OPEXEngine

JUNE 8, 2021

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Blake, a successful salesperson, visits the real estate sales team and gives them a blistering motivational speech that has gone down in history as one of the best of all time. It’s an unforgettable scene, no doubt about it, and plenty entertaining. A-B-C,” he says as he points to each letter. “A-B-C,”

Enterprise 52

Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Sales 52

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

In my experience, getting caught up in shiny objects (like great numbers) during the hiring process is a straight line to Disasterville, and when the cost of a bad hire is painfully significant , it pays to take a measured approach. Also: What are the top performers in my current team doing? This is a team effort.

Sales Hiring 96

Sales Hiring Interviewing Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 96

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. Jason : I’m very entertained, so keep going.

Part-Time VPE 219

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 219

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.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. SMB SaaS companies tend to have higher churn rates due to their lower demand and less sophisticated needs. High churn is understandable for newer startups, but it does indicate that a tool may be a poor market fit, have limited demand, or struggle to compete against similar products.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

She manages a huge global team. It has a portion of its revenue that’s very sensitive to the economy and a lot of startups in the customer base, good and bad, right? Sam will have a lot of interesting perspectives on how he manages his team through these times. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

Merchant Services 176

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 176

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

That’s not a bad start. We work with mostly modern teams. We started out in the commercial SMB mid-market space. Developers were really loyal to the product, and they were able to take the product with them whenever they went. Join us at SaaStr Europa 2020. Roger Scott | EVP @ New Relic. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Scale 171

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 171