FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In this episode of Growth Stage, Carl will dives into his experience running acquisitions of SMB software businesses, including: His thoughts on what makes a software company a good target for an acquisition by a brand. This leaves the sale of the business a lot more vulnerable to the market. Jump to highlights.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

If you think sales is a simple job, I have a few hundred professional connections who would like a word with you. By mastering your sales interview questions. As a longtime recruiting leader, I’ve worked with countless hiring managers looking to fill sales roles , and I’ve had a firsthand look at their interview process.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2020

According to statistics from our sales professional user base here at RepVue , only 46.7% of sales professionals globally are achieving quota. And it’s even fewer in software sales organizations. 6 Key Fit Factors When Hiring for Sales. How transactional is your sales process? Not so fast.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. Our Guiding Principle: Our Software and SaaS Community Must Be Good for You in Order for It to Succeed. Professional moderation.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

When TestDome was created, CEO and co-founder Mario Zivic knew the pre-employment testing software company wouldn’t be able to rely on domestic sales to succeed. “As Selling Software Internationally With FastSpring Croatia is a relatively small country with a population of only 4 million people.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I But really excited about this interview. Jump to video.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I asked Aasif Osmany to share his learnings as a top-performing SMB VP of Sales, below. I sent cold emails and LinkedIn messages and ended up with nine interviews. From those nine interviews, I received four offers. Going into the interviews, I knew what I wanted out of a job– that part was simple.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The term comes from a commercial and was first used in the software context by a Microsoft manager in 1988. Use surveys , interviews, session recordings, and product analytics to gather insights. TL;DR Product dogfooding is a testing practice. It’s a widely accepted practice in many organizations. Don’t stop there.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

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. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 27, 2021

Anyone who has ever tried to sell software to developers probably learned pretty quickly that traditional B2B marketing tactics just plain don’t work. That’s why I interviewed more than 50 developers in DevOps, DevSecOps, and generalist back-end roles about how they prefer to discover, try, and purchase software.

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OPEXEngine

APRIL 12, 2022

The other day a founder asked me about interviewing because a candidate had described me as “a great interviewer,” and she wanted to know why. I find interviewing and recruiting difficult, have made plenty of mistakes over the years, and the consequences of those mistakes are invariably painful. And for that matter, so did I.).

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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2022

These pillars helped propel Miro, a visual collaboration software company, to a valuation of $17.5 In this SaaStr Europa 2022 session, Matt Jacobson, General Partner at ICONIQ Growth, interviews Miro’s Founder & CEO, Andrey Khusid, to get insight into how he was able to grow the company so successfully.

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SaaStr

JULY 7, 2022

Incredibly, ZoomInfo has scaled to IPO with an entirely sales-driven motion. He breaks down how GTM efficiency drives their ability to scale with sales-driven motion and other insights you can apply to scale your SaaS business. Compare the talent that you meet through informational interviews with the talent you have on your team.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization.

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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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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In two one-hour interviews, FastSpring sales leaders Todd Stellfox and Tony Markov each interviewed Kurt about pricing strategies that work in volatile markets and beyond. Stream both interviews below and see highlights from each. Todd Stellfox, Sales Manager at FastSpring. How to Price a New Product.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

But with the rapid advancement of tech and so many options on the market, choosing the right technology for your sales team can seem like a tall mountain to climb. Today, we’re seeing a continuous trend of vendor consolidation across multiple software categories. This isn’t the only effect WFH has had on the sales tech market, though.

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Is it going to come from the Sales and Marketing budget, or General Administrative budget? Where does Sales, Support, Training & Education play and what does the handoff look like? Lastly, you should carefully consider your software capabilities. A: “We typically see organizations falling within seven categories.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

A good way to learn more about your customer personas and segments is through interviews, surveys, and sales team data. Interviews. If you have a small number of customers, interviewing them can give you a better signal into who’s interested in buying your product and what products they might be interested in in the future.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Historically, video game and software developers have relied on open computing with PC and Mac platforms because it has enabled developers to release titles as they see fit, have a direct relationship with their players, and choose payment solutions that work for them. What Do Game Developers Who Aren’t Epic Want?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Do at least 20 potential customer interviews. Don’t Forget the 20 Interview Rule. Almost all software is sort of a copy of what came before. You might end up having to do sales yourself. A bit more here: If You’re Going to Do a SaaS Start-Up … You Have to Give it 24 Months | SaaStr. What’s Yours?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sales Technology has EXPLODED over the last few years. And just like the explosion of Martech, if you’re on the cutting edge of the sales tech revolution, you’ll reap the rewards. 6 Sales Tech Trends. 2020 will be the year of acquisitions in sales tech. As a result, you may find your tech stack shrinking in 2020. #2:

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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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Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Back to customer stories A cut above the rest Why Real Green Systems, the leading software platform for lawn care businesses, chose Payrix. 37 years later, Real Green is the innovative leader in software for the industry. 37 years later, Real Green is the innovative leader in software for the industry. GET A DEMO

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2021

Someone great at something core you aren’t: Sales, Engineering, Marketing. Great at sales. Do at least 20–30 customer interviews before you start writing too much code. If you hire someone to do the first sales, you’ll never understand it yourself. When you go to hire your first sales rep, hire 2. A bit more here.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

These experiences, whether it is observing someone use your product, or interviewing them about your product, need to be wide ranging. Another shortcut is to talk to the people in your company who do most of the talking to customers, notably the Sales and Support team. For example, at Intercom we build customer communication software.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2021

For this reason, spending time and money on sales and marketing-related tasks is never time wasted. In this post, I’m going to examine some of the top sales tools for boosting results, improving efficiency and organization and helping you generate more revenue. LinkedIn Sales Solutions. Let’s get started!

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In this interview, Naz shares her expertise on how to design a powerful CS strategy that equips your team with the right tools and resources to drive an exceptional employee experience and champion phenomenal growth. is equivalent to having a Customer Success strategy. How can organizations successfully align their teams around the customer?

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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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Valuize Consulting

JULY 15, 2021

Product Owners are at the center of software development in leading agile software companies. Jason is a Certified Product Manager who helps market-leading enterprise software companies maximize the impact, scale and efficiency of their CS technology investments. Sales owns one piece of the customer puzzle and CS owns the other.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2021

In a small way, a few of those age 10-20 skills I did acquire from starting a tiny software company then were what carried through to whatever success I’ve had. And flying somewhere crazy for an interview, or doing 30 interviews a week, is … harder. Sales — Not Easier. I let those go. It isn’t.

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Valuize Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In this interview, Romain discusses the fundamentals of a strong Customer Success (CS) Operations function and how you can leverage Agile methodologies to champion effective change management. How do you recommend that software leaders make the most of their customer data and technology?

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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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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

JFrog is the pioneer of Continuous Software Release Management, or CSRM. In other words, they got first-hand experience of the pains of software development. The initial goal was actually not to build a company; rather, it was just to solve the highly complex problems of managing software updates and delivery. JFrog offered 11.6

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Whether you need to hire dozens of sales reps in the next few months or you’re a scrappy startup and need your first three sales hires, building a business will nearly always involve hiring for sales. Although hiring is the hardest job we have to do as sales leaders, it’s certainly one of the most important tasks to get right.

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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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