Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 2, 2019

If you must choose a long term headquarters for your startup, call an executive recruiter who focuses in that city. VP Engineering, VP Product, VP Sales, VP Customer Success, VP Marketing, or VP Operations. After establishing product market fit, the startups grow their management team to scale.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

I see this all the time in marketing hires that come out of non-demand gen roles. Sometimes a marketing lead with a corporate marketing or even product marketing background actually signs up for a lead or other commit. A head of sales that doesn’t recruit at least one strong rep in the first 90 days.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Sales reps were hosting 4-6 calls daily but most of these calls were early demos or top-of-funnel discovery calls Sales was closing really small deals on one end while talking to really large companies with hundreds of thousands of people on the other. Define your ICP as early as you can and segment your sales team accordingly.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

UX Designer: Responsible for understanding the unique needs and requirements of SaaS users and designing the user interface and experience of SaaS products. Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

If you don’t think you need a great VP of Sales, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, and Engineering — then all that all that means is you’ve never worked with a great one. Here again, we have the same problems as the Customer Success lead hire, but worse. Or can you compromise?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2023

2 “Give the VP of Sales more time.” You can’t always expect a great VP of Sales to double sales in 30-60-90 days. But you have to see progress in one sales cycle. If, in one sales cycle, things aren’t improving on several core metrics, they never will. The best VPs of Sales hit the ground running.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I was the new Vice President of International Sales & Managing Director for a work management software company called Wrike. Starting Your International Sales Team. The key to starting an international sales team is having the right people in your landing team. A mercenary is driven by the sale.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

We hear a lot about equipping salespeople with customer insights to help them move from simple questioning to exploring challenges and discussing solutions with customers. Sales customer insights. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Nothing matters but recruiting and using your personal network. Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 4, 2022

Role: Customer Success Manager. As a Customer Success Manager, you will be involved in all aspects of account management, training, support, driving value, and being a trusted client partner by serving as the primary contact for the onboarding of new customers, the training of platform end users, as well as post-go-live support.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 6, 2022

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Chevin Fleet Solutions As a Director of Customer Success, you will optimize the CS mission, vision, and customer journey map with the VP of Customer Success & Support.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 12, 2022

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: New York, NY Hybrid Organization: Crealytics As a Director of Customer Success, you will develop strong connections with key client stakeholders to understand their needs and invest in their long-term success.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: United States (Remote) Organization: Apollo.io As a Director of Customer Success you’ll utilize automatic and calculated plays to manage a huge number of accounts. Set a date for newly assigned accounts’ onboarding.

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Technical Review Customer Success Development Team Review Systems Review 19

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Role: Head of Customer Experience Location: Remote, New York, NY, US Organization: Oden Technologies As a Head of Customer Experience, you will be hiring, leading and retaining customer success talent responsible for driving value delivery for the customers. Apply here: [link] Role: Sr.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 8, 2021

Elements of Successful Global Sales Expansion. “Be Successful global expansion is all about capitalizing on the right opportunity at the right time. So, let’s look at four keys to a successful global sales expansion. How much market share can you capture with your existing product and resources?

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 7, 2015

When a potential customer enters the consideration phase of the buyer journey, the marketing team transitions the lead to his sales account executive, who educates the customer from the consideration stage through purchase. First, the scope of marketing activities has broadened significantly.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 4, 2022

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: Remote, New York, NY, US Organization: Urbint As a Director of Customer Success, you will own the ultimate success of Urbint’s customer base; this includes seamless customer onboarding, project success, retention, and renewal.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 6, 2022

Role: Director of Customer Success. As a Director of Customer Success, you will be responsible for a team of passionate Customer Success professionals to achieve aggressive usage, adoption, and value realization targets while continually evolving Esper’s customer success methodology and deliverables.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does your customer success and customer support functions change with the move to enterprise? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. In terms of the product market fit falling apart. What are the biggest challenges in making this transition?

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Once a startup has found an initial product market fit, the business must evolve the way it models its growth. Before product market fit, a startup’s financial projections focus on costs. The Fundamental Unit of SaaS growth is the atomic go-to-market team of a startup.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Role: VP of Customer Success Location: Miami, FL, US Organization: AutoLeadStar As a VP of Customer Success, you will provide the front-line relationship for a select group of customers on an ongoing basis, and liaise with external and internal stakeholders as needed.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: SheerID As a Director of Customer Success, you will assess Customer Segmentation and make recommendations to ensure our customers’ success as well as the scalability of the customer success program at SheerID.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As for Ryan, prior to G2 he was Senior Director of Global Marketing at Hubspot where among many other achievements, he scaled HubSpot’s marketing-generated sales revenue by 330% year-over-year. Due to his success, Ryan has been named to Forbes’ List of World’s Most Influential CMOs. Which is a super useful tactic.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

While product development describes the process of creating the product itself (i.e. designing screens, writing code, running tests), product management is a broader concept that encompasses strategy , vision, and product-market fit. The final step is to launch your product.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

“You need at least a couple folks on the team who are experienced—not necessarily in the startup process, but with product management or even just business operations.”. Nikita’s Non-traditional Recruiting Approach. Create a Profile of Your Ideal Product Manager. Finding and Recruiting the Right Product People.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be. Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 16, 2021

Role: Customer Success Director Location: Waltham, MA, US Organization: Evolv Technology As a Customer Success Director, you will attract, hire, coach, and retain the highest quality customer success managers. to optimize feedback loops, issue resolution time, and customer escalations.

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We found out that there is a lot of content surrounding product-market fit, there is also a lot of content around a company doing an IPO and the founder reflecting on the journey. We tried to come up with a framework where we set marketing, sales and finance which we call heavy burdens of the company.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 17, 2021

Getting past the first stage of revenue growth and building an initial customer base is the easy part, but what happens when you hit a revenue plateau and can’t seem to take that next step? Working with plenty of second-stage startups at House of Revenue , we see common missed revenue growth opportunities limit success time and time again.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

TL;DR Product optimization is a process of improving aspects of the product, like the UI, in small increments to better satisfy user needs and deliver on business goals. The process of product optimization starts with goal setting , like improving usability. Use in-app messages to recruit participants for beta testing.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

Anthony Kennada , the Chief Marketing Officer at Gainsight , has helped navigate these tricky waters and put the Customer Success category on the map. Over the past four years, the number of Customer Success Managers (CSMs) in the industry has increased 400%. So too has Gainsight’s revenue. Who are you?

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SmartKarrot

JULY 27, 2021

Role: Head of Customer Success Location: San Francisco, CA, US Organization: Turn/River Capital As a Head of Customer Success, you will work with the leadership teams at 2 to 3 of the Turn/River portfolio companies to develop and implement retention and growth strategies and build operational best practices.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Customer Success Systems Review 10

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A product launch checklist is a list of tasks that you need to complete to successfully launch a new product or feature. Its main goal is to help you plan the efforts of the product, marketing, and sales team to maximize the impact of the launch. Why is a product launch checklist important?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The backup of 2020 was great, 2021 comes in and somehow we have 600 unicorns and everyone can burn 500 million a year or have huge sales teams. But the meta point is this, if you’re recruiting in 2024, beware of the “Lost Generation” candidate and persona you may come across. It’s part of the job now.

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