OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

This is why, even for early-stage startups, the sooner you hire your first product person, the better. But when, exactly, should you make that hire? Who should you hire? On a recent episode of the BUILD Podcast , Blake Bartlett spoke with Nikita Miller about best practices for building an early-stage product team.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 3, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Rick Kelley is the former VP of Metas Global Business Group, where he led a $10B+ revenue organization and played a pivotal role in building out Metas go-to-market teams across North America and EMEA.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

Can you ever be sure you’re hiring the right salesperson? When I first wrote this article, we were in a very different place, with unemployment at an all-time low and sales hiring a top priority. That secret weapon is a hiring scorecard. Fortunately, my client used their hiring scorecard to sidestep a costly mis-hire.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers).

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

As they scaled, they radically changed how they did sales. They moved to a more traditional SaaS inside sales model, and they started shipping out these hardware devices, and only 30% to 40% of the customers would end up paying for them. And we’re about to add basically a team collaboration tier on top of the product.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2021

Follow this up by building your team and finding a location if you’re opening a physical store. Finally, focus your efforts on generating more sales and growing your business, which is also what you’ll find yourself doing for most of your career. After all, your customers would prefer more of a good thing and less of a bad thing.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

And it’s not just for CROs; if you’re a marketer, SDR, sales rep, manager, VP, or CRO, this one’s for you. Engagement : The process (or rather processes) that result in a qualified sales pipeline. Volunteer a few marketers or sales reps to move through each step and test your processes rigorously.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 27, 2019

But RevOps is a relatively new role in the sales environment, so there’s a lot of confusion about what it is and how it’s different from Sales Ops. In this post, I’ll explain what RevOps is, why it is suddenly so popular, and how it will impact the future of sales. or How is it different from Sales Ops? What is RevOps?

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

APRIL 10, 2017

Sales enablement is a rapidly emerging, but immature function. Many companies are investing in the creation of sales enablement teams, but as they’re so new, there’s a distinct lack of thought leadership, standardised measurement and best practices available. Defining sales enablement How we define sales enablement matters.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Documentation, more often than not, is an afterthought for many SaaS businesses. Building a world-class sales team. Building a world-class sales team. Putting together a comprehensive library of documentation. Why is good documentation so critical? For developer-focused products (i.e.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 3, 2022

Content is the cornerstone of sales enablement, but creating it is a massive headache. Those are resources that most sales teams do not have, and resources that most marketing teams need to protect. What is Agile sales enablement? There is a pressure on teams to move quickly and scale early.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. Hire a consultant, hands down. In a nutshell, they can give you expert opinions, analysis, and recommendations that can help ensure a more objective-based approach to grow your business and maximize sales – all at the same time.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. But even back then, I heard whispers in the halls of how great a manager Claire was. Her team loved working for her. If not, you can send me bad pictures of dachshunds.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In the world of sales, an SDR is a foundational role that offers a kind of sanity check for aspiring salespeople to see if they have what it takes to make it in a high-stakes sales environment. But for those who don’t necessarily aspire to become account executives, their professional futures may seem murky and unclear.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 28, 2019

To address the disparity between men and women in sales, a good start is to change your hiring practices , and update your company policies. After hiring, the real work begins. Really the percentage should be 100% for both genders, but it’s telling that female sales reps feel short-changed on training more often than men do.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Want to learn more?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

And what better way to develop this other than enlisting the help of an expert digital strategy consultant who can do a broad set of activities, each of which is directed towards helping you meet your goals. And hiring a consultant will make sure you‘re taking advantage of everything that’s out there and reaping the profits.

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FastSpring

APRIL 24, 2025

Since 2010, she’s been leading teams, building websites, web applications for nonprofits, K through 12, higher education, government, businesses of all sizes. And so I think there are a lot of self-taught developers that just don’t know. And I’m giving that a bad description.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. If you’ve ever applied for a mortgage, there’s 50 to 70 pages of documentation per mortgage. Enter the platform company.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In fact, with so many variables involved in a deal—from unique buyer objectives, to your timing in a deal relative to your competitors— building playbooks for your sales teams is more like writing a “ Choose Your Own Adventure ” novel. In sales, it’s not much different. No guarantees there.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2022

Celine, who transitioned from agency sales to SaaS, is the Vice President of Boardable. Join us for a great conversation about transitioning in sales and technology selling. Sometimes you have to take one step back to go two steps forward in sales. Sales is all about building internal relationships. powered by Sounder.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. And of course, a strong sales comp plan needs to motivate reps to hit goals that grow the company while still maintaining a profit margin. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan. Keep it Simple.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2018

Where Dropbox went from there is well documented. Today he’s the founder and CEO at GrowthHackers , whose software, community and annual conference help teams work together to drive breakout growth results for “must have” products and services. Developing a growth culture at Dropbox. Sean: Airbnb’s metric is nights booked.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Average salary: $192,383/yr. Average salary: $151,254/yr. Average salary: $111,208/yr.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 15, 2019

Some of the most successful and influential SaaS companies include channel sales in their go-to-market strategy. For the uninitiated, channel sales refers to the process of partnering with third parties to get your product into the end user’s hands. Channel Sales versus Direct Sales – The Good and the Bad.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Paul: Yeah.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2020

That could be through freelancing, or by hiring another firm (like a call center) to handle segments of your business. Use outsourcing as a tool to drive sales and revenue. According to Wasp Barcode Technologies, the five biggest challenges facing small businesses center around employee management and profit.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 30, 2019

We work hard to span all areas of the pyramid, with smart feature prioritization, solid help center documentation, regular NPS surveys, and now, proactive customer success. Ingmar, our VP of Customer Success, and our support team cracked the code on first response time and measuring NPS. At what rate is the key account segment growing?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

While it’s likely that more realistic claims close fewer accounts, it pays off in customer retention. ML teams tend to invest a fair share of resources in research that never ships. The size of this, and the number of possible paragraphs of text that could be in my document is crazy high. ” Des Traynor: Yeah.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2021

You need to measure and repeat so you and your sales team only put effort into promising prospects abroad. Let’s explore the mathematical process the sales outsourcing team at Sales Force Europe takes both on behalf of our clients and in our own lead generation and international sales strategy.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. This is just as bad as not having a website in the first place. Most good support teams will even have full backups of your site that they can restore if worse comes to worst.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. David Schmaier: Sure.

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Teamgate

JULY 1, 2020

You’ve hired the best hands and have vetted the product as a standard and quality one in its niche. You have amazing content and all looked fine except the sales. The sales suck and it’s not promising. They have good content and good traffic but no conversion and sales. Imagine this. Let’s stop there.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 27, 2020

Whether you run a one-person sales enablement program or are part of a team, the sheer scope of the job can be overwhelming. Which is why we’ve put together this guide on sales enablement, focusing on the three primary parts of the job: strategy, execution, and governance. Sales enablement strategy. I hear you.

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