SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You’ll need to hire aggressively to get to the next level and continue that rapid growth. But what roles should you hire for, and what will your org chart look like at each stage? David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2021

In this episode, David Skok , General Partner @ Matrix Partners , uncovers the crucial step missing when it comes to finding product-market fit for B2B companies, how to set-up your sales team for success early on, and what metrics really matter when it comes to a payback period. Finding the right VP of Sales can be an especially hard task.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

After raising their seed round, Nick made his first big marketing bet by hiring Ed Shelley as their Director of Content. That meant producing useful content, not thinly veiled sales pitches. Then [we did] co-marketing with Braintree, PayPal, Recurly, and Chargify.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Scalability Other Factors That Affect the Sales Multiple How to Make Your SaaS Business More Attractive and Valuable 1. Lower Churn Prepare for a Sale Where to Sell Going it Alone Through a Private Sale Working With a Broker for a Win-Win Situation. The key to a successful sale is to make sure you have healthy unit economics.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. million subscriptions transacted and Google’s marketplace has seen 3X growth in SaaS sales. Jabari Norton. Crowdstrike.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

We started out in the commercial SMB mid-market space. So much more of an inside sales mentality, hub-based selling, predominantly in North America, not really into strong relationship-based selling and the trust that he talked about. Tiago mentioned this, in terms of hiring people at the right time in the evolution of your company.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. And I think the SMB mid-market sector is actually what’s fueling this tremendous growth we’re seeing year over year. Harry Hurst: Yes, so there’s an old adage, sales overnight, brand over time.

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