Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.

Blockchain 143

Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 143

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In this episode, Bob and I chat about his new book Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress. If you’re short on time, here’s some quick takeaways: Bob has worked on over 3,500 products. What is it about sales that makes academia hesitant to teach it? Welcome to the show, Bob.

Sales Hiring 265

Sales Hiring Sales VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team 265

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

The age-old sales funnel has worked fine for decades…until now. Why is the sales funnel alone, no longer an appropriate way of thinking about customers? Brian Halligan: Whether we all like it or not, trust in sales and marketing is at an all-time low. We’re going to hire tele-sales reps who are going to cold call.

Scale 48

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 48

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Product marketing is a nuanced, fast-paced, and multi-faceted endeavor. In a competitive environment with no guarantees, marketing experimentation serves as a surefire way to maximize reach, optimize conversions, and improve the user experience. Why you should run marketing experiments?

Marketing 91

Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding Metrics 91

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

How does this hire correlate to your hiring in sales enablement? How does Mike make sales data really actionable within the company? What is the right way to structure their sales pipeline? What can be done to incentivize sales to be accurate in their sales data? * What are the different CRO profiles Mike has seen?

Sales Hiring 176

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Systems Review 176

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. In light of the sale of Buildium last month I figured now is as good of a time as any to reflect on the most important ones.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? I look at my experience through those companies, and I learned a lot about enterprise software sales, about buying patterns, about functions like product management and product marketing, and how they fit into a well functioning and operating company.

SaaS Payments 261

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 261

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In a conversation on The BUILD Podcast with Blake Bartlett , Hubert talked about how it’s bad for business to create a situation in which only the founder is allowed to be brilliant. Rather than creating a bottleneck, it’s much smarter to inspire each member of a team to find their own brilliance. Five or six UX interviews won’t do it.

Scale 76

Scale Underperforming Technical Team B2C Engineering 76

OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

“I’ve talked to countless entrepreneurs who are anxious about the next step—first seed round, hiring a team, landing a board member, etc.,” That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. As you start to develop a go-to-market strategy, “make sure to think through the process holistically,” says Jay.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 52

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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. Injecting cash into a venture without a clear strategy, revenue, or proven product-market fit can lead to all sorts of problems: Investor expectations can become overwhelming.

Venture Capital 56

Venture Capital Scale SaaS Benchmarks 56

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. Chorus is a leading conversation intelligence platform for sales teams. Growth stage.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

First, it used to be predominantly sales-driven. Sales teams were primarily responsible for driving revenue through outbound calls. As such, adopting a one-size-fits-all acquisition strategy was not as effective as segmenting the audience based on their buying intent. It creates company-wide alignment across teams?—?from

Strategy 40

Strategy Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Acquisition 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 . Excellent, great.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 . Excellent, great.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56. Excellent, great. Thank you, Brian.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. The Role of Customer Success in… Customer Development. Sales Process Engagement. Customer Success-driven Sales. Designing a Sales-to-CSM Handoff that Actually Works. Sales is Part of Customer Success. Orchestrating Sales and Customer Success Alignment.

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136