FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Flippa CEO Blake Hutchison about how Flippa works, as well as insights on what you should know if you’re a digital business owner looking to sell your business. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Jump to video. | Jump to transcript.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

Just had your SKO appreciate you taking the, the hour amongst all the crazy travels. Conversations reveal the unshared details behind how they have grown companies, and the go-to-market strategies responsible for shaping that growth. You’ve been a busy man. Hayden Stafford: My pleasure, man. Scott Barker: Yeah, I love it.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

might lead you to interviews or press releases where the companies share this information (because, well, everyone likes to brag). To help you dig deeper, I have two hacks to share that go beyond a simple Google search: Hack #1: Set up alerts for competitors’ interviews and conference presentations.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 10, 2024

“It is a holiday that marks the end of 200+ years of slavery, bondage, and abuse of African Americans,” multicultural marketing expert  Lizette Williams  pointed out in  an interview with Forbes in 2022.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 3, 2025

Sponsor Link: [link] The GTM Podcast The GTM Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with the top 1% GTM executives, VCs, and founders. Rick Kelley: So when I came to interview for the Yahoo role, and I’m gonna go back now a couple Sophie Buonassisi: Yeah. Weather apps and utility apps, travel apps, whatever.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Are you looking to increase traffic to your travel website? The travel industry is lucrative, and the competition is fierce. Therefore, rival businesses in this space need to ensure an effective travel SEO strategy to remain competitive and drive more customers. However, some unique challenges face the travel sector.

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Incredo

APRIL 8, 2020

But human nature and the will to move forward help companies even in the hardest times to come up with creative initiatives to spread the word about their companies. We interviewed tens of SaaS companies worldwide to understand what special campaigns they launched or how they tried to help people in general.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2023

Each board meeting takes a half day including travel, prep, etc. Just doing VP interviews alone takes a lot of time if you do a lot of them. They spend most of their time on existing investments. Imagine you are a VC on 9 boards of directors: Board meetings alone can take 20% or more of your time. 9 boards x 8 meetings a year x 0.5

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Hiring a VP of Sales Who Never Really Understands Your Product During The Interview Process Ok I know some even many will disagree, but I’m right here :). I recently interviewed a seasoned VP of Sales that lived in the South Bay in the Bay Area (San Jose).

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2020

We know it’s hard to apply and interview for a new job. When you interview for a design job, the process is usually mysterious: did you say the right things? When you interview for a design job, the process is usually mysterious: did you say the right things? On-site interviews. Show the right work? 5 ways to stand out.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

More here. -> Maybe Don’t Hire Anyone in Customer Success That Won’t Travel. This may not need to be a strict rule, but if you push here in the interview process, I find it shows who really goes the extra yard, and who doesn’t. Do this inorganically, and no one wants to talk to Customer Success.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

They had a last-minute speaker switch for their session, they had to swap team members who couldn’t travel last minute, and they had to rally their entire team behind creating collateral and product features in time for the live event. And how do I make sure that that memory lasts?”

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2020

. “While our physical offices are closed, Intercom’s products and services are fully operational and supported” On March 5th we also suspended all business travel and closed our offices to visitors including candidates, customers, work partners, family, and friends.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2024

Schultz explained: “So I always say, ‘Think about how many hours this search is going to take by the time you do the research, talk to candidates, do your outreach, interview candidates many times, do your back channel reference checks — all of that adds up.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 26, 2020

In addition to our temporary work-from-home policies, we suspended business travel and visitors to our offices beginning on March 5. We are conducting interviews and onboarding new employees remotely.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

It became a part of our interview questions. What questions do you ask in the interview? It’s a team that’s only focused on a values type interview process. Every single candidate coming through Gusto does what we call a watermelon interview. I got it wrong many times myself. How do you get them to join?

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

Jason has sat in on interviews with 50-100 VPs of Sales, and many of them don’t even know what the product was in their 4th or 5th interview. You don’t want a VP of Sales who isn’t willing to travel, is too tired, wants to quit, or wants to be fractional with 11 clients. Sales is hard, and it can burn you out.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’re still learning what world we’re in — some people interview over Zoom, some are focused on how to build teams in the current age, and many are dealing with a weird overhang from the SaaS explosion of 2021, quiet quitting, layoffs, and team turnover. Not everyone wants to travel or fly to Vegas or NY to meet a customer.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 29, 2023

Welcome back to Creators Unlocked , a series where we interview creators about their best practices. As a seasoned content creator, Stew's approach to sourcing inspiration combines keen observation with curiosity and a desire to explore the less traveled paths.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 1, 2021

To make event coverage more interesting, try contacting the organizers to find out who you can interview on location. Travel Videos. Travel videos are the darlings of people who like going on trips and meeting other cultures. Interview Videos. Consider making interviews a regular feature in your video channel.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

If I am traveling, I usually take a flight between 6:00am–7:30am. As you can imagine my routine changes with travel. . I typically work remote one day a week and for the other 4 days (if not traveling) I arrive in the office at 8:15. . 10:00am–12:00pm : Interview new candidates. Thursday: Travel Day. Wednesday .

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Trint

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In my 30 years of news reporting for ABC, CBS and CBC News I traveled to more than 40 countries, dodged bullets while reporting on wars, I interviewed prime ministers and presidents. I ran one of my interviews through it. Trint is a word I invented by merging the words “transcription” and “interview.” I was intrigued.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Through the founders we have met, interviewed and had on stage, we have seen that many of the obstacles are common for everyone. If you are a founder traveling from abroad, SaaSociety provides one more way to experience the beautiful surroundings of São Paulo after SaaStock LatAm. Make friends. In dealing with them, you are not alone.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 2, 2023

Traveling is one of them. You're quite the traveler. When I was job hunting, one of my top priorities was finding a role that allowed me to maintain a balanced lifestyle, with travel being a significant component. So, I was actively seeking a job that would allow me to travel and work simultaneously.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The founder was my age at the time, so we were in our early 20s and he ended up leaving to go travel and left me in charge, so it gave me a lot of leeway to really run the company how I wanted to. You can interview the company for it, but at some point it’s a little bit of a leap of faith. It was truly the time of my life.

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SaaStr

JULY 4, 2019

He’s going to be able to go and say, “I was the very first person to ever travel to an international office.” Members of your executive team, your top performers, have got to travel to that international office. During the interview process when I first joined, there was a lot of concern about this Australian team.

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Trint

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At my interview, I was excited about the culture at Trint and couldn’t wait to advance my career at Trint. What concerns did you have before joining the tech industry: None. I was excited to work at a start-up and the plenty of new opportunities that I was going to face when I started.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Even if I were to find one, how could an interview possibly screen for such depth of knowledge? Startups need teams who can change the tires on the bus as it’s traveling at 60 mph; they need a team of MacGyvers, who combine a little bit of knowledge, a wad of gum(ption) from their pocket and some raw smarts to solve a problem.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Adapting to remote work and eschewing business travel has forced a change – the events of the last year has already fundamentally changed how and where we do business. Norman: Spending millions every month on travel, most trips wasted actually, as it turns out. So that’s the problem. You can’t do that.

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User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

” This platform specialized in location-based queries , allowing travelers to seek advice directly from residents of a particular city. In his podcast, Lenny interviews leading product experts to extract actionable advice related to building and growing successful products. Lenny’s Podcast homepage.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

And without traveling, it’s much easier to talk to many investors in parallel. So he actually kind of enjoyed the process more than the normal process with a lot of meetings, travels, coffees, dinners. Just because of the special circumstances currently, it took us two weeks less than planned to get to a term sheet.

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Trint

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Seeing people transcribing interviews, speeches and news conferences in the 21st century the same archaic way journalists did in the 1970s, he realized that artificial intelligence (A.I.) and speech-to-text could do the heavy lifting of transcription. Media inquiries: Michael Nelson-Wolter, Trint: michael@trint.com www.trint.com

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the interview. This is part of an ongoing series of interviews about unlocking the potential of growth. I would travel all over the world to launch Duolingo for Japan, China, India, Korea, Turkey, all these places that I’ve never even been to.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Interview with Little Otter CEO Rebecca Egger. You can also read the full transcript of the interview, which has been lightly edited for clarity, below. ” My time at Palantir was amazing, but I was traveling a lot, a lot, a lot, and I really wanted to find some stability and work on one project for a longer set of time.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Outside sales often involves a large amount of travel, autonomy, and emotional intelligence. Obviously, on the surface they can look very different — one being an office job and the other involving a lot of travel and in-person meetings. Questions to Ask in an Interview. Instead, they meet with prospects outside the office.

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Unbounce

AUGUST 6, 2021

Conduct Customer Interviews/Surveys. Customer interviews are usually viewed as a preliminary activity. Here are a few tips to help your next interview be short and deliberate as opposed to long and aimless. It’s tempting to create surveys and interview questions centered on a product feature you think will be helpful.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

through surveys, interviews, and other Voice of Customer research. For example, a travel agency might send targeted ads featuring vacation packages to potential customers browsing travel blogs (Awareness stage). A good place to start is by creating user personas.

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