SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Mary Nicknish, Quizlet, Sr Engineering Manager. Michael Galloway, Netflix , Senior Engineering Manager. Vincent Mo, Google, Senior Engineering Manager. Nitasha Walia, Zoom, Group Product Manager. Nandini Dutt Javagal, Facebook , Production Engineering Manager. Product Marketing Manager. and Business Dev.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Just like filing your income tax returns or hanging that state-mandated safety poster up in your break room, sales tax is a back-office pain point, not a profit center. . That makes sales tax compliance easy to ignore… until it becomes a problem. . Why is sales tax such a pain for SaaS companies? There are a few reasons.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

David Sacks – GP at Craft Ventures, and this week I thought I’d wrap it up with Part 2 stemming from a great session with Spenser Skates , CEO and CoFounder of Amplitude. Justin Stackany CEO / Startup Advisor & Former CCO Hungry generalists who are uncomfortable being bored and secretly enjoy a little chaos.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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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. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Kyle made his way into the world of SaaS and sales and came to be Head of Sales at one of the fastest-growing companies in Figma. What worked?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

It’s not all technical. Listen to Hang Black’s podcasts to learn about the future of sales enablement or how to lead with empathy. RevOps leaders are talking about trends in the market, and how the move towards RevOps will change everything from marketing to sales development to post sales. Building the right tech stack.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. Which brings me to sales and marketing.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Basecamp , a popular business management software, is the outlier success story of flat rate pricing in the SaaS world. And from that flows decisions about what and who to spend time on,” says David Heinemeier Hansson , co-founder and CTO of Basecamp. “[My A perfect example of this is the inbox management software Consider.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

To investigate, Ryan Law, former CMO and cofounder of Cobloom, performed an analysis of six recent churn reports or studies and found that there is no consensus on the average churn rate for SaaS companies. Some churn is acceptable, perhaps even necessary — especially if you’re using a more B2C-style sales approach.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 25, 2021

From simplifying your social media marketing efforts and project management to finding freelancers, each of these tools will help you get the competitive edge you’re after. When it comes to marketing, sales, and CRM software, HubSpot has become one of the top players. Are you ready to grow your business with digital marketing?

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 10, 2020

There’s less dependence on social proof in most SaaS marketing (though it becomes highly valuable again during the sales phase ), and you may find yourself targeting specific employees at your prospect company with your marketing. Let’s say your SaaS service helps investment-property owners manage their properties. Price strategy.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. The “primary risk [during pre-startup] is the failure to design a business plan and strategy that will enable the company to become profitable as it makes sales and earns revenue. Identifying a repeatable sales process (this is mission critical!). **For

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

To date, Chen has raised over $146M with Tipalti from the likes of Oren Zeev, Dan Rose, Mike Chalfen and then Greenspring, Truebridge and 01 Advisors to name a few. At ECI Telecom, Chen founded its ADSL business unit and led it from inception to $100 million in annual sales. He also was co-founder and CEO of Verix. I love that story.

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Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

And after you’ve mastered the sales process, Chargify is here to handle your recurring billing. A great example of this strategy being done right is Dropbox’s freemium offering , which allows “users to see how easy it is to back up and share their files using the Dropbox platform,” says Sujan Patel, cofounder of Right Inbox.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

I started my training on the technical side, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or engineer, in particular, thinking I wanted to do research. He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school. It’s certainly how I manage to deal with it. Do we need a sales org?” Similarly, with my VP of sales.

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Audacix

MAY 27, 2022

Most CTOs and software development managers in SaaS companies have to balance spending on cyber security solutions with their growth objectives (investors need to be kept happy, right!). If this aspect is not made clear to you during the sales process, then you have to wonder at the transparency of the the penetration testing team, no?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2018

For example, in the reference above, Apple doesn’t technically discount their technology on Cyber Monday. For example, Peter Kazanjy , Cofounder of Atrium HQ , suggests saving on commodities but splurging when there’s a superior differentiated solution. Our team is lucky enough to manage both the sales and marketing stack,” said Dyar.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Jason Vandeboom is the Founder of ActiveCampaign, a sales and marketing automation platform that enables small businesses around the world to meaningfully connect and engage with their customers. Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor.

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