Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2019

How to build both SMB and Enterprise-grade CS teams and what tools to use to empower them. He’s responsible for leading all aspects of the company’s customer facing technical resources across sales, engineering, technical account management, professional services, and support engineering. Growing the Customer Base.

VP of Engineering 69

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review 69

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

Hi there, we’re Point Nine Capital a VC firm focused on SaaS and marketplaces. Almost every step requires paperwork and postal service, many entail physical presence. Bold Prediction : Every European Series A VC firm will have at least one investment in manufacturing by the end of 2019. but it’s a tradition now).

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Technical Review Marketplace as a Service Software Review Venture Capital 40

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Maria : Yeah, I think, coming from a marketing side and thinking about that as a marketer, marketing is all about investments. There’s none of the brands that you’ve seen get to an IPO or continue on to a Fortune 500 company that is not making some significant investments there. Aaron : And they just have to do it.

Sales Hiring 205

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 205

SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

And I think that’s the opposite of what some people think of when they think of sales or sales leadership. There was the product and the service, which I just completely believed in. What VC wants to truly invest in a founder who is quote unquote, hustling 24/7. I was really happy to get that from him.

Scale 139

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Interviewing 139

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

Scale 158

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Branding 158

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

especially for SMB SaaS startups. These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. These partners resell your product and benefit from offering ongoing services, usually on a retainer basis. Will your leadership team prioritize and scope the program across the organization?

Outsourcing Services 131

Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

What we try to do is this integration between two or three companies to be so flawless that for the customer seems like it’s only one application, but you are taking advantage of the best E-mail service, the best chat service, the best voice service. Doing a product for SMB is fairly simple. Tiago Paiva: Oh yeah.

Sales Hiring 260

Sales Hiring SMB Scale Cloud 260

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. We would generate 10x what we invested into that based on those people. How does Ryan think about the relationship between the two?

Sales Hiring 131

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 131

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

We saw McDonald’s, they started separating their arches and really trying to do public service announcements around social distancing. We certainly can’t do thought leadership round tables in person, and we can’t do the sporting events. It’s a competitive marketplace. And we did that. Let’s see.

Travel 175

Travel Marketing Scale Outsourcing Services 175

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The litmus test is if you’ve created a marketplace: are people actually building on your product because there’s value that you’ve created, or is it just a nifty integration? The upside of having this big two-sided marketplace and extending your product into tons of different products with an API is quite large. But are they platforms?

Underperforming Technical Team 170

Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The best products, services, and ideas are nothing without a way to turn them into currency, and sellers are a big part of making commerce happen. Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. Invest in your development internally and externally. Anita Nielsen. Hang Black.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: So for those that aren’t familiar with Salesforce Ventures, we are the strategic investment arm for Salesforce. I was an account executive covering financial services vertical and covering in New York. It’s the SMB space. And so, I remember being in New York and the whole market was melting down.

Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 159

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business. ZeroBounce - Award-Winning Email Validation Service. Currenty investing time in our Drift setup. Marketing Enablement & Automation We Use.

Scale 111

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 111

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

We’ve got everything from self-service all the way up to the enterprise. So how we accomplish something at the enterprise level in a one to few or a one-to-one or a one to few is very different to how you would accomplish it in a self service model. But as we look at our market, it’s not all created equal. Jay Snyder: 100%.

Payment Methods 197

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 197

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Karen made her way into the world of SaaS as one of the first employees at Box and then how that led to her transition to the world of investing with B Capital. How does Karen think her mindset will shift when making the move from angel to now institutionally investing with B Capital?

Scale 173

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Investment Sales Hiring 173

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

She likes to invest across consumer, B2B saas, and technology infrastructure companies at the earliest stages. In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. ” Is it SMB or is it Enterprise? Then, you can decide, is it a high volume play in the SMB?

Sales Hiring 141

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 141

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

To keep growing at the same growth rate requires a significant investment in the acquisition efforts as depicted in figure 2. Previously they may have only spent $1,000 when buying a SaaS service online. Now the services have matured where buyers are spending 20x in online services is relatively comfortable.

Scale 86

Scale Growth Hacking Scaling Sales Hiring 86

SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2019

The biggest companies on earth spend billions of dollars on this service no one’s ever heard of called freight forwarding and they all hate their vendors. So we never should have even been a, we’re in multi sided marketplace. And the reality is we’re in a service business. So we have this enormous market.

Scale 100

Scale Sales Hiring Systems Review Marketplace as a Service 100

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. We started out in the commercial SMB mid-market space. And I think it’s especially true of SaaS companies, when you start to think about the fact that everything is a service.

Scale 172

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 172