OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. Those with experience in both B2B and B2C sales know that B2B is a lot tougher—the deals are bigger, there’s often more than one decision-maker, and the competition is intense. For all those reasons, hiring and management must be on point.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting B2B 80

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before you rush in for the sale, you need to assess everything. Tailor your solution and sales material to meet their specific need in the same language they use when they talk about their problems and desired solutions. Remember, not every conversation is a sale. Recruit advocates (actual insiders) early. Familiarity.

Enterprise 141

Enterprise Technical Review Sales Recruiting Scale 141

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

They also talked about the difficulties — and potential advantages — of selling into small businesses, taking alternative approaches to interviewing candidates, and the importance of keeping culture a vital part of a company as it scales. We’re experimenting with it, but we haven’t made a massive investment.

Payments 111

Payments Forecasting Payment Services Payment Solutions 111

Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I’ve never created LinkedIn content with the “goal” of lead generation or immediate-term sales. Another cool example I really like is Tito Bohrt — he stands out with the pseudo, “ Sales Mad Scientist ” — which demonstrates confidence and a unique identity online.

Sales Recruiting 128

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Social Media 128

Mucker Capital

APRIL 2, 2024

In this Mucker Growth session, Mike Genstil with ValueCore delves into the concept of value selling and its application in enterprise sales. As a founder, ideally you want your sellers, marketers, and product leaders aligned in transforming product features into value-based messages to accelerate sales cycles and secure corporate deals.

Sales Recruiting 52

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 8, 2020

According to First Round’s 2019 State of Startups report , sales leadership is the most difficult hire to make. And with sales being a top priority for founders…. …along with it getting harder to recruit top-quality talent… Image: State of Startups. That’s the opposite of scaling efficiently.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Sales 81

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

P9 Panel on Hiring Sales Leaders — Founders Summit 2023 “You are going to fire your first sales manager!” — A lesson too many founders learn the hard way. The Founder isn’t willing to be the first salesperson Many of the best founders we work with don’t have a sales background and are either product or engineering focused.

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User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Interviews. This involves collecting new data directly from your target audience using various methods, such as surveys , focus groups, and interviews. Interviews : Have one-on-one conversations to gather detailed information from individuals in your target audience. Organizational scale. Focus groups. Product trials.

Market Research 52

Market Research Sales Recruiting Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

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. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Manual processes first. Names stick.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 157

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 141

Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

On this episode of the podcast, I interview Arthur Nobel and we discuss scaling SaaS companies. Arthur is a Principal at Knight Capital – an investment firm that specialises in B2B software businesses. What we discovered is companies sometimes struggle with scaling so we dived into the reasons for that.

Scale 52

Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting SaaS 52

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Account Managers: They serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. Average salary: $46,035/yr.

Sales Hiring 96

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 96

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. Here’s what Claire talks about: How to avoid trapdoor decisions when scaling. Lessons for scaling high-growth organizations.

Scale 120

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 120

Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I’ve never created LinkedIn content with the “goal” of lead generation or immediate-term sales. Another cool example I really like is Tito Bohrt — he stands out with the pseudo, “ Sales Mad Scientist ” — which demonstrates confidence and a unique identity online.

Sales Recruiting 52

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Social Media 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

Scale 181

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 181

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As for Ryan, prior to G2 he was Senior Director of Global Marketing at Hubspot where among many other achievements, he scaled HubSpot’s marketing-generated sales revenue by 330% year-over-year. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Ryan Bonnici. Harry Stebbings. Ryan Bonnici. Romain Lapeyre.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 136

Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

How he founded Sales playbook. I founded SalesPlaybook after getting frustrated by the lack or absence of sales support for startup founders. A lot of these companies have never done outbound sales and they don’t have a repeatable process in place and they haven’t really nailed down their ideal customer profile.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 52

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The sales enablement industry has taken tremendous strides in recent years, but by most measures, it's still a relatively immature function. To fill this "best practices void" and play my part in elevating the role of sales enablement I often take ideas from other fields and apply them to my work at HubSpot.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. What “customer success” looks like evolves as your company and customers scale upmarket.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. They go for the sale without caring about what the customer needs in the first place. Coach regularly.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Startup 93

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As companies scale, they often cannot satisfy customer needs equally well. The momentum gap The product momentum gap happens when organizations start to scale. One of the consequences of this is that the sales cycles slow down. Scale effectively Scaling is not just about growing bigger; it’s about growing smarter.

Scale 93

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 93

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

What were Steve’s biggest takeaways from seeing the hyper-scaling at AppDynamics? Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” Where does Steve find common points of tension between sales and marketing? How can a CEO determine when is the right time to fundamentally invest in devops? What works?

DevOps as a Service 100

DevOps as a Service Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 100

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

Product Marketing 80

Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 80

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. Now, I just invest in SasS companies. SaaStr is Turning 10!

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Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 270

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 26, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Rahim Fazal , Co-Founder and CEO of the SV Academy. If you missed episode 71, check it out here: PODCAST 71: Why is Account Based Marketing Not Working w/ Latane Conant. Keeping up with the evolution of sales. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Sales 57

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So I was a product manager managing the investing side of this marketplace.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 114

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

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 132

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. We invest all over the country and very much in Europe as well including Paris. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Company Culture 117

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. They go for the sale without caring about what the customer needs in the first place. Coach regularly.

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Startup 52

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Were interviewing larger customers, figuring things out, and they were in Houston. They’re like, we’ll give you badges, you can come into our office, Make this your office get access to people interview us. it’s a sports tech company.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 95

SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. Before this transaction, Andrew had raised over $45m in funding from the likes of Rory @ Scale and Bain Capital Ventures just to name a few. Andrew Filev. Andy Wilson.

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Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 150

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2013

After the investment closed, the founders wanted to renege on that part of the agreement , but the board asked the duo to meet some of the valley’s top CEOs. From Netflix to Facebook, Twitter to Google, successful startups build great management teams. Then, the co-founders scale the engineering team to code faster.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Interviewing 100

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

We invested in more social and video content as well to connect with more of you. Lessons learned from scaling a team. Scaling a company inherently means getting further away from our initial skill set, the actual abilities that got us up and running in the first place. ” On Sales. LB Harvey, VP of Sales.

Scale 150

Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 150

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. In this interview, David Sacks talks about how 70-80% of investor time is spent looking at AI.

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Scale Sales Hiring AI Sales Recruiting 256

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Have you ever dreamed of becoming a VP of Sales? This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak to Dan Cook, SVP of Sales & Success at LucidChart, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the US, about what it takes to become a sales executive at a top company. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 11, 2020

I wasn’t satisfied that we lost a customer, but I was now armed with valuable new information that would lead to a breakthrough in our sales model. When I ran Customer Success at PeopleMatter I interviewed every customer who canceled their services with us. Conducting the churned customer interview. Nothing less will do.

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