OpenView Labs

APRIL 29, 2021

Recruiting top talent is the common denominator across all scaling startups. Nine out of 10 founders and CEOs I connect with are involved in recruiting on a weekly, if not daily, basis. Many of them are learning on the fly and trying to juggle being CEO and Chief People Officer/Lead Recruiter/Brand Evangelist all at once.

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SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2023

Recruit diverse leaders The goal of hiring a revenue leader is to put gasoline on finding product market fit success. How they conduct themselves, engage, market the brand, and set a tone, reflect on the brand. For a team of dozen people, mostly concentrated on product and engineering, they all had their hands full with customer calls.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This could mean speaking engagements, guest posts, or industry panels. Use analytics to continuously monitor engagement, identify friction points, and optimize each touchpoint to reinforce customer confidence. Previously, he founded TalentBin, a talent search engine and recruiting CRM that was acquired by Monster Worldwide in 2014.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

379: From how many reps to hire, to compensation models, here are the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales teams and how to avoid them. Announcer: In today’s SaaStr Insider, SaaStr CEO and founder, Jason Lemkin, shared the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales team.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

The team is typically highly cross-functional, working together with sales, product, engineering, and marketing, and the goal is to help the other teams make better decisions through data and financial modeling. This role can be recruited through headhunters or your network.

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Incredo

MARCH 11, 2020

Publish Helpful Content Content is still king – in the eyes of search engines and people equally. People will trust your organization more if it publishes genuinely helpful content on a regular basis. Your content is a reflection of your association’s knowledge and collective experience of its management.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2024

1: How Sales and Marketing Have Shifted Since 2020 Expectations and the types of people working in SaaS have shifted over the past few years, and much more in sales, marketing, and customer success. . #1: A senior engineer posted on LinkedIn that they worked at Spotify for four years and quit on the spot. I’m out of here.”

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on customer success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide. 3: Provide an engaging overview. Conduct training and workshops for clients.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

Whether youre a startup , an SMB , or a global enterprise , the right ATS can streamline your recruitment process, save time, and help attract top talent in a competitive market. Modern ATS software automates tedious tasks like job posting, resume screening, and interview scheduling, freeing HR teams to focus on engaging with candidates.

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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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Neil Patel

APRIL 13, 2021

For sales-based companies, influencer marketing could be a promising alternative. Search engines: Google is a great way to find competitors and identify which influencers they use for their campaigns. You can work with multiple influencers across the platform, and you can recruit more talent as you go. The upshot?

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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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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The end-of-year holidays offer lots of opportunities for SaaS and software companies to boost sales and brand recognition. If your internal marketing team is planning a 25% discount on your product during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but your affiliate audience is told to promote a 20% discount, you could be missing out on tons of sales.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

And can you talk a little bit about touching on the hiring point, because you did say that you focused a lot on talent, and recruiting. And we had a lot of experience with payments, and engineering, but with U.S. It was basically engineering and design. Our head of sales, he was probably 10th, or 11th, or something like that.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. Patrick Arippol kickstarted his professional path with an engineering degree, followed by an MBA from Stanford. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2024

In the competitive arena of B2B sales, mastering the art of prospecting is key to ensuring a healthy sales pipeline, daily demos booked, and hitting your sales quota. Fortunately for you, we’ve sifted through the clutter and done all the legwork to bring you the top 10 sales prospecting tools. Wiza reviews 4.5/5

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I started a software company in college to make it easy to update websites called Content Management Software Now, and I had this idea for Pardot, I wanted to make it easy for marketers to run campaigns online and measure their results. SalesLoft, why was that Pardot, I tried to recruit this guy, Kyle Porter, to come run sales at Pardot.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 9, 2021

With these challenges in mind – and after collecting tons of feedback and reviewing engagement scores from those initial groups of new hires – we had to take a pause to plan and iterate our experience. Blended learning strikes the right balance by offering a variety of ways to engage with the content. . They are: .

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 13, 2024

Passionate about customer engagement, her leadership has contributed to Iterable’s success in helping brands like Redfin, Priceline, and Volvo deliver individualized, harmonized and dynamic communications at scale. The importance of post-sale marketing and customer lifecycle management. Brought to you by IPS.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 31, 2021

Diversifying your web traffic can also be helpful in cases where there’s little scope for search engine optimization (for example, podcasts). Would you immediately talk sales in their face? I wrote a detailed guide to increasing social media followers and boosting engagement. How much traffic could you drive to your website!

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

A big part of why we are seeing this growth is that our customers have found that when they use Intercom to engage their website visitors, conversion rates and sales increase by more than 80%! Our SF Product team is led by Ann Montgomery, leading product management & design, and Louis Bennett, leading engineering.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Hakim Myers , Business Recruiter at Nextdoor , where he recruits for people, finance, and legal functions for startups. Join us for a revealing conversation on sales and talent from the perspective of a recruiter in an executive search firm. powered by Sounder.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

At Sales Hacker, our Community Leaders help build relationships with our members. Add them to your network and give them a warm welcome, because you’ll be seeing them all over Sales Hacker in the coming months! WHY SALES HACKER? Sales Hacker provides a network of sales professionals dedicated to helping others in similar roles.

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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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Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2022

Celine, who transitioned from agency sales to SaaS, is the Vice President of Boardable. Celine brings more than twenty-five years of experience to Boardable, which is a platform that allows board members to engage easily. Join us for a great conversation about transitioning in sales and technology selling. powered by Sounder.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 1, 2013

Startup teams collaborate in product and engineering conversations, in general management, and in recruiting. Externally, startups sell customers using marketing and sales. Violating expectations can be used as a sales technique to change a customer’s frame of mind when evaluating different products.

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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. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk. The exchange of value.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Buffer: Social media management for creators and small businesses A social media management tool is central to any social strategy. It helps you manage your online presence so you can post consistently and on a schedule you choose — which can help improve engagement. to maintain a consistent posting schedule.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 1, 2015

As a seed stage company grows, hires a sales team and deploys the product to more customers, the signs of customer pull evolve. Product engagement remains high. The company transitions from pilots with friendly customers to product sales. As a result of these fast sales cycles , sales people exceed their quotas substantially.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Sales Hacker founder and VP of Marketing at Outreach , Max Altschuler. If you missed episode 47, check it out here: PODCAST 47: Key Qualities of great Sales Leadership w/ Dan Fougere. How to solve business problems using reverse engineering. What You’ll Learn.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 25, 2015

Here’s my stab at that list: CRM, Marketing Automation, ERP, Expense Management, Analytics, Email, Collaboration, Document Storage, Payroll, HRIS, ATS, IaaS, Customer Support, Recruiting. Sales teams, always looking for an edge, also belong to the early adopter segment and buy CRM and online meetings software.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2021

Anne’s journey began with a love of technology and problem solving, which led to an internship with IBM in Manhattan working with a systems engineer. How do you get design to work with sales, or engineering to work with customer success? It’s a universal challenge that can make or break an organization.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Recruiters are still reporting it as a challenging time to fill roles, with both employers and candidates being more gun shy than previously. We will be hosting monthly digital events, kicking off the series with none other than Lars Nilsson who coined the phrase account-based sales development himself. That’s it, that’s all.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

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Buffer Resources

MARCH 7, 2024

Higher engagement with the insights Repurposing reports into formats more conducive to social media engagement, such as short-form videos, polls, and live events, can lead to higher engagement rates.   “We engaged thought leaders and influencers to be a part of the report and the launch event.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

They started in the point of sale market, and then as the company scaled, they rolled out new value props and modules for payroll, or Toast capital, or ways to manage your employee base. This is really founder-led sales. Byron gave a great example with Toast, one of my favorite portfolio companies. That’s your CAC.

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