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. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

If you’re running a smaller digital business, you may find it challenging to hire great talent. If you’re facing challenges winning the best candidates for your roles, or if you have a small number of roles and every hire really matters, then don’t miss this episode of Growth Stage. X sales force, X meta.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. Should your sales engineers also implement the software? Should your sales engineers also implement the software? How easy is it to implement your product?

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 121

Sales Hacker

APRIL 25, 2019

Early in my career, I saw firsthand how a $20M funded company went from startup to NASDAQ IPO to being delisted in the span of three years due to frivolous spending (but that’s a story for another day). My cost-conscious lens (plus our proven outbound sales program) has served my company, Leadium, well. Software costs.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Sales Outsourcing Outsourced Development 97

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

They supply their customers with a full marketing suite and customer data software for thousands of SMB, e-commerce businesses. There wasn’t software that did this back in the 2010s when Klaviyo was founded. And we actually asked them, like, well, what software matters, and they all said marketing.

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Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

” Mark’s been a startup CEO twice, selling two companies in strategic acquisitions, and he’s run worldwide sales and channels a few times. Mark’s a seasoned startup executive, he’s go-to-market oriented, and he has some large-company chops that he developed earlier in his career.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack. Finally, we share several customer reviews and case studies for each solution. Sign up for a free account or request a demo today to see how FastSpring can help you expand globally.

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Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Software Review 147

FastSpring

APRIL 24, 2025

Since 2010, she’s been leading teams, building websites, web applications for nonprofits, K through 12, higher education, government, businesses of all sizes. I’m sure people that are listening have maybe a personal answer in their mind or some particular thing that, yeah, it’s color coding on websites or something.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

And it’s not just for CROs; if you’re a marketer, SDR, sales rep, manager, VP, or CRO, this one’s for you. Engagement : The process (or rather processes) that result in a qualified sales pipeline. Due to the nature of the role, RevOps has to work with multiple stakeholders. Simple right? Execute FAST.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Systems Review Engineering 137

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Demand generation (demandgen), responsible in a word, for generating opportunities (oppties) to feed sales [2]. Two important notes: There is an optional fourth part, sales development , i.e., managing the team of sales development reps (SDRs) who convert MQLs into stage-1 oppties.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. The dark blue bar here is cloud as a percentage of worldwide software spend.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Kathy Lord, SVP of Sage People explains how asking hard questions, embracing feedback and making personal connections with your customers can move the sales journey from prospect to champion. So most of my career was over the last 10 years was that Sage Intacct and we sold accounting software. Want to see more content like this?

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Everyone I work with uses document management software, and you should too. Whether you are trying to go green, stay organized, build great looking newsletters, or meet the most stringent regulations, document management software can make a hard process much easier. The Top 5 Options for Document Management Software.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services Software Review Software 145

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. 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.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers).

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 160

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MAY 22, 2017

I lead sales enablement for HubSpot out of Dublin, Ireland and my role encompasses sales content, sales training, deal support and sales productivity. That’s where sales enablement comes in. But how can sales enablement be packaged?

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Marketplace as a Service Sales Enablement Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 112

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Short on time?

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 3, 2022

Content is the cornerstone of sales enablement, but creating it is a massive headache. Those are resources that most sales teams do not have, and resources that most marketing teams need to protect. What is Agile sales enablement? There is a pressure on teams to move quickly and scale early.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Introduction: Why Choosing the Right CRM Matters Choosing the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform can make or break your businesss growth trajectory. A powerful CRM helps organize customer data, streamline sales pipelines, and automate marketing ultimately boosting revenue. Lets dive in!

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2021

When you first get started, effectively any hosting setup will do the trick: your application is small, you have relatively few customers, and perhaps (depending on your sales process) expectations around performance and reliability are a bit lower during the beta phase. It distracts the team from writing new features + fixing bugs.

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AWS DevOps as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review 115

User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Want to learn more?

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2020

That could be through freelancing, or by hiring another firm (like a call center) to handle segments of your business. Use outsourcing as a tool to drive sales and revenue. According to Wasp Barcode Technologies, the five biggest challenges facing small businesses center around employee management and profit.

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Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Sales Hiring Technical Review 141

SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Flexible integration with any other software, hardware or business workflow applications. Not only for the product side, but for the sales and marketing side. Eric Yuan : However, transitioning from engineer to engineer manager probably, is straightforward. While we do not have a product, why do we need to have sales?

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Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire Marketing 141

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

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SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 150

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics.

Scale 115

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Review 115

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Sales onboarding – every company does it, but few do it as well as they’d like. According to a report from The Sales Management Association, 62% of companies consider themselves to be ineffective at onboarding. Taking a Page from Agile Software Development. This need for speed gave way to agile development methods.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In fact, with so many variables involved in a deal—from unique buyer objectives, to your timing in a deal relative to your competitors— building playbooks for your sales teams is more like writing a “ Choose Your Own Adventure ” novel. In sales, it’s not much different. No guarantees there.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Scale Software Review compliance Technical Review 211

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

It sounds minor or technical, but if you want to due diligence on a human being, I get to do it a few 100 times a year. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. I think everyone needs some stability, whether it’s good, bad, or ugly or in the middle to survive. I’m here.” Aileen Lee: Yeah.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 196

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

SaaS Payments 144

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The good news is data labeling is scalable when you work with the right data labeling software. Data labeling is the process of analyzing raw data and labeling it to provide context to machine learning software, algorithms, and end-users. The task is usually completed by a combination of software, processes, and people.

Scale 125

Scale Outsourcing Services Artificial Intelligence Scaling 125

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. This is just as bad as not having a website in the first place. Most good support teams will even have full backups of your site that they can restore if worse comes to worst.

Underperforming Technical Team 145

Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Marketplace as a Service Software Review 145

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

They told us they would do tons of all this pricing stuff and help us with hiring and introduce us to customers, and all of these things. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more. I have a team of people who work on numbers. But it worked.

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Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 108

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A methodology in five simple steps I learned how to run forecast and pipeline reviews, first, by distilling what my sales managers did when I was a sales rep and, then, building my own systems as a sales leader at Revinate, at Framer, and advising a number of B2B SaaS companies. Why forecasting?

Development Team Review 59

Development Team Review Systems Review Forecasting Software Review 59

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Scalability Other Factors That Affect the Sales Multiple How to Make Your SaaS Business More Attractive and Valuable 1. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. 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.

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