SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

What should you look for in an Enterprise rep vs. a Mid-Market rep? How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Solving High Volume, Low Conversion at Lattice Dini Mehta joined Lattice at $3M in revenue when it had just 10 people in seat for Go-To-Market and 7 salespeople.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 218

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

P9 Panel on Hiring Sales Leaders — Founders Summit 2023 “You are going to fire your first sales manager!” — A lesson too many founders learn the hard way. The Founder isn’t willing to be the first salesperson Many of the best founders we work with don’t have a sales background and are either product or engineering focused.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You can find the full slide deck from David’s presentation on Slideshare. 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. Head of Product. Head of Sales. Head of Marketing. VP Product (11 Employees).

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Recruiting is easier, but the things that don’t change are customers don’t care.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Account Managers: They serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 97

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. That experience led to his bestselling book, The Sales Acceleration Formula. The framework consists of three elements: product-market fit, go-to-market fit, and growth and moat.

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Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 226

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

MARCH 24, 2020

Nothing matters but recruiting and using your personal network. Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

Sales customer insights. Let’s drill down into the market and customer insights that can really add value for salespeople, under the following sections: Qualifying characteristics: Things to look for in an organization that make it a good target. But what are these insights that will transform the conversations salespeople have?

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SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2020

That was the most over the top entrance that the sales leader for a company that moves boxes around the world has ever gotten. So we did about 442 million in sales last year. The top 25 freight forwarders combined to do 100 billion a year in sales. Obviously, all of you have found a product market fit, it sounds like.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scaling 196

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Whether it’s creating better tools to write code and test code, better tools for customers to engage with reps, better tools for sales teams to engage with their prospects, all those things are happening inside of Bill. What are your strategies for recruiting and retaining talent within your respective organizations?

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Payments Forecasting Payment Services Payment Solutions 103

User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

This segmentation helps in personalizing marketing and sales strategies effectively. Recruiting Participants for Primary Research Choosing the right participants for primary research is a crucial step in market research. These tools are essential for performing detailed and effective market research.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Competitive pressures and changing customer needs can be captured by a great marketing or product marketing lead. And the primary burden of your product and GTM execution can fall on an effective technical leader and proven sales executive. Accelerate hiring of internal recruiters.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

You guys have been through three days of presentations. Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Well, you have to build a direct sales force. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 159

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 8, 2021

Elements of Successful Global Sales Expansion. “Be So, let’s look at four keys to a successful global sales expansion. One of the first steps when you’re preparing to move into a new market is to create a cross-functional, go-to-market strategy. But as you likely know, global expansion isn’t easy. Hire the Right Leaders.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales Technical Review 82

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” I downloaded the product.

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Kellblog

JULY 17, 2022

Create a product. Get product-market fit (PMF), i.e., determine some problem you solve for some person with some product. Go sell some software to prove there’s a market. Position your product to those target segments. Want to have a distinctive brand visual territory? Go sell some software.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 127

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As for Ryan, prior to G2 he was Senior Director of Global Marketing at Hubspot where among many other achievements, he scaled HubSpot’s marketing-generated sales revenue by 330% year-over-year. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 131

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

How they came up with the idea of Brex, and product market fit. One of the things that I feel like fintech companies really struggle with is what is product market fit? Did you have a product? How do you really … because it takes a long time in fintech for product market fit. Henrique : Yeah.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As they get larger or introduce new product lines too quickly, we often go too broad with the market that we’re serving and start losing touch with the customer’s needs. In other words, the product-market fit becomes weaker for some of the target audience. The product momentum gap by Dave Martin.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 4, 2022

Role: Customer Success Manager. As a Customer Success Manager, you will be involved in all aspects of account management, training, support, driving value, and being a trusted client partner by serving as the primary contact for the onboarding of new customers, the training of platform end users, as well as post-go-live support.

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Sales Recruiting Customer Success Sales Hiring Systems Review 19

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

In a nutshell, they can give you expert opinions, analysis, and recommendations that can help ensure a more objective-based approach to grow your business and maximize sales – all at the same time. At this stage, the consultant will present their tailor-made ideas and strategies to suit your business needs in front of you and your employees.

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Consulting Sales Hiring Technical Review Sales Recruiting 132

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. Just like a merchant needs to buy products and sell them at a higher price, a SaaS business needs to acquire customers at costs that are lower than the customers' lifetime value. along the way.

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Sales Recruiting Startup Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 155

User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Stripo offers a pre-sign up interactive demo that brings prospects to their ‘Aha’ moment before they even create an account. Kommunicate drives sales-less product adoption through product experiments and tracking adoption rates with Userpilot. Source: Sked Social. It also uses progress bars and checkboxes.

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Onboarding SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 82

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Today, Zuora's Amy Konary creates a world in which subscribers are at the core, because she knows success is no longer measured simply by products sold. Plus, Recurly raises dough, Medium talks product marketing, and Beyond Pricing helps the common folk make a buck. Or channeling market insights back to impact product roadmap.

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Technical Review Sales Recruiting Airlines Subscription 40

SaaSX

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Some founders are able to launch a product and get a bit of early traction without sales or marketing. The first is if there is incredible product-market fit and some virality or network effect built into the product itself. And others recruit experienced team members who have done it before.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

When Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta asked Anthony to run marketing, Anthony he was jumping in at the deep end. Though he had experience in recruiting, sales and product, marketing was new ground for him. Identify the friction that might be keeping a potential buyer from adopting your product.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring 112

SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. I was personally responsible for my action, to any concurrent projects on the delivery side, I was responsible for managing digital marketing, recruiting. Andrew Filev. Andy Wilson.

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Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 145

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Resist the temptation to present numbers in such a way that they seem more impressive than they actually are—this will only delay the inevitable. It’s hard to gauge that early on because recruiting your first 5-10 hires inherently means leaning on your network, so the sample size is relatively small,” she continues. The problem?

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Technical Review Scale Development Team Review Software Review 73

SmartKarrot

APRIL 6, 2022

Responsible for building and delivering C-Level executive presentations, including RTBs, QBRs, and regular deep-dive sessions. Develop and action productivity and performance reporting of customer success management, individuals, and account opportunity. Effectively partner across sales, product, and marketing teams.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Customer Lifetime Value Onboarding 19

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 26, 2021

We’re confident that Intercom employees – both present and future – will see these values in themselves and the people they work with everyday. . Catherine Brodigan , Business Development Partnerships Manager, sees this value at work across the sales team. “As

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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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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. I always say kind of tele-sales are the most important form of kind of training in terms of sales.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 10, 2019

It’s easy to forget that SaaS product management is a relatively new, and still emerging, function. For proof, might I suggest the classic post Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager , which presents a very different vision for the role of product manager than most of us have today).

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