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. 20 VCs do come to me to invest in the company now. Jyoti Bansal: Let’s switch topics to sales.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 242

SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

We’ll have two full days of thought leadership content, networking opportunities, fantastic food, and fabulous evening events, all in the heart of Barcelona — snag your Europa 2022 tickets and catch up with us on the other side of the Atlantic this summer! Check out the full video and transcript below! No, I’m joking.

Sales Hiring 251

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 251

InsightSquared

MAY 15, 2019

It’s one of my favorite questions to ask a fellow professional in sales operations. Insurance sales rep. Account Manager. Sales Operations is Still Developing. Sales operations as a profession is growing, yet it is a comparatively new function in businesses. Sales Ops is Many Disciplines in One.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Review Sales 110

Kellblog

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Weak sales productivity , measured either relative to the company’s model or industry averages (median $675K) [2]. High sales turnover. Pivot the company , making a major change in strategy or sales model. Let’s do only enterprise accounts and account-based marketing (ABM). Let’s go product-led growth (PLG).

Sales Recruiting 134

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Marketing Scale 134

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

I want to come be your VP of sales and, you’re going to meet me for the first time. Spencer : For me, the key things for a VP of sales is, “OK, tell me about your best reps. We’re trying to recruit someone that’s way above our weight class, so that we can actually scale. You hire a search firm.

VP of Engineering 253

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 253

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB.

Sales Recruiting 132

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 132

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.

Sales Recruiting 164

Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 164

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. You have two partners and one or two other investing?

Investment 159

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. Afterward, Patrick founded several businesses in diverse sectors, including tech, healthcare, and finance. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Mary Rogul , a VP Sales Consultant, who’s currently an Enterprise Sales Advisor at Crayon. Fresh out of college, Mary started out in accounting, but it didn’t take long before she began a 20-year sales career that led her through Monster.com, HubSpot, and several others.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Sales 52

Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Barrett Boston , Chief Revenue Officer at TriNet. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales. The finance world wasn’t scratching the itch, though, so he decided that he just had to be in sales.

Leadership 78

Leadership Scale Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering 78

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. In fact, one of the defining chapters in that book was her user instructions for her as a manager. COO, what does it mean?

CTO Coach 136

CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 136

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Everyone here I think actually has a different background that they bring to the table, whether it’s a programmer, whether it’s in finance, whether it’s in law. Then we needed to hire a sales guy who had experience selling to enterprise. We got the guy who ran enterprise sales at Rackspace.

Sales Hiring 253

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 253

SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

Keith Rabois is an investment partner at Khosla Ventures where he focuses on consumer Internet, education, enterprise, financial services, and digital health investments. Because you’ve done a lot of angel investments in your time as well. I probably invested in 80 or so, maybe 85 companies. You guys are awesome.

Merchant Services 218

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 218

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matt Rizzetta , founder of North 6th Agency, which is a communications and PR firm based in New York City. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to get better at sales [21:37]. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

Scale 105

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 105

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

Keith Rabois is a General Partner at Founders Fund where he focuses on consumer Internet, education, enterprise, financial services, and digital health investments. Because you’ve done a lot of angel investments in your time as well. I probably invested in 80 or so, maybe 85 companies. You guys are awesome.

Merchant Services 191

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 191

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Stay tuned: The full Customer Success Leadership Study report with more key findings and recommendations for Customer Success leaders will be available in the beginning of January 2021. Just by its very nature, the finance team really isn’t going to reach out unless there’s a problem to be solved. Finish the feature.

Customer Success 87

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Finance Sales Hiring 87

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. He was investing in internet companies. And I started as an engineer and as an MBA and frankly in business school back then they didn’t even have a class on sales. And I think most of your teams, you need sales engineers, you need founders.

Sales Recruiting 166

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 166

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.

Scale 152

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 152

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. So, as a consumer, the way that you interacted with your finances in the web pre-Plaid was doing a variety of manual processes. Zach : Yeah.

Payments 142

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 142

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

So essentially building the first operating system for corporate learning and development teams in bringing thought leadership community best practices around the LearnOps category. And we decided to do a seed financing, found a lead investor in Toronto, that kind of solidified things for us. it’s a sports tech company.

Payment Solutions 91

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a global technology focused investment firm. Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. I was a CFO, so I went down the hall to finance to meet my people in finance. I’m like, oh.

Scale 169

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 169

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 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.

Scale 116

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 116

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2019

And this is the moment of reckoning that you get to as a SaaS company is that a sale is not the end. You can be very happy when you sell someone, you can exalt, you can have the high fives, but a sale is really the beginning. First off, the land, this is your typical initial sale. That’s really what they’re buying.

Sales Recruiting 166

Sales Recruiting Construction Scale SaaS 166

Kellblog

OCTOBER 13, 2019

However, as soon as a founder/CEO raises venture capital (VC) they have decided to take investing partners along on the journey. Most of the time, in my experience, VCs run in advice/support mode, but if a company starts to have continual performance problems, is considering a new financing, or evaluating potential exit opportunities (e.g.,

Sales Hiring 75

Sales Hiring Venture Capital Sales Recruiting Startup 75

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

How does leadership change for Jesse in the face of scale? How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership? You’re facing extremely long sales cycles, which doesn’t really align with the quick results you want to have as a business. Where are the challenges?

Scale 121

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 121

OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

However, as soon as a founder/CEO raises venture capital (VC) they have decided to take investing partners along on the journey. Most of the time, in my experience, VCs run in advice/support mode, but if a company starts to have continual performance problems, is considering a new financing, or evaluating potential exit opportunities (e.g.,

Sales Hiring 59

Sales Hiring CTO Hire Venture Capital Technical Advisors 59

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Does having an exec and sales team in one place and the rest of the team elsewhere work? 283: Nicole Alvino, founder of SocialChorus, shares some ‘truth is crazier than fiction stories’ about her time in structured finance at Enron and how she applied what she learned to build a company that has 10 of the Fortune 50 as customers.

Education 107

Education Sales Hiring Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 107

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. How does Karl think about working with recruiters? I had an angel investment of mine in the other day. Do we need a sales org?”

Sales Hiring 217

Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 217

SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2020

Before entering the world of SaaS, May was a vice president at one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, where she was the first employee on the technology investment team, building a portfolio now worth over $20B. May Habib: Well, I started my career in banking and then I moved over to the investing side.

VP of Engineering 202

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Leadership Sales Recruiting 202

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Globalization opens up a world of opportunities for sales growth. Even what we could consider “good problems” need preparation, and it starts by understanding your team and your goals, including knowing when and how to recruit members of your team, and building in a way that compliments your growth. It’s your biggest investment.

Sales Hiring 121

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Interviewing 121

SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations. Whitney is also an advisor to companies funded by the YC Continuity Fund, focusing on enterprise strategy, go-to-market strategy, leadership and execution.

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Underperforming Technical Team 132

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. Invest millions of dollars into growth while running your business at a loss. I find that refreshing.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

And so we’re a great experience for your employees but also for your finance teams who are trying to control costs and save money. Meagen, sales. Launch it to our customers, launch it to the sales team, launch it to prospects.” What did we need for our sales team from an enablement standpoint and our CSMs?

Travel 174

Travel Marketing Scale Outsourcing Services 174

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees.

Payment Solutions 146

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 146