Tom Tunguz

JULY 6, 2017

They are scouts, trying to match an external startup and an internal business owner in a beneficial merger. Once a business owner is interested in a potential target, the corporate development team manages the process. Does the acquisition target have a team with unique skills that would be difficult/expensive to recruit?

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Emboldened by this seeming endorsement, I dashed off what turned into a lengthy email on interviewing and recruiting, a topic about which I am passionate not because I think I am good it, but because I think I am not. Thoughts on The Recruiting Process. Remember it’s a mutual sales process. Consider a try-and-buy.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2024

They discuss Sam’s learnings at Founders Fund, what the 2024 playbook looks like, hiring and motivating sales teams, and a handful of audience questions. We were coming off an environment where startup funding was as fruitful as ever. On the sales side, people hired way too much. More salespeople do not equal more sales.

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

Startups come in all shapes and sizes on various stages of a timeline, yet it’s not surprising how many have the same questions and concerns about how to scale from x to y to z, the right time to hire and fire, and how to keep a team motivated during hard times. Q: Where Should SDRs Report — Marketing or Sales?

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 9, 2025

So read on, and hopefully, your SaaS sales journey will be less about trial and error and more about steady progress toward success. Whats important to note is that each model targets a distinct customer persona and, therefore, has a unique approach to the customer journeyfrom brand awareness to sales and, ultimately, conversion.

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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 Sales. Positions Needed: Demand Gen, Product Marketing, Sales Enablement, Events/Community.

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Kellblog

MARCH 17, 2020

Rephrasing Lewis Carroll, “if you don’t know what you’re recruiting for, any candidate looks great.” ” I liken executive recruiters to Realtors. ” That know-not-what, by the way, is that it’s for sale. Let’s switch to executive recruiting. Sound judgment and maturity.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

379: From how many reps to hire, to compensation models, here are the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales teams and how to avoid them. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. This episode is sponsored by Outgrow.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2023

He completely misunderstood the value prop of the startup. It’s so, so easy to stand out in recruiting if you’ve actually done your homework. ” — Steve Bailey, SVP Sales, EdCast (image from here ) The post How to Truly Stand Out in Any Job Interview, from SDR to COO appeared first on SaaStr.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 29, 2021

Recruiting top talent is the common denominator across all scaling startups. It’s an extremely competitive market filled with hundreds of “hot startups” calling on all of the same candidates. It’s an extremely competitive market filled with hundreds of “hot startups” calling on all of the same candidates. It’s a lot.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Jonathan Moss (EVP at Experity) showcased an Account Plan GPT that streamlines sales and marketing account research for outbound efforts. Examples of automating workflows to solve ongoing challenges: Everyone shared use cases they’re trying for sales account research and lead generation workflows. Link to GPT.

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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. And then some track record of execution either as the new startup or in the past. Dev Ittycheria : Thank you.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 29, 2019

Have you ever wondered how other sales professionals are tackling their roles? Today, we’re pulling back the curtain on the day-to-day for a sales recruiting firm owner, and for that, we talked to Amy Volas. We’re hoping MI becomes a hotbed for startups. Sales Cycle Timeline: N/A. Structuring their days?

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Kellblog

MAY 10, 2021

In this post, I’ll present what I view as the minimum sales management framework for an enterprise SaaS startup — i.e., the basics you should have covered as you seek to build and scale your sales organization [1]. Pipeline management rules, with an optional stage matrix. Management rules (e.g.,

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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. Yet in Mark’s experience working with and mentoring startups, he’s found that many entrepreneurs go with intuition over information.

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The Angel VC

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today I'd like to tell you a bit more about what we at Point Nine Capital are looking for in SaaS startups (other sectors are something for another blog post). One could almost say that CAC and CLTV are for a SaaS company what wholesale price and sales price are for a retailer. along the way.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Opening video: Hey, all these startups, they have a lot of trouble getting corporate credit cards. Anu: So, without further ado, Henrique, I know that when you first applied to YC, you actually applied with a VR startup idea, but the video showed all about credit card. Expense management was something people care about.

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Kellblog

JULY 17, 2022

In general, I think branding is a potential marketing rathole for startups, particularly early-stage ones. Some startups put the cart in front of the horse. In this post, I’ll use a six-point branding framework and share my thoughts on how each element applies (or doesn’t) to startups. For startups, fewer is better.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

We’re in the business of robots, software robots, an industry … There was a great presentation earlier, you all probably heard with the category awareness, category urgency, and I’d add one more, company urgency. We do have a network of recruiters. Bobby, tell us a little bit about UiPath. Bobby: Yes.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Lattice had a product-led growth flow on the website while the sales team was still trying to sell the PLG companies The good news is Lattice had a lot of activity and initiatives at play. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?

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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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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Talkpush is a conversational recruiting CRM that allows employers and job seekers to connect in new ways across the globe. It also gives recruiters a faster process through its chatbot and application management tool. It is a platform for inventory and order management that helps owners and distributors. Founded : 2012.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Whether you need to hire dozens of sales reps in the next few months or you’re a scrappy startup and need your first three sales hires, building a business will nearly always involve hiring for sales. According to Insightsquared, recruiting should take up to 20% of time for a C-level executive. Coachability.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Founders may reduce staff, particularly in recruiting or new projects that the company prefers not to finance. The chart above, copied from David Skok’s great SaaStr presentation , shows the unit cash flow for monthly payment plans. By collecting the cash up-front, startups neutralize this effect. Six months to ramp.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Anyone that doesn’t want to add new skills won’t work out in a startup < 200 employees or so. A VP of Sales that has only done inbound? This makes perfect sense in BigCos and with junior hires, but in start-ups, if a VP/Director/Manager is too threatened by a new hire / new role, something isn’t going to work out here.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. Turning a sales objection into a unique differentiator.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 8, 2018

In a time where buyer behavior has rendered cold calling nearly obsolete, successful sales prospecting begins with using tools like live chat and social media to build relationships. He’d go on to become the VP of Sales at Sprinklr, guiding the company through its own high growth period, before striking out on his own.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 13, 2014

By coincidence, the presentation was held in the same building I used to work in, and a wave of nostalgia swept over me. I’ll never forget the first time I met Paul Graham in that very same room right after the first Startup School. But, how should founders incorporate these ideas into their startups?

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

ServiceNow, Microsoft, and Amazon, plus nimble startups generating tens of millions in ARR with teams small enough to feed with a few pizzas all have benefitted. Recruitment has always been a competitive advantage, whether crossing the Antarctic or selling AI software. Honor & recognition in event of success. The new boast of 2025?

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

He has given his memorable presentations around the world. The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Hakim Myers , Business Recruiter at Nextdoor , where he recruits for people, finance, and legal functions for startups. Join us for a revealing conversation on sales and talent from the perspective of a recruiter in an executive search firm.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Sales recruiting is broken. The sad truth is that VP of Sales are turning over within 19 months —and that timeline is shrinking. . Not only that, the market has heated way back up and the VP of Sales is one of the most sought after roles. Image from First Round’s State of Startups Report. Therein lies the dilemma.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. This is a philosophy worthy of its own presentation.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

It’s pretty good, someone did a Tweet storm the other day on Zeb from ClickUp’s presentation at SaaStr Annual 2020. As a tiny startup who might be commercializing its first product, are there any general guidelines that you can stick to that would prevent the massive companies out there from crushing the baby?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 14, 2019

This is episode one of Scale, a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up. “What I’ve always tried to do, for example when I’m recruiting for a customer advisory council, is to think very carefully about the company’s objectives. 6 ways to create a customer-centric culture.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

What is Sales Operations? Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling. Technology.

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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 can help make the game plan for getting something done (e.g.,

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