SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

At Saastr Annual, we hosted an Enterprise panel of AI leaders to share their experience and knowledge to help others understand how big companies think about and leverage AI. While the first generation of Generative AI is great, it’s not quite ready to solve Enterprise problems. What Are Enterprises Most Excited About Using AI For?

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2021

In the past, we’ve touched on several different ideas to help you scale, to do Even Better: Imagine capital doesn’t matter. A new edition, new services, an outbound sales team, an account management / upsell team. A new edition, new services, an outbound sales team, an account management / upsell team.

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

We do that with a combination of industry-leading content and community connections. This led to our first meet-ups in 2013 and 2014, the first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , the industry’s leading podcast in 2016, the first SaaS founder coworking space in 2017, and SaaStr Pro , the first learning management system for SaaS founders in 2018.

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

Startups come in all shapes and sizes on various stages of a timeline, yet it’s not surprising how many have the same questions and concerns about how to scale from x to y to z, the right time to hire and fire, and how to keep a team motivated during hard times. Q: Where Should SDRs Report — Marketing or Sales?

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

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. There are rules in starting an enterprise software company. This is the revenue growth for HubSpot leading up to the IPO. A SaaStr Classic!! million in 2013 to $115.9

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

There was also a highly efficient inbound sales model. In fact, there is currently no field sales organization! Building Customer-Centric Products : “These days, products have to provide value to customers within 15 minutes of starting to use the product even for enterprise software. That’s the benchmark we are looking for.”.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

The panelists offer their insights, which at times conflict with the viewpoints of other panelists, on hiring a cohesive team that can really scale the business. As the evolution of the company, as we started moving up market, started selling to enterprises, it was, “OK. We got the guy who ran enterprise sales at Rackspace.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Summit: Enterprise. This episode is an excerpt from Jason and Loren’s session at SaaStr Summit: Enterprise. Jay Snyder: Yeah.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. More sales meetings, start creating better sequences faster, go to go.regie.io

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich, Developer Success Manager Betsy Calender, and VP of Developer Experience Zeno Rocha share how to price your product for developers, how to market it to developers, how to how to support them as they scale and use the products. Bottom-up sales. Doing Business with Developers. Developers hate opaque pricing.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. It’s changing the landscape for large enterprise that you are very familiar with. And the same customer challenges that we were being presented, which was: How do you scale? Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And as nice as verbal assurances and a handshake are, as you grow and try to sign with more established, enterprise-level companies, you’ll find yourself more and more having to provide proofs of compliance before closing the deal: The shift to the cloud, more and more data breaches – it really put a magnifying glass on third-party risk.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR. So number six, thinking you’re getting away with under investing in management, up scaling in HR. ” You can invest in managerial talent along the way, and it scales the company.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

From Freemium to Product Qualified Leads and Product Led Growth. Tips on Enterprise Pricing. New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial? The State of SaaS Sales in a COVID-19 World. Cashing in on the Right Model.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. en you start saying, scaling and what does that even mean? Jonathan : Oh wow. Is that the point wh.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When a company is moving from the startup to the scale-up phase, there is the potential for productivity practices to be lost along the wayside. Dee: And you’ve worked in the industry for more than 22 years, so you have an incredible insight into the expansion of cloud networks, enterprise and data center technologies.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. And I’m curious, at this point you’re really one of the leading figures. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As we scale, we’re working with larger mid-market and enterprise customers with more complex needs and specifications. The overlap and synergies between these teams means we can use automation to efficiently solve problems at scale while remaining lean. . Evolving security landscape.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Summit: Enterprise. This episode is an excerpt from Jason and Loren’s session at SaaStr Summit: Enterprise. Justin Bedecarre: And then another client of ours is an international company that has decided that they truly want to scale up in San Francisco.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

The thing about growing fast, you always think about how to get more customers, more prospects. And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. Not only for the product side, but for the sales and marketing side. We had the first sales person. Eric Yuan: Yeah.

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Experience is kind of the holy grail when it comes to customer interaction, from marketing and sales to customer service and brand loyalty. Is it something we just have to continually improve and build on as new opportunities roll out? Do I need to bring data from sales, inventory, and other departments into my marketing platform?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to Sales Hacker Podcast. We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings. We’re on iTunes. The result?

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. The good news is that today’s marketers can similarly take advantage of AI-powered recommendation engines on a more affordable scale. Yosem Reichert-Sweet, CTO, Unbounce. What can you do?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Simmone Taitt , CEO of HeartSpace Consulting , and a longtime sales leader and consultant in the New York community. How intuition and heart can be built into a sales organization. Why leading with your heart will help build a great company. We’re on iTunes.

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Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Frontegg provides a set of pre-built, essential SaaS product capabilities that easily integrate within any new or existing SaaS application. As a result, Frontegg’s “SaaS Essentials” as a Service platform empowers organizations of all sizes to accelerate the delivery and the on-going enhancements of enterprise-grade SaaS applications.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Angus Davis , VC and Partner at Foundation Capital. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Sam Jacobs: Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. We’re on iTunes.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2020

Wrong: “The Office of the CIO in IT organizations in F5000 enterprises around the world.” Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., Big successful enterprise software companies have definitionally employed a lot of people. Be realistic about this.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As CTO of OpenAI, Mira Murati oversaw the development and release of GPT-4 and ChatGPT. 0:00] Mira’s background [4:32] Math, physics, and AI [7:07] Natural language interfaces [10:28] OpenAI Roadmap [17:24] Scaling Laws [20:25] One model to rule them all? Sometimes you sleep and you wake up and you have a new idea.

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Scytale

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Streamlining the Sales Process: Ever been knee-deep in contract negotiations when the client suddenly asks, “Are you SOC 2 certified?” On the flip side, being SOC 2 type II certified can speed up the sales cycle by removing one major hurdle right from the beginning. Uh-oh, now what? For some, that’s an instant deal-breaker.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 23, 2022

Advances in automation and new engineering techniques are enabling faster development cycles, raising expectations for ROI from the R&D function. A view of new revenue for every R&D dollar invested further reinforced the correlation of R&D investment to growth. . R&D Spend as a % of Revenue Benchmarks. Financial KPIs.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

If you're primarily targeting very large enterprise companies, it's very hard usually to use PLG as the only way to sell to those companies. Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. That is a natural hurdle for PLG motion.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

If you missed episode 125, check it out here: The Power of Authenticity and Emotional Intelligence in Sales with Mykal White. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Why outbound prospecting is difficult [11:45]. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings. More sales meetings. We’re on iTunes. The result?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Zvi Guterman , founder and CEO of CloudShare. On this episode, he discusses raising (or not raising) capital, customer centricity, and he also gives a few tips to sales people looking to gain the attention of the C-suite. Advice to sales people trying to reach the C-suite.

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