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Point Nine Land
OCTOBER 23, 2023
We recently hosted the Point Nine Founders Summit, featuring several panels and presentations from founders, CFOs, COOs, and sales execs on building early sales teams and hiring your first successful sales leaders. It helps keep the product team focused on customer feedback and providing value in exchange for revenue.
Chargify
APRIL 23, 2019
We found ourselves asking this question in a marketing meeting not too long ago. Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. You’ll also hear this stage called validation or the product/market fit stage. As those names indicate, in this phase a SaaS company’s focus should be on finding product/market fit.
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SaaStr
JUNE 1, 2021
In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. Otherwise, we are not doing our jobs, being in the marketing space.
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.
SaaStr
AUGUST 20, 2020
343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. Kyle was in charge of creating the Austin, Texas sales team @ Dropbox, what were some of his biggest lessons when it comes to moving sales outside of HQ? What worked? What did not work?
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. I started my training on the technical side, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or engineer, in particular, thinking I wanted to do research.
Kellblog
JULY 21, 2019
(And it makes you think twice when you’re on the other end of that phone call – was the show bad or did we execute it poorly?) . The difference between a great show and a bad show is often, in a word, execution. Think guerilla marketing. Stand in front of your booth, not in it. This effectively doubles your booth space.
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