InsightSquared

MAY 15, 2019

Sales Operations is Still Developing. As thought leadership evolves and new iterations of revenue and commercial operations take shape, visibility for the discipline is skyrocketing. Finance and management studies gave you models to take into the real world while our area did not. What makes a “good” or “bad” deal?

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Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Review Sales 110

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

To date, the company has raised $120M in financing from Battery Ventures, Insight, Venrock, Costanoa, Bain Capital, and Salesforce Ventures to name a few. What can teams do to bring their themes to life? As I’ve said before, I’ve heard so many good things from Brian and the team at Venrock. Who is involved?

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Scale Sales Hiring Software Review Technical Review 172

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 165

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 165

Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Before diving in, let me remind readers that I do these predictions in the spirit of fun, they are not business or investment advice, and that all of my usual disclaimers and terms apply. Management changes , as leadership teams drift from a spirit of value creation for customers to value extraction from them. High-growth.

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Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 143

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. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Short on time? Speak the customer’s language.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Team selling and why it’s making a comeback [7:43]. Who influenced Trish in her career development [31:34]. She’s going to be talking to us about team selling and how the concept of combined quotas with senior and junior account executives, converging on one territory, is coming back. Show Introduction [00:04].

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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. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Know your forever user.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

During his 5 years at PatientPop, Justin grew sales from $0 to $56m alongside the full build-out of the sales team. As a manager observing their team, what are signs that an individual is burning out? What actions and communications must they adopt to ensure that this feeling of culture over performance is accepted by the team?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

Outreach produces incredible industry leading events like their Unleash Conference and their city-by-city Unleashed Summit Series road shows which will resume once people are allowed to take road shows again, along with top notch, thought leadership content. You said great teams must pass the org chart alignment test.

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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. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Claire Johnson: If you don’t know us, I’d love to change that.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 116

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. I think it’s a really staggering stat. We talked about growth.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

She’s now a consultant helping VPs of Sales scale and build their sales teams. She’s also been a high-performing individual contributor — she was part of the team that drove a lot of growth at HubSpot as it went from small to large, and she worked under Mark Roberge. I understand accounting and finance. What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2020

Dr. Gleb is on a mission to protect leaders from dangerous judgment errors known as cognitive biases by developing the most effective decision making strategies. His cutting edge thought leadership has been featured in over 550 articles and 450 interviews in the likes of Fast Company, CBS News, and Time. We’re on iTunes.

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Underperforming Technical Team Government Scale Systems Review 99

TriTuns

MARCH 20, 2019

I really like this way of thinking as it’s not just for the short term and the now, it’s about the what (the value) and the who (it allows for customers to include customers as we know them, our employees and team members and our shareholders and investors). Customer leadership. It’s not easy.

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Sales Hiring Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

TriTuns

MARCH 20, 2019

I really like this way of thinking as it’s not just for the short term and the now, it’s about the what (the value) and the who (it allows for customers to include customers as we know them, our employees and team members and our shareholders and investors). Customer leadership. It’s not easy.

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Sales Hiring Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

TriTuns

MARCH 20, 2019

I really like this way of thinking as it’s not just for the short term and the now, it’s about the what (the value) and the who (it allows for customers to include customers as we know them, our employees and team members and our shareholders and investors). Customer leadership. It’s not easy.

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Sales Hiring Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

SaaStr

MAY 31, 2019

How can one prevent their customer support team from being a wall of protection for the product and eng team? Stripe recently announced their 5th office would be… “remote”, so how does Parker feel about the building of remote teams? What are the most important things when establishing your first remote team?

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Scale Systems Review 132

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

Payment Solutions 146

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 146

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.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Branding 158

User Pilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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VP of Engineering Management Underperforming Technical Team Compensation 104

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Sam : This is not my insight, but someone else says… I really do believe it, that the team you build is the company you build.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 253

SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2023

After three months, this talented guy came to Harbaugh with the recognition that LaunchDarkly’s customers were developers. He didn’t like to sell to developers, so he quit. because they needed to rebuild the sales team. They rebuilt the sales team and closed some big deals. A bad one can torpedo you.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 238

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. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

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.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As you can tell from that list, it was really a team effort, so huge thanks for that. Dave McJannet: So, I started my career in the world of finance, actually, and I moved to the Bay area when my girlfriend, now my wife, came here for grad school. ” But really, it was the team side of it. Let’s start there.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. We recently sat down with Maggie to chat about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Look for the team players.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 118

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.

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 142

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. To date the company has raised over $132M in financing from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Index, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins to name a few. What worked? What did not work?

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Advisors 192

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. Missed the session?

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Underperforming Technical Team 132

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. Her team loved working for her. Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 3, 2022

Those are resources that most sales teams do not have, and resources that most marketing teams need to protect. To meaningfully speed up your content creation process without sacrificing quality or quantity, though, you also need to look closely at how your team approached sales enablement. Develop T-shaped professionals.

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Sales Enablement Scale Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services 100

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Who sales development should report to (spoiler: it’s marketing). Who should sales development report to? [15:20]. We talk about the history of marketing, who sales development should report to, all of it. I have about 140 folks and that includes the sales development reps. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 79