SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I will tell you how many COs I’ve talked to that say, “I’ll come to SaaStr, but I don’t want my series B or series C VC interviewing me,” which is sort of interesting. It sounds minor or technical, but if you want to due diligence on a human being, I get to do it a few 100 times a year.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

The importance of due diligence in company selection. Before we get to that interview, we want to thank our sponsors. Showpad’s all-in-one platform empowers sales and marketing teams to engage buyers through industry leading training and coaching software and innovative content and engagement solutions.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 11, 2019

And if you feel there is a lack of support or poor management, you might see the writing on the wall. If everyone on the sales team is missing quota, organizationally, you might be set up to fail. When it leaves both you and your sales team in a good place moving forward. Of course, it might not be you at all.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Sales development representative roles have grown 5.7X If you’re one of them, that’s both good news and bad: It means sales is growing, but you’re going to have a lot of competition getting started. You need to be on the defensive to make sure you don’t end up in a bad spot. That’s a lot of new people entering sales!

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Harry and Jason did a deep dive on this and so much more here: Intro (00:00:00) Seed investing is broken due to limited founders capable of triple-digit growth. This is due to several factors, including low-interest rates, the rise of venture capital , and the increasing popularity of angel investing. Is it sustainable?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

And this is why we decided to bring you a special episode about these latest developments in the world of AI, what they mean, and whether it’s time to apply it in real-life scenarios such as customer support. ” Similarly, I see managers on Twitter saying, “Oh, that’ll make performance review season so much easier.”

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. So we do that for customers, and that’s the team I’m working on.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Sam Jacobs: We’ve got an interview with a friend and a great entrepreneur, AJ Bruno, the CEO and co-founder of a company called QuotaPath. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. ” Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with AJ Bruno. Who influenced AJ [33:28].

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

350: Neha Sampat is the Founder and CEO @ Contentstack, a modern content management system bringing business and tech teams together to deliver personalised, omnichannel experiences. What are the counter-intuitive strategies Neha has found work when it comes to motivating remote teams? * Harry Stebbings. Neha Sampat. You should be.

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

I was planning to become a war correspondent, as was my role model and inspiration Anna Politkovskaya , but when the time came and I was invited to join a group of journalists from a very reputable broadcasting team to go to Palestine in 2010, when I was still at university, unfortunately, I had to reconsider my life choices.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

Post your team photos like Zappos. Bombarding your fans with 10 poor-quality updates in an hour. Spend some time reviewing and analyzing several posts on the same topic and share them with your audience on a consistent publishing schedule. Step #5: Choose a Prize and Develop a Promotion Strategy. You don’t want that.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Vikas Bhambri. I do want to break the interview today up into a couple of different parts really. This podcast is an excerpt of Eyal and Megan’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Eyal Manor.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2019

How can one prevent their customer support team from being a wall of protection for the product and eng team? Stripe recently announced their 5th office would be… “remote”, so how does Parker feel about the building of remote teams? What are the most important things when establishing your first remote team? Molly Ford.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 10, 2025

How to Work with VC Talent Teams ” → A tactical guide on how to engage with venture capital talent teams effectively (e.g., How to Work with VC Talent Teams ” → A tactical guide on how to engage with venture capital talent teams effectively (e.g., what to ask, how to prepare, what not to do).

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Now, without further ado, my interview with Bryan Caplin of Andela. We help technology leaders build distributed software engineering teams quickly and cost effectively so they can ship product faster. One, I felt like the team that I would be leaving behind was in a really good place. What a great interview with Bryan Caplin.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Does Dave agree that if the money is on the table founding teams should take it? What are the clear differences between a good book and a bad book? Who is involved? How long does it take?

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FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Fred Linfjärd of Planday about his experiences switching from a one-time billing model to subscriptions. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. And one of the things that often comes up in diligence when a business has a product like that.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2020

But Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. REGIE uses your targeting to inform your campaigns and decreases the time your team spends creating campaigns because that’s a pain in the ass. Outreach is great.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Having built numerous successful remote teams, what have been Peter’s biggest learnings in what it takes to successfully build remote teams? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Peter Yared. And so really it became a bad habit. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time?

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