OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As part of our last three annual finance and operating benchmarks surveys, we’ve asked nearly 2,000 startup founders and leaders of B2B SaaS businesses this simple question: “What’s keeping you up at night?”. It’s one of my favorite questions, even though it’s really not a financial or operating metric at all. .

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Anything less is failure.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale?

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

million round of financing led by Grotech Ventures in 2017. Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. Interest from channel partners and sales via channel partners can be another meaningful indicator. . Let’s hear what they each had to say. .

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Marketing and sales may employ different tactics, but their goal should be singular: help the company sell its product. Sometimes, however, blocks can develop in the pipeline. Here are 4 quick takeaways: Many early-stage companies fail because they scale sales too quickly. you’re not ready to build out sales.

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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. Afterward, Patrick founded several businesses in diverse sectors, including tech, healthcare, and finance. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO. Patrick Campbell, CEO, ProfitWell.

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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. But even back then, I heard whispers in the halls of how great a manager Claire was. Her team loved working for her. If not, you can send me bad pictures of dachshunds.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

So when my co founder William and I first founded Plaid, we had this vision that we wanted to create, tools to help consumers better analyze their finances. But along the way we found that the tool that we’d built was really interesting to a lot of other developers. So Plaid had a bit of a rocky early start.

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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.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

And I guess this was somewhat foreshadowing because I’m now backed by David Saks who is the founding team there. Harry Hurst: So throughout my teens and early 20s, I built companies ranging from fashion distribution, all the way to headhunting and recruitment. Especially when there’s kind of that continuity on the team.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. In a nutshell, they can give you expert opinions, analysis, and recommendations that can help ensure a more objective-based approach to grow your business and maximize sales – all at the same time. So what do you do?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Amy Frampton , Head of Marketing at BambooHR and 15-year marketing veteran. Join us for a hilarious conversation about what’s changed in marketing lately, brushing shoulders with Marshawn Lynch, poaching SDRs and AEs from sales, and tips for employer branding. powered by Sounder.

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Upscope

MAY 24, 2019

There are many articles on developing a customer experience (CX) strategy so seeing a range of practical examples will help put them into perspective. The KONE CX program was expanded to the entire company not just one section, they expanded it to R&D, sales, marketing and finance. Contents Why have a CX Strategy.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

David is also the author of foreentrepreneurs.com the must read blog in the world of SaaS metrics. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How David made his way into the world of SaaS at the age of 22. * How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps?

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 10, 2019

It’s easy to forget that SaaS product management is a relatively new, and still emerging, function. For proof, might I suggest the classic post Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager , which presents a very different vision for the role of product manager than most of us have today). Role of Product Manager.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. 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.

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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? Loving our podcast content? How does this requirement change as the company scales?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Actually what I found was a little disarming, a little unfortunate, because there was a lot of, I think, bad experiences in the past with corporate venture capital and with earlier stage companies or with other VCs working with CVCs as they were once called. They might be sales operations challenges. ” And not just open ended.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable.

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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. When is the right time for founders to think about building out their first exec team? How can you develop a winning culture? Missed the session?

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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. David Schmaier: Sure.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

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