Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. A career marketer’s advantage in growing holistic revenue [17:54]. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. It’s a bad look, it’s a bad way to end your relationship.

VP of Engineering 63

VP of Engineering Branding Scale Marketing 63

Baremetrics

APRIL 16, 2021

Sweat equity and credit cards, personal lines of credit, direct cash investment into the business in the form of an equity stake or a related-party loan to the company, deferring cash-pay compensation. Future capital providers love to see that you’ve invested more than your time into your endeavor. Types of Capital.

Venture Capital 66

Venture Capital Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SaaS 66

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

5 Reasons I Hate the Rule of 40 by Mikael Johnsson, SaaS Nordic While not necessarily completely useless, I would strongly argue that R40 is a metric applicable to the world of PE and public markets investing and is not a good metric for assessing the quality of venture-stage companies.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. And we thought, who better to ask than those that chose to invest in us along the way.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual. You just haven’t done it, so it’s usually a marketing issue and not an ICP or vertical issue.

Scale 203

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling VP of Engineering 203

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? People talk about B2B marketing. People talk about B2C marketing. Does product have a quota you will lose-.

Scale 46

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 46

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Do you gun straight for the glamour (and pressure) of venture capital investment? What about a venture capitalist who might be sympathetic to your mission? Going into the pursuit of funding without a plan can lead you nowhere—or, even worse, leave you saddled with a funding plan that’s bad for you and your business.

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Venture Capital Scale SaaS Benchmarks 56

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

But Buildium had found product market fit , and although I didn’t know it yet, I was stumbling into a great situation. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees. This required no additional addressable market and also helped to drive down Buildium’s churn rate. We mostly succeeded.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Join this panel of investors from Connect Ventures, Blossom Capital, Dawn Capital, The Family, and Indico Partners as they provide an overview of the current investment landscape, and discuss whether the seed stage is emerging as the new Series A. Pietro Bezza | Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures. Emilie : Okay.

New CTO 146

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 146

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* What does David believe is the crucial step missing in B2B when it comes to finding product market fit? How does David think about scaling sales teams? Number two, you have a team of people that you’ve worked with before and some of whom will come along with you. So what’s the missing step here, David?

Scale 189

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 189

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

But boy, I can tell you from all the companies I have invested and worked with that have a hardware/software component, it really actually gets brutal as you scale. Enough venture capital can certainly bridge that gap. We’ve been in the consumer market for a very long time. So that’s one question.

Scale 207

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Enterprise 207

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

An existing SaaS customer spends more, on average, than a new customer, and are more than seven times more likely to churn (leave your business) to go to a competitor because of poor customer service than they are for a better product. Venture capitalists and angel investors are not the only routes to growing your business.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In this guide we’ll show you how your business can navigate the martech landscape to build a lean, productive marketing stack, and how some of the fasted growing software companies are building theirs. What is a marketing technology stack? ABM has evolved from buzzword to a “must-have” for marketing teams today.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Technology Scale Marketing 223

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Watch our latest webinar to hear from Bigfoot Capital Founder Brian Parks, SaaSOptics CEO Tim McCormick and Techstars Partner Ari Newman as they share best practices on raising seed capital and getting to a series A round. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 .

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Watch our latest webinar to hear from Bigfoot Capital Founder Brian Parks, SaaSOptics CEO Tim McCormick and Techstars Partner Ari Newman as they share best practices on raising seed capital and getting to a series A round. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 .

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Watch our latest webinar to hear from Bigfoot Capital Founder Brian Parks, SaaSOptics CEO Tim McCormick and Techstars Partner Ari Newman as they share best practices on raising seed capital and getting to a series A round. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56. Excellent, great.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. The Role of Customer Success in… Customer Development. Stretch vs. Bad-Fit Customers. Bad Sales Handoffs Cause Customers to Ghost During Onboarding.

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’m a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, which is a venture capital firm, which was very lucky to be a part of SendGrid’s journey. We collectively as a company were fortunate in doing all those things and, boy, was it a heck of a team effort, and it was a lot of fun. It was still a ubiquitous market.

Scale 132

Scale Acquisition Scaling Sales Hiring 132