Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Is it going to come from the Sales and Marketing budget, or General Administrative budget? In order to scale a Customer Success organization in a way that’s meaningful for your engagement strategy, the budgeting aspect has to be clearly defined from the beginning. Lastly, you should carefully consider your software capabilities.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It’s even harder if you don’t know all of the armies on the field, their strategies and weapons, or even who’s a friend and who’s a foe. The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. Innovative startups.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

You might have a few account executives and a sales leader in place; maybe some revenue and a handful of customers. The sales team costs real money, and the question before the company is: how do you know what quota plan to assign to the account executives? I’ve seen four stages in early stage software companies.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. Use sales conversations as a tool to get product feedback. So how do you get there?

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User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

TL;DR Market research is vital for making informed business decisions, enabling companies to understand the market, target audience, and competitors, reducing risks, and optimizing marketing communications and product strategies. Interviews. The outcome? Focus groups. Product trials. Each method has its benefits.

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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. One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers?

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations. Average salary: $196,172/yr.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Getting the team right is one of the hardest parts of scaling sales. But no sales team can afford to grow without intention. While building a sales team, we’ve focused a lot on our sales culture. Here’s how we went about growing a sales team that is both world class and culture-additive.

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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.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Nothing matters but recruiting and using your personal network. Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

designing screens, writing code, running tests), product management is a broader concept that encompasses strategy , vision, and product-market fit. Your marketing and sales teams have a big part to play in making sure you roll out to your target market smoothly and drive interest on day one.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

You can collect feedback from your customer base via in-app surveys, feedback widgets, interviews, and by monitoring social media mentions and reviews. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies. How do you recruit your interviewees?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. Before Hubspot, Ryan was Head of Marketing @ Salesforce (APAC) where he led his team to achieve 227% YoY net-new sales sourced through marketing.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 4, 2019

The proliferation of AI-powered tools, software systems, and devices is also dramatically transforming the way that recruiters source top talent. Recruiting technology can bring fresh hiring strategies to life. Modern tools hold the key to tackling areas of recruiting that have historically presented obstacles.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors. To be actionable, a product strategy should focus on specific user behaviors that create customer value. One of the consequences of this is that the sales cycles slow down. This is where a product-led growth strategy comes in.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

Ever since he was hired as the Director of EMEA Sales at BrowserStack , a web and mobile testing platform that lets developers test their websites and mobile applications across browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, he had to completely rethink how to successfully onboard hundreds of salespeople just as everyone was going remote.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. On this podcast, we share stories from global SaaS leaders like Ryan, that you can use to inspire new growth strategies in your own business. We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps. We’d like to see your software.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. Then, the sales team went to work. When making a sales hire, Max pays attention to the way candidates approach getting the job.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Craft a comprehensive go-to-market strategy covering your product positioning , pricing , marketing campaign details, and launch timelines. Your feature launch marketing strategy should use a range of channels, like in-app announcements , emails , and social media posts. Assists in managing the launch timelines.

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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?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Eddie Baez, the co-founder of Career Pipe, a recruiting agency and SDR training program for underrepresented groups and minorities primarily in New York City. Eddie is bringing B2B sales to a group of people that may not be as aware of it. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes.

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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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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. I don’t know anything about sales. More power to you.

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

If you’re CXO/VP-level, make sure you spend time with this team during your interviews [1] and make sure you think they are “good people” who you trust and who you’d want to work with for a long time [2]. See the note below for thoughts on how this relates to Blue Ocean Strategy [11]. Strong investors.

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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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 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, myself and my co founder, we were kind of software developers, like kind of engineers by background.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

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. However, back in 2013, in my previous career as a strategy consultant, I was doing a lot of work with telecoms companies in South Africa.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

Where does Jessica find managers and founders do pipe reviews wrong? What does Jessica believe is the right way for sales reps to engage with new customers during this time? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts? What other strategies has Jessica seen work really well for retention? Jessica Lin.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Eoghan McCabe, CEO , and Matt Hodges, VP of Commercial Product Strategy. Des Traynor, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer. Historically, we’ve spent proportionately way more on research and development than other software companies we track, and that won’t stop any time soon. Ulaize Hernandez Troyas, Product Manager.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JANUARY 11, 2018

I subscribe to numerous podcasts that help me learn more about business and marketing, but also those further afield, in the hope that I can apply a learning or glean insight that can be leveraged in my sales enablement role. Recommended episode is: Sales Mistakes That Can Kill Your Startup & How To Avoid Them.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Ellie Tamari , the VP of North American Sales at Namogoo. Today we are incredibly excited to have a recent friend, member of the Boston chapter of the Revenue Collective, and female sales leader that came to the role somewhat later in life — Ellie Tamari. What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 1, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Rick Smolen , VP of Sales at Greenhouse Software about moving your product upmarket and how to sell your software to a big company. What sales strategies and philosophies are necessary for enterprise sales. What You’ll Learn. We’re on iTunes.

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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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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. We tried to come up with a framework where we set marketing, sales and finance which we call heavy burdens of the company.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They work with consulting firms, hire their own analysts, buy data management software. But the fact is that a large portion of the employees – developers, marketers, product managers (whose work depends on an intimate understanding of the customer) – rarely, if ever, interact with them.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Krish Subramanian. Does it have to be in person?

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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. And so it felt like it was a place that was ripe for new software products.

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