SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

I held off for 6+ years and 3000+ Quora answers on writing a post on Board Meetings. Because every investor in the world writes lengthy posts on How to Have a Great Board Meeting. How to Have a Great Pre-Board Meeting. How to Have a Great Board Meeting Week. You may not care about board meetings. This is key.

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Predictable Revenue

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Josh Garrison joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to share his best sales development prospecting tips and how to book a meeting through email outreach. The post How to Book a Meeting Over Email appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Predictable Revenue

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The post The 4 Cold Call Scripts That Actually Book Meetings appeared first on Predictable Revenue. Cold calling scripts approved by the most successful and reputable B2B sales leaders and practitioners in the sales development industry.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

So it’s the season where there are … some tough board meetings. Then, expect a tougher board meeting than you’d like. Even if that’s all board meetings were for 2021 and into early 2022. Before the board meeting, or any other group meeting. At least before the Tough Board Meetings.

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SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2022

Now that board meetings are on Zoom, There’s something to be said for inviting every 5%+ shareholder to join, at least as informal observer, at least for a while. Invite more of your investors, not fewer, to your board meetings. And actually have those board meetings, more often. — Jason BeKind Lemkin #????????????

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The Moz Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

Ready to meet them? Thank you to everyone who submitted pitches to speak at MozCon! After much deliberation, we settled on two community speakers that we’re confident are going to be a great addition to the MozCon Stage.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2020

With less than 30 days to the big event, we’re reintroducing one of our most popular programs in a completely digital format— Meet a VC. This super-popular program is a hit every Annual and gives Founders and CEOs the chance to have 1:1, virtual meetings with a hand-picked group of elite investors. to keep the meetings focused.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2021

This is the #1 place to meet a fellow Founder, revenue leader, VC or even your next hire. PS – here’s a sneak peek at some of the mentors you’ll meet: Head of Product at VMWare. 3 – Where the Cloud Meets, Beneath the Clouds! This year, we’ll have more networking than before. Unsubscribe.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

We are also doing weekly meetings, are they asking for too much of my time? Some rough rules: For every 1% of a company an investor owns, they get one meeting / Zoom a year until you are at scale. This includes both board meetings and informal coffee meetings. Yes, that’s too much. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2022

The post Meet the SaaStr Europa 2022 Speakers! Rebecca Feiten, Senior Director, Strategic Sales @ Outreach. Natasha Evans, Director of Customer Success, EMEA @ Salesloft. Ollie Sharpe, VP of Revenue, EMEA @ Salesloft. See you there! Grab $50 off tickets here! appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2022

Q: Dear SaaStr: What are Some Rookie Mistakes Founders Make During VC Meetings? Some things may be more appropriate for a second meeting, but make sure whatever top level issues there are, come up in the beginning. << To get a VC to want to invest no later than 20 minutes into the first meeting. But not all. You have to.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

Today, I had my first sales call in 13 months where the prospect was in person in the room (all of us were on Zoom)… The 5 minutes at the start of the meeting to get the projector connected made me so nostalgic!!!! An open question for a while during the Covid Era was would we really ever get back to in-person sales meetings ?

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SaaStr

MARCH 14, 2021

The post Meet 9,000 other SaaS Founders at the FREE SaaStr University! Want to connect with almost 9,000 other SaaS founders? Want to take 4+ FREE courses on scaling SaaS and raising venture capital? Then check out the latest at SaaStr University !! Sign up HERE !! appeared first on SaaStr.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 6, 2020

If you’ve been a group meeting for brainstorming, you’ll identify with the three problems reasearchers identified with in-person brainstorms: Only one person can speak at a time. And you’ll resonate with the frustration of this meeting format. In 2017, I wrote the post Managers Must be Insane to Brainstorm in Groups.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Dear SaaStr: What Happens When You Can’t Meet The Expectations From the Valuation of Your VC Financing? A related post here: The $100,000,000 Valuation: The Last Stop Before “IPO or Bust” (overpriced image from here ) The post Dear SaaStr: What Happens When You Can’t Meet The Expectations From the Valuation of Your VC Financing?

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Predictable Revenue

AUGUST 1, 2022

Learn our top tips for booking more meetings and hiring sales development reps. The post Booking Sales Meetings: Everything You Need To Know appeared first on Predictable Revenue. Appointment setting is the best way to scale your outbound sales efforts.

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SaaStr

MAY 26, 2023

Meet a VC is back! This is your chance to meet with some of the most sought-after VC firms in-person during SaaStr Europa. Open exclusively to attending post-revenue Founders and CEOs, our SaaStr Europa Meet a VC program matches our attendees with top-tier VCs. Get your first (or next) round of funding at SaaStr Europa.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 11, 2021

% of new VPs that succeed that “just need a little more time” to: * close more deals * generate more pipe * meet customers * understand the product better * etc. Now first, this trick requires you have your VPs present at board meetings. And of course, that you have board or at least investor meetings at all. More on that here.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Apply for a mentorship meeting here. Startup party: RSVP for our exclusive evening party to close the week on November 3rd in partnership with AWS and Aircall. 1:1 mentorship with Des Traynor: Want to connect for a mentorship talk with our co-founder?

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SaaStr

MAY 5, 2022

The post Braindates Are Open for SaaStr Europa: Meet Your Mentors appeared first on SaaStr. Happy Brain-dating! See you at SaaStr Europa. And thanks to our partners at Payhawk for helping bring Braindates to SaaStr Europa. .

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2022

Q: Dear SaaStr: What are the Signs of an Entrepreneur Who is Over-Prepared for Meetings with Investors? The post Dear SaaStr: What are the Signs of an Entrepreneur Who is Over-Prepared for Meetings with Investors? A deck is great. And a detailed operating plan in a Google Sheet or Excel is an A. note: an updated SaaStr Classic answer).

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 14, 2020

Written materials transform board meetings. Board meetings with written materials are better. There is no guessing what’s interesting to talk about because most of these meetings start with questions. But after one or two meetings, the team finds its groove, it’s hard to look back. No one reads slides aloud.

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Trint

JANUARY 20, 2021

Calendars booked out with Zoom calls and virtual team meetings featuring your boss’ cat is the new norm. Here are our top five reasons why you should record your meeting minutes. Whether you're on Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet, Trint’s integrations let you quickly pull in your meetings for fast transcripts.

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Predictable Revenue

MARCH 19, 2020

The post How to turn 100 LinkedIn profiles into 10 meetings with Tom Abbott appeared first on Predictable Revenue. That source is outbound sales. Tom talks about how he sources and closes leads on every salesperson’s favorite social media site, LinkedIn.

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IT World

JULY 21, 2022

Meetings don't work. Or, at least, the majority of staff meetings are time-wasting, productivity-killing, creativity-stifling products of wishful or delusional thinking. Before the pandemic and its mass movement to remote and hybrid work, meetings were already problematic. We've all seen how meetings fail.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

If you submit to “Meet A VC” by midnight September 19, we will ensure your Company is shown to investors. After “Founder Confidential” ends, emerging SaaS startups network in person with leading VCs in our CoWorking area as part of our “ Meet A VC ” program. . The opportunity to meet VCs was invaluable. Active Capital.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2020

In a conversation with Greg Holmes, the former CSO of Zoom, Jim discusses the 11% meeting volume drop in March, which has stabilized at those lower levels in April. But as of early April, a roughly equal number of calls request longer than 30 day payment terms. Curiously, these volume changes are not uniform across the country.

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IT World

JANUARY 14, 2022

Over the past year or so, Microsoft has added a host of new capabilities to Teams, its chat and videoconferencing hub, focused on improving video meetings with co-workers and other colleagues. Breakout rooms are basically mini-meeting rooms that are associated with a larger meeting. Breakout rooms.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Working remotely, we have reduced meeting length by about 15% and increased our total time at work by 2 hours per day. The Economist ran a story about the future of work this week. We might declare we have found an extra 10 hours in the workweek from nothing. This productivity boost might seem universally positive, but there’s a catch.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

There are many competing visions for how we’ll build the Metaverse: a persistent, … The post Meet Me in the Metaverse appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Social Strikes Back is a series exploring the next generation of social networks and how they’re shaping the future of consumer tech.

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