Kellblog

MAY 29, 2021

Someone who, when times are tense, can work as an intermediary between the differing parties, often but certainly not always, the investors on one side and founders/management on the other. Former sales leaders often perform well in this situation [6]. Someone who pushes for standard metrics and templates.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

I mean, we’re an engineering-driven company and that’s where we love and we celebrate it, but it is so hard to compare technology between one company and another, it’s way easier to compare business metrics. And today, of course, we have a recruiting team. And so those people need managers.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

At this stage, you should be asking yourself these main questions: Am I tracking metrics and looking to optimize pricing? Chorus is a leading conversation intelligence platform for sales teams. Just when you thought recruitment was one of those fields that could never change, a SaaS company came along and changed everything.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2019

He will also provide insights on the differences between commercial and enterprise customers and the key metrics to keep an eye on as you grow your business. We’re over 600 employees, and we’re currently privately backed, and you could see the list of a lot of our venture capital backers who have some common Silicon Valley names.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

And the very first thing that I did, like any neurotic person is I Googled corporate venture capital. They might be sales operations challenges. Can we put our product on your paper and your sales team of 4,000, 5,000 people sell a product? That’s how much I knew about it. ” And not just open ended.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. And how do you hack it? This episode is sponsored by Outgrow. Jason Lemkin: Crazy.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix Van de Maele, Co-Founder and CEO of Collibra, will be joined by Teddie Wardi, Managing Director of Insight Partners, to unpack how he built a unicorn company from idea to conception to record growth. Teddie Wardi | Managing Director @ Insight Partners. We opened a small sales office in Wework. Felix : Yes.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 23, 2020

Blake Bartlett over at OpenView , the expansion-stage venture capital firm, chatted with me a bit about product-led growth. And you claim that sales should be hired last when dealing with a product-led growth initiative. In product-led growth, product leads and sales follows. How can you do better inside sales?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

To date Bob has raised over $15m with Crossbeam from friends of the show including Andy @ Uncork, Matt @ Firstmark, Bill @ First Round and Matt @ Salesforce Ventures, to name a few. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

David is also the author of foreentrepreneurs.com the must read blog in the world of SaaS metrics. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How David made his way into the world of SaaS at the age of 22. * How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps?

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The Angel VC

AUGUST 10, 2011

One could almost say that CAC and CLTV are for a SaaS company what wholesale price and sales price are for a retailer. So for a bigger SaaS player, sales and marketing costs are the driver of profitability. But at the minimum, looking at these two metrics is a great start when you as an investor evaluate a SaaS company.

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Michael Cardamone is the CEO/Managing Partner at Forum Ventures (formerly Accleprise) which is a B2B SaaS focused seed fund & pre-seed accelerator with locations in SF, NYC & Toronto. Raising money and venture capital is not for most businesses. You basically want to run it like a sales process. Show Notes.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie : The way I see it, the bar is higher because on the … because of education, there has been a metrics war. So what we see when our companies are pitching to investors is that you know what metrics investors will open the email. Everyone probably knows all the metrics that Jason talks about.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

* Nick has previously said, “Burying customer success under sales does not work.” What should the optimal sales to customer success relationship look like? What does Nick mean when he says, “Product is to customer success what marketing is to sales.” Why does this have such a high rate of failure? We actually almost went public.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Best of breed SaaS companies are also hugely data driven, relying on metrics, KPIs, OKRs and other measures to manage their businesses—tech is way ahead of many other industries in this regard, which is largely a good thing. I’d need to learn to raise capital and recruit developers. I needed a disruptive idea.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

” From a sales perspective, how is that going to change sales? The fact that a lot of our portfolio comes in enterprise, they got a lot of sales done or relationship building done around conferences whether it’s-. What if this is 36 months? What if nobody can get on a plane until summer of 2021 the earliest?”

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. Heidi Jannenga : When we’ve again, first started going out and looking for funding, everybody wants to amplify your sales strategy. The first thing you bring in your playbook on sales. We schedule a demo in the same day.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Account expansion is often a more telling metric at this stage as those companies with high-growth potential will often see off-cycle expansion just a quarter or two into a new customer subscription – the proverbial land and expand. . Interest from channel partners and sales via channel partners can be another meaningful indicator. .

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