Notion— is asking. How many CSMs should you hire? Product marketers: move west.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Lightspeed Partner, Anoushka Vaswani, is joined by Raj Sarkar, CMO at 1Password, Kim Walsh, SVP, Sales, Partnerships and Customer Success at Apollo.io, and Chris De Vylder, CRO at Sentry, to pass along key lessons from their growth journey. Then build your segmentation and sales processes around that. 20 million?

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. And so we actually had to make some major adjustments and look for an alternative way to deliver the software which clearly meant that we needed to move to the cloud full-time. Want to see more content like this session?

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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. Where does Erica often see founders make mistakes with this scaling? How does the move to enterprise fundamentally impact the sales team? Where do many go wrong?

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 4, 2021

To handle this evolving requirement, it is important to build a competent profile to initiate progress in product development. This is where companies need another C-level executive to facilitate business growth via products. What makes a chief product officer (CPO) different from a CTO or a VP in the product department.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

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. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He also founded SaaScribe to help founders, customer success teams , sales executives, marketing professionals, and growth hackers. Asia Orangio is a SaaS expert who helps SaaS companies and start-ups to craft a data driver strategy and implement award-winning marketing strategies to win the audience. Asia Orangio. Chris Orlob.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Or if you have products that require some configuration–think about Salesforce, Segment, things like that–someone needs to set it up. Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. Think Notion, Canva, Slack, all of those products.

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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.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. 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. That was the start of the Month of Scale. Travis Bryant : All right, let’s get started.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So we didn’t have product market fit for that. How did you think about, who do I want to target for that product given where we are now. So that’s where we found product market fit and product market fit is not binary, it’s more of like the stars align and you’re just like, Oh my God.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We focus on Series A, and we only make a small number of investments, probably four or five a year, precisely because like to work very closely with the companies that we invest into to really help you scale out of Europe. The seed money is to fund the product energy. Evgenia : Hi. My name is Evgenia. I work with Dawn Capital.

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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. Drift’s Dave Gerhardt presents three examples of how companies have successfully or unsuccessfully tied pricing to the value of their products features. Picking a Pricing Strategy for Your Product. Product Strategy for Scale: Pricing.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

What does really effective product marketing mean to Paul? When engaging with bottoms up sales models, where does Paul identify the tipping points of going from bottoms up to top down? * Is it product decisions? Is there hiring decisions? So product strategy decisions, vision documents.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

After Jebbit raised its Series B, Michael Marcus, VP of Customer Success (CS), sat down with his team to plan their scale-up operations. It’s not uncommon for early-stage teams to lean on CS to improve renewal rates and buy time for their software to catch up. “It Identify ideal customers and hone sales personas.

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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. I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level. And for good reason.

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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. We add human touches to as many things as possible, and then we innovate and listen to our employees, at scale, and the results, I think, speak for themselves.

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