SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2020

One of the classic original SaaStr posts was on the Top 10 Questions to Ask a VP of Sales Candidate. We did an update of that classic post below together with this brand new video on the topic: Use this script for hiring that first VP of Sales. Ready to hire your first VP Sales? But haven’t done it before? Where The Magic Is.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the latest episode of CRO Confidential, host Sam Blond, partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with Ashley Kelly, VP of Global Sales Development at Rippling. For context – Ashley had previously helped Sam scale Brex’s outbound sales from $2M to over $300M in ARR as Senior Director of SDR.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

and Lenny asked us to join his podcast to talk about building a sales team — from the perspective of a product-first founder or exec. It was a pretty strong conversation and we took a lot of our learnings over the years and focused on how to learn to do sales right if you come from a product-first background: It’s good.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Away from the crowds for two days and nights, founders exchange stories about their journeys, the triumphs, failures and the challenges of scaling a SaaS business. Smaller at scale, bringing 20 founders together, it will be an even more intimate experience for attendees. Tailored content for the scale stage. Make friends.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Once dominated by relationships, sales today (especially SaaS sales) are equally propelled by technology. With the broad adoption of CRM, the rise of the sales tech stack, and the advent of social selling and other digital sales channels, the sales landscape has shifted dramatically. Scaling SaaS Sales.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To $300k-$400k+ per employee at scale. Most of you are, in fact: According to our latest unscientific but directionally correct survey of over 2,000 SaaS execs, 64% of you are growing your sales team in 2024. I bet you get an interview. I thought we’d be behind them by now, that the cuts were sort of a one-off.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Dear SaaStr: What are some of the “ultimate sins” in marketing and sales and success in SaaS in the early stages? My list of some bad ones: Sales: Hiring any reps you wouldn’t buy from. Later, once you have a strong VP of Sales, it’s fine though. Your sales reps need to eat. Including not too many leads.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2020

Scaling Your Personalization. This is the downside of the modern Sales Assembly Line — both buyer and seller feeling like a cog in the wheel. Instead we need to focus on using our own voices and words to send each prospect a unique message. AI can help scale this, but we need to be careful not to rely too heavily on it.

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

As Donna Weber , the world’s leading expert in customer onboarding, knows, onboarding is about more than completing product training and filling out checklists. I recommend you interview customers. I would interview 5 to 10 customers and ask what ah-ha moment made them glad they bought your product.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

That result alone should encourage rethinking of AE interviewing. It formed the basis for a career at HubSpot predicated on consistent quantitative analysis to scale the go-to-market, which he detailed in the Sales Acceleration Formula in 2015. Adam Grant delimited the types of interviews with the greatest predictive power.

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Achieving Customer Success At Scale. As your customer base grows, the need to lead operations transformation, scale your CS team, manage intricate customer relationships and reach your customers across multiple touchpoints, is compounded. Q: What was your first job? How did you get started in Customer Success?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 15, 2023

You can expect upwards of 75-300 leads if you meet the guidelines of our Speaker and Sponsorships teams. All day we’ll get 25 of the Best Apps and Best Vendors in SaaS together live with the SaaStr community to show hundreds of CXOs and thousands of SaaS execs why to use your app. More details on it here!

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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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Dubb

MAY 29, 2023

However, he eventually found himself at a crossroads, feeling trapped by the business's reliance on his presence and yearning to be present for his kids’ The post Scaling Your Business with Proven Systems with David Jenyns appeared first on Dubb Blog.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 21, 2022

Yet, it’s often easy said than actually done, especially, when you’re looking for Customer Onboarding at Scale. To help you, we have compiled a list of the top 8 strategies that will enable you to carry out customer onboarding at scale. 8 Best Strategies for Customer Onboarding at Scale. Partnership Kick-off meeting.

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SaaStr

APRIL 21, 2022

Yes, sometimes it’s OK to hire a VP of Sales that everyone loves. At least 9 times out of 10, if everyone on the team loves a VP of Sales, it’s the wrong hire. And this especially matters because I often see CEOs picking between 2 final VP of Sales candidates. Even if they were, how many hired a VP of Sales at your ACV before?

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. Now, unfortunately there are a lot of constraints in Africa, major constraints when you’re talking about setting up and scaling a startup. Well, you have to build a direct sales force. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It doesn’t matter how good an individual contributor, how good of a hacker, how good of a small team lead you are/were. That’s not enough to scale. This often means 20+ interviews a week! But if you can’t recruit those leaders under you, really great ones … you can’t scale. Recruiting is hard. We All Need To).

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2020

A little while back we put together some of the top sales & marketing mistakes SaaS companies and founders make, especially in the early days. Sales: Hiring any reps you wouldn’t buy from yourself. Later, once you have a strong VP of Sales, it’s fine though. Your sales reps need to eat. Including not too many leads.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

So a playbook on scaling high performance organizations in 30 bit minutes. So big, big scale. I think over 25 years of working and leading teams and being on some that are high-performing and some that outright failed. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. No big deal.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Gorgias is the leading contact center for e-commerce and it’s been a fun one to track at SaaS, from 1,000 to 3,000 to now 7,000 customers. Their CEO will join us at SaaSr Scale 2021 on December 15 to talk about using data to get to 10,000 SMB customers! I sent cold emails and LinkedIn messages and ended up with nine interviews.

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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. Mistake 4: Not getting your product and engineering team on sales calls.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

Finding the perfect VP of Sales position can be daunting, especially in the middle of a global pandemic. Candidates need to find opportunities that not only fit their sales experience and stretch goals, but also companies that are coming out of the pandemic with momentum. Who is looking to hire a VP of Sales in January / Q1?

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Dubb

MAY 30, 2023

How do I scale The post Podcast: How to Scale and Grow Your Business without Burning Out with Jessica Yarbrough appeared first on Dubb Blog. In this podcast, we will discuss The top 3 reasons why people come to me to solve: -How do I shift into selling ultra high-end ($25K, $50K, $100K+) packages? I am at the center of my business.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

After that, the public markets began a precipitous decline — leading to an almost 2 year pause in SaaS IPO. at this scale (!!) At SaaStr we’ve been super fans for a long time and a little ways back we did an amazing interview with CEO Andrew Bialceki here: Our 5 Interesting Learnings here: #1.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

To solve this, Deel interviewed 200 founders seeking answers to the question, “If you’re open to hiring internationally and remotely, what are your biggest challenges, and what kind of product can we build to solve them? Manage scaling issues by using data to plan ahead and being team and customer-obsessed.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Premature scaling is the leading cause of failure, but businesses with two founders are 19% less likely to scale prematurely, as well as raising 30% more money and enjoying 3 times more user growth. But scaling is a unique phenomenon which needs to be constantly managed. ” Scale Sensibly and at the Right Time. .”

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2019

Alexandr Wang is the Founder & CEO @ Scale, the startup providing high quality training and validation data for AI applications. To date, Alexandr has raised over $23m with Scale from some of the best in the business including Index, Accel, Y Combinator, Dropbox’s Drew Houston, Justin Kan, Thumbtack’s Jonathan Swanson and more.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2019

Over Leyla’s incredible 11 year journey with Salesforce she has seen the team scale from 1,800 to over 40,000 and revenue scale from $500m to over $16Bn. What were Leyla’s biggest learnings on people and business model through seeing the first hand hyper-scaling of Salesforce from $500m to $16Bn?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

They’ve also: Built-in all the security and controls and technology to be able to scale Introduced Duet AI on the Google Cloud side to help with day-to-day coding and assistance The way GenAI has been built into the whole stack, natively from top-to-bottom, and owning and managing a lot of the pieces has been giving Google an edge in the market.

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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2019

The software sure looks a lot different: But not that much in terms of overall approaches to scaling has really changed, so long as you have kept up with technology changes. Inside Sales teams didn’t use to have products like Mixmax or Salesloft or Chorus or Gong. The post Are You Interviewing 50+ Years Young SaaS Veterans?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2020

Founder-led sales generally stops scaling around $1m-$2m ARR. A sign to hire a real sales leader. Over the years at SaaStr we’ve talked a lot about hiring a great VP of Sales, when it works, when it does, and how it moves the needle. The distraction of building a real sales team isn’t worth it yet.

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2021

Flock Safety’s Founder and CEO, Garrett Langley, and its VP of Growth, Alex Latraverse, know a bit about sales. Enough to go from 0 to 100 sales reps in about 18 months — and they’re looking to be well beyond 100 by the end of this month. Here are some things to remember when you think about scaling your next big SaaS company.

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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 And I won’t give away too much of the lead here.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

One of the most consistent errors made in sales projections and planning is mismatching the ramp time to the sales cycle. If my startup has a 9 months sales cycle and the VP of Sales projects a six month ramp time, my startup is committing this error. Leads have been nurtured in that territory for a while.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

With nearly a full hour of Q&A with a phenomenal communicator as our guest, our “Off The Record” interview with Pat Grady (Partner at Sequoia Capital) surfaced a number of actionable insights for Founders. We’ve excerpted 10 key highlights from our interview below: #1 – Habits Of Exceptional CEOs.

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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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