OpenView Labs

JANUARY 8, 2021

What’s your biggest weakness? A candidate who can’t give me a real answer may not be open to feedback or may lack the humility I want to see on my team.”. If you asked your boss, a peer and a direct report what your biggest strength and your biggest weakness are, what would each of them say?’ It’s just not productive.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A light lager usually hovers between 4% and 5%, while IPA’s and other beers will scale higher. When referring to a beer as imperial, we are referring to the alcohol content, not the empirical nature of the beverage. Armando claims he is at the intersection of product marketing, business development, operations, and growth.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 12, 2020

Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a high-velocity Sales, Marketing, or Product team without a designated operations function. Beloved by their tactical peers, operations brings needed order and logic to busy, results-oriented teams. Why You Need Operations to Scale. This is a lose-lose situation for all involved. “If

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Not only investment but a change in mindset along with continuous efforts from the whole team is required to get exponential results. While scaling Customer Success, leaders are prone to make some common mistakes based on their presumptions. Making the Customer Support team do Customer Success. Can a software developer do sales?

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2021

Although there are sometimes variations, they always boil down to the same question: “On a scale of 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend [Company] to a friend or colleague?” On top of that, we tend to remember hearing about bad experiences or bad news more so than good experiences or good news. Leadership.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2021

Deal disasters you’ll want your team to avoid. When the selling is good, it’s all about scaling, but when there’s less margin for error, it’s easier to pinpoint where your organization isn’t up to snuff and make improvements. So how can your team identify those decision-makers? How to prep and empower your team.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Which is why customer feedback is a big deal to all of our teams – it’s really integral to what we do and how we build. we’ll be answering that by chatting with the people that make it happen: the R&D team members who take your feedback and turn it into the tools that you use. Then this podcast has the answers.

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Mobile Scale Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 212

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team? I’ve spent three years deploying Gainsight. Aaron : No.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 18, 2023

Unicorn companies often need to scale quickly to meet the demands of their rapidly growing customer base. Lesson 1: Everything is about your team. Every startup needs strong team dynamics to pull through tough times. It’s all about the team 99% of the time and 1% product and process. ” – David Cancel.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 27, 2020

Whether you run a one-person sales enablement program or are part of a team, the sheer scope of the job can be overwhelming. Now here’s where it can get challenging: you serve the revenue-producing employees, sure, but you do it to help your executive team achieve their goals. I hear you. Sales enablement strategy. How do you do this?

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2021

Although there are sometimes variations, they always boil down to the same question: “On a scale of 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend [Company] to a friend or colleague?” On top of that, we tend to remember hearing about bad experiences or bad news more so than good experiences or good news. Leadership.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 30, 2017

This is a goal I share with HubSpot’s sales leadership - indeed, I’m a firm believer that shared goals are the one true way to drive alignment between teams. Here’s something that is uncommon within the world of sales enablement and learning and development (L&D). In addition to hitting quota, I also carry a revenue goal.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

She’s now a consultant helping VPs of Sales scale and build their sales teams. She’s also been a high-performing individual contributor — she was part of the team that drove a lot of growth at HubSpot as it went from small to large, and she worked under Mark Roberge. What You’ll Learn. Who is Mary Rogul. Outreach has your back.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bansal shares this and other key milestones and frameworks for company building in conversation with a16z general partner Peter Levine; enterprise deal team partner Satish Talluri (who was a director of product and growth operations there); and Sonal Chokshi. They become all about sales and learning sales and scaling sales.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

You have to be listening to customer feedback and incorporating that as you’re developing your messaging, your positioning, your product names. So, one of my personal hero stories in this is the team at Box who and answered to the question, what if you could actually know what your customer’s thinking? I see a few hands.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. These companies can scale really efficiently. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. Knowing the common pitfalls won’t stop you or your team from making them, but it will help build the most important skill any manager can have: resiliency. SaaS = Software that scales.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Wooden on Leadership. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. This one happens to be the one I’ve referred to the most. Top of Mind.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Vikas’ Journey from Sales Engineer to Managing a BD Team (22:20). Vikas’ background is sales engineering as a path into sales and revenue leadership. He leads Kustomer’s sales and customer experience departments, overseeing sales, business development, implementation, customer success, and support. Sam’s Corner (43:33).

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. I’m really honored to share this stage with some really bad ass speakers.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. We recently sat down with Maggie to chat about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Look for the team players.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. I think that’s probably the fastest we’ve ever seen a company get to that scale. They got to 100 million of ARR from 1 million in three years, which is just incredible.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The other thing we know is that customers generally don’t buy without getting a reference whether it’s a backdoor, it’s a front door reference. Being able to utilize these champions as references as well. Well then that person who was the key reference because it was a person, not the company leaves.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2020

If you missed episode 107, check it out here: 107: Origin Stories and the Core Principles of Sales Leadership with Lori Richardson. As companies adapt to this new normal, keeping your sales team moving together is more essential than ever. Record, share, review, and coach your team based on the voice of your customer.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How can leaders both be authoritative and vulnerable simultaneously?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 3, 2022

Those are resources that most sales teams do not have, and resources that most marketing teams need to protect. To meaningfully speed up your content creation process without sacrificing quality or quantity, though, you also need to look closely at how your team approached sales enablement. Develop T-shaped professionals.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. Kyle was in charge of creating the Austin, Texas sales team @ Dropbox, what were some of his biggest lessons when it comes to moving sales outside of HQ? What worked? What did not work?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Maria and Anthony present the CEO and CMO playbook of how the CEO and CMO can partner with other members of the team to grow sales and marketing. Maria : Not too bad. You see this headline here and it doesn’t sound so bad, 43 months. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Maria Pergolino | frmr.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

Learn how Pendo built a product, team, and culture in its Raleigh hometown that could scale coast-to-coast and continent-to-continent. They talked to all the customers, they did reference calls and turns out they said really, really good things about us and lo and behold it led to our series A. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. That was the start of the Month of Scale. We thought we were going to be talking about scale today, but we’re actually going to talk about having small dogs and raising dachshunds, based on what we were catching up on backstage with Claire.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Not too long ago, when Intercom turned 10 , we dedicated an entire episode to speed , or why startups should always strive to keep momentum as they scale. We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. So, naturally, we hatched a plan to hit the gas.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

And in many ways, because the reality is, when you’re running through scale like that, things are moving at a breakneck pace. And then as I mentioned, in 2005 I took on the software as a service opportunity, which was a very nascent sales team and business for Oracle at the time. And I was like, they’re the same thing.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

If you missed episode 122, check it out here: Tips for Building a Diverse Team of High-Quality Salespeople with Wesley Ulysse. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement and help carry the load to help keep your team doing what they do best, winning. We’re on iTunes.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Eghbal offers a new taxonomy of communities — including newer phenomena such as “stadiums” of open source developers, other creators, and really, influencers — who are performing their work in massive spaces where the work is public (and not necessarily participatory). But it really does just refer to the distribution side of code.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Rob Jeppsen , CEO of Xvoyant and host of the Sales Leadership Podcast. Rob is a longtime sales veteran and is incredibly passionate about both the profession of sales but, more importantly, the importance of investing in your team through sales coaching and training.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

How does Jon think about the structuring of roles and responsibilities with scale? 263: Building a company made up of distributed teams presents a plethora of complex challenges that can derail productivity and impact employee retention. How to build an engineering team. And a lot of people refer to that as revenue mix.

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