SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. I don’t know anything about sales. More power to you.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. Hiring guide.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Then we went on to build another company called SteelBrick, another SaaS configure price quoting solution. And we’re on a webinar right now, but I think everyone now wants to do webinars because that’s the best way to connect with people at scale. It’s most severe in the SMB world.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

.” Nearly a decade and 500 episodes of the podcast later, we invited back our original SaaStr podcast host, Harry Stebbings of 20VC for a catch-up chat with Jason to discuss the world of venture today and how to scale a successful SaaS sales team from the bottom up. You never get to spend less time in sales as a SaaS CEO.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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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

MARCH 1, 2019

How does this differ when comparing enterprise to SMB? How does this differ when comparing SMB to enterprise? Is it fair to always surmise that when serving SMB one will always have a higher rate of churn? How does this differ when comparing SMB to enterprise? Should sales commission be paid on renewals?

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

especially for SMB SaaS startups. With a $60 billion market in which to grow, these companies recognize that smart use of partnership channels can help them scale up while creating a win-win-win ecosystem for the company, the partner, and the customer. Effective Scaling. Is your sales process simple and streamlined?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

In this inaugural episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Kiva Kolstein , Chief Revenue Officer at AlphaSense. . In Today’s Episode: How to map your career from individual contributor to manager. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. 3) Kiva’s sales story [3:02]. Sales Hacker Podcast—Sponsored by Node.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Learn what it takes to create your own category, achieve scale in a niche SaaS vertical and how it requires more than just discovering an unmet need. Then I went over to the sales department. They all looked at me really weird because remember, I’d never done SMB before. The first thing you bring in your playbook on sales.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Sales Stack 2021. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. Sales technology for professional sales will be more important than ever. In 2020 almost every single Sales Professional was forced inside. Same goes for Sales Professionals.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sales Stack 2020. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Next to that we'll continue to have the full list of sales tools available right here.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

How does this differ when comparing enterprise to SMB? How does this differ when comparing SMB to enterprise? Is it fair to always surmise that when serving SMB one will always have a higher rate of churn? How does this differ when comparing SMB to enterprise? Should sales commission be paid on renewals?

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OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Other businesses, like LinkedIn and Netflix, have strong histories of being producers of open-source projects, which provides a strategic recruitment and retention tool for top-tier engineering talent. Related podcast episode: How MongoDB Scaled Their Open-Source Product with a Bottom-Up and Top-Down Sales Motion.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

So most of the SaaS organizations really find it pretty difficult to scale up. Why is it very difficult to actually scale up? When organizations actually go from starting up to selling to SMBs and going up market, the pool up market is undeniable. You may actually have to pricing differentiate. Why is that the case?

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Before Sprout Social he was VP of Sales at Shoutlet, responsible for global direct and channel sales teams and developing and managing strategic relationships. What was the founding moment with Zylo?

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Get best price tickets here!!! The panelists offer their insights, which at times conflict with the viewpoints of other panelists, on hiring a cohesive team that can really scale the business. Then we needed to hire a sales guy who had experience selling to enterprise. We got the guy who ran enterprise sales at Rackspace.

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2019

249: Erica Ruliffson-Schultz has led New Relic through massive growth, scaling the company’s enterprise business 10x since she joined the business pre-IPO. Erica will share the five critical steps (and some lessons learned along the way) for scaling in the enterprise. How to transition from SMB to enterprise. Missed the session?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. Pricing? * Product roadmap?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Before that, Jeppe was the CFO @ Tradeshift where he first hand saw their scaling to 190 countries with offices in 6 different locations. How does the product build in the early days differ when building for SMB vs enterprise? Why does Jeppe believe that building for SMB makes it easier to build a great culture internally?

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