Innovation Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Venture Capital 
SaaStr
DECEMBER 5, 2019
.” We had been talking, up until that point, we’d been talking somewhat informally about potentially creating a proper ventures fund at Workday. And the very first thing that I did, like any neurotic person is I Googled corporate venture capital. They might be sales operations challenges. We hear this a lot.
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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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. Some of his first professional positions were Engagement Manager at McKinsey, as well as a management consultant at Value Partners. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? How does David think about payback period on a per rep basis?
ProfitWell
DECEMBER 4, 2019
An existing SaaS customer spends more, on average, than a new customer, and are more than seven times more likely to churn (leave your business) to go to a competitor because of poor customer service than they are for a better product. Shopify has been amply rewarded for its innovations in ecommerce. Consistent updates. Growth stage.
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. Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Pietro Bezza | Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures. Ophelia Brown | Founder, Partner @ Blossom Capital. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Evgenia Plotnikova | Principal @ Dawn Capital. Christina Fonseca | Venture Partner @ Indico Partners (moderator). I’m the founder of Blossom Capital.
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