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2021 Financial & Operating Benchmarks: How to Become One of the ‘Haves’ of SaaS

OpenView Labs

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. This is most visible among publicly traded companies. Then it’s critical to sell, sell, sell.

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. powered by Sounder.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform. Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business.

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Customer Insights to Transform Sales Conversations

Sales Hacker

Sales customer insights. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales. Guidance shouldn’t just be around high-level attributes for the prospect like revenues or number of offices but should get into factors that are specific for your proposition.

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SaaS in Africa: 10 Things We Learned From Scaling to 1M Users (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Our first MVP was actually an SMS based app where job seekers would send six SMSes in order to register on our platform.

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What Makes a Great VP of Sales and How to Hire One

SaaStr

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. It goes something like “You’ve Got to Get Past the Carcass of Your First VP of Sales” or “It’s The Second VP of Sales When You Really Start Selling” or variants thereof. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail.

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A Look Back: Talkdesk, Greenhouse, Algolia and Gainsight Coming Up On $10m ARR

SaaStr

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. They built themselves into a core platform for HR 2.0 web services. Daniel, you grew to 3 million in ARR before you hired a VP of Sales.