SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

Product-Market Fit: There’s no shortcut –– finding the perfect target will always take time and hard work to get right. Finding the product-market fit is still the same iterative process. Recruitment: Getting the right talent onboard is a critical step. In fact, you need both to optimally grow your sales efforts.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

I see this all the time in marketing hires that come out of non-demand gen roles. Sometimes a marketing lead with a corporate marketing or even product marketing background actually signs up for a lead or other commit. A head of sales that doesn’t recruit at least one strong rep in the first 90 days.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Head of Sales. Head of Marketing. billion in 2012.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Likewise, the new products you launch do not determine your success. Instead, how you launch them into the market is a huge factor in success. Today, we’re diving straight into the details with product marketing leaders. Use timing as a forcing function. Frame solutions, rather than features alone. Show, don’t tell.

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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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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Recruiting is easier, but the things that don’t change are customers don’t care.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2023

2 “Give the VP of Sales more time.” You can’t always expect a great VP of Sales to double sales in 30-60-90 days. But you have to see progress in one sales cycle. If, in one sales cycle, things aren’t improving on several core metrics, they never will. The best VPs of Sales hit the ground running.

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SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2020

That was the most over the top entrance that the sales leader for a company that moves boxes around the world has ever gotten. So we did about 442 million in sales last year. I think the enterprise value of it is maybe $300 million. The top 25 freight forwarders combined to do 100 billion a year in sales.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Nothing matters but recruiting and using your personal network. Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

Sales customer insights. Let’s drill down into the market and customer insights that can really add value for salespeople, under the following sections: Qualifying characteristics: Things to look for in an organization that make it a good target. But what are these insights that will transform the conversations salespeople have?

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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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Kellblog

JULY 17, 2022

Create a product. Get product-market fit (PMF), i.e., determine some problem you solve for some person with some product. Go sell some software to prove there’s a market. While both are often quite important for culture-building and recruiting, for customer buying decisions, well, not so much.

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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? Does one have to move to enterprise? Does one have to expand the product line to retain customers? How does your customer success and customer support functions change with the move to enterprise? How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As for Ryan, prior to G2 he was Senior Director of Global Marketing at Hubspot where among many other achievements, he scaled HubSpot’s marketing-generated sales revenue by 330% year-over-year. And so when I then joined Salesforce, Salesforce is very much enterprise B2B marketing. It works really well.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Product-market fit has been really important. I remember talking to Belgium investors at the time and everybody said, look, enterprise software is dead, there’s no opportunity through investment. Felix : There’s no way to be successful with enterprise software. That’s when we found product market fit.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform. I spoke to Ryan about how they created a new enterprise ops category: LearnOps.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

* How does Andrew advise founders on the question of whether to start in enterprise or SMB? How does the founder know when is the right time to start moving to enterprise? How does the product and what you invest in proactively need to change as you move into enterprise? What are the benefits of starting in SMB?

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The exciting thing about prototypes is that large-scale experiments can be built through open-source projects , which companies like Netflix and Linkedin will do as a strategic way of recruiting top talent. . Why startup founders should treat fundraising like a sales funnel. Milestone: First traction and product-market fit .

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We found out that there is a lot of content surrounding product-market fit, there is also a lot of content around a company doing an IPO and the founder reflecting on the journey. We tried to come up with a framework where we set marketing, sales and finance which we call heavy burdens of the company.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. Q: Should Product Marketing Work for Product or Marketing?

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 10, 2019

ReinventGrowth hosts a webinar in just one week’s time, with Gainsight VP of Product Growth Travis Kaufman. It’s called Product-Led Onboarding for the Enterprise. And ReinventGrowth's Product-Led Growth Lead and Founder Despina Exadaktylou has the data to prove its effectiveness. "A A new kind of onboarding.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. Talkdesk is a cloud call center platform for enterprise companies. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales. And then on competencies.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Most people know the YC Accelerator, but YC actually has a number of programs now, including Amook, the Accelerator, a Series A program to help companies raise Series A, and a growth program to help companies expand post product market fit. Sometimes we call ourselves experts in failure. Like any good list, I have a top ten list.

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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. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Kyle made his way into the world of SaaS and sales and came to be Head of Sales at one of the fastest-growing companies in Figma. What worked?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? Bob Moore: And I was t nerdy engineer in college, so getting the opportunity to have to pitch, it’s really a sales job at the end of the day. Or hey, we missed our sales numbers last quarter, it’s got to be a management issue.

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SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2023

The company helps enterprises internationally with contextual and actionable insights to secure their cloud infrastructure. Recruit diverse leaders The goal of hiring a revenue leader is to put gasoline on finding product market fit success. Prioritize demand discovery Demand is a strong indicator of product market fit.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A varied set of remote-first employees should be recruited, trained, and given opportunity for ongoing growth and professional development. developing your product expertise and improving your customer education methods. developing your product expertise and improving your customer education methods.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It’s hard to gauge that early on because recruiting your first 5-10 hires inherently means leaning on your network, so the sample size is relatively small,” she continues. If you start to just name-drop a ton of investors, it can come off as more sales-y than an indication of how much interest there is for the deal.” . The problem?

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Today, Zuora's Amy Konary creates a world in which subscribers are at the core, because she knows success is no longer measured simply by products sold. Plus, Recurly raises dough, Medium talks product marketing, and Beyond Pricing helps the common folk make a buck. Or channeling market insights back to impact product roadmap.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Collaborate with Sales on large-scale enterprise renewals in your portfolio. Collaborate with the Product team on how to improve the product to meet customer needs. Collaborate with Sales to identify and develop upsell and cross-sell opportunities. Apply here: [link].

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 10, 2019

Inner Workings of Product Management at Product Led Growth Companies. At product led growth (PLG) companies like Atlassian and Intercom, product management may look very different from a ‘traditional’ SaaS company. PLG and Product Management: Tips from Sendgrid’s VP of Product.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Jess Hun t , Head of Global Marketing, Sales & Strategy for Axiom about creating a revenue model. How to develop a sophisticated sales recruiting engine. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. 3) A career in sales and marketing [3:30].

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In this Ask Me Anything Part 1, Lemkin answers the questions: Many VCs talk about funding, yet you’re so focused on sales. Question #1: Why Are You So Focused On Sales When Other VCs Are Focused On Funding? That VP of Sales came out of Salesforce. Lemkin’s Hail Mary was hiring Brendon Cassidy when that first VP of Sales quit.

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