SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I started a software company in college to make it easy to update websites called Content Management Software Now, and I had this idea for Pardot, I wanted to make it easy for marketers to run campaigns online and measure their results. We raised $0 of venture capital. From a product point of view, our timing was impeccable.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

In this article we will share some enlightening Q&A with our lead investors from our seed, Series A, and Series B funding rounds. million round of financing led by Grotech Ventures in 2017. Meaningful inbound leads, even at this early stage, are often a sign that the market is hungry for the product offering.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Then trying to maintain that as we scale is always the challenge. You’re in the valley, you raise venture capital. Josh : I made probably the first 50, 60 offers in the company personally, and that does not scale. I want to come be your VP of sales and, you’re going to meet me for the first time.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

In this session, Anna and Sameer will highlight SendGrid’s journey from growth stage through acquisition and why focusing on people and culture is mission critical to success as a company goes through the scaling process. Announcer: Please welcome SendGrid CEO Sameer Dholakia and Bessemer Venture Partners Vice President Anna Khan.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 10, 2022

The double-whammy of lower-than-expected growth Even a seemingly minor underperformance of your top line can hurt your funding prospects in two ways. Second, unless you manage to adjust your costs very quickly, lower revenue growth leads to a disproportionately higher burn rate and shorter runway. But let’s dig in a bit deeper.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

We’ve gathered LatAm’s leading SaaS founders, executives, and investors – as well as a few international faces – for an unbeatable few days of knowledge and networking. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? How does David think about payback period on a per rep basis?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matt Rizzetta , founder of North 6th Agency, which is a communications and PR firm based in New York City. Years later, he’s got a thriving business that is not venture capital backed. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to get better at sales [21:37].

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Pete Kazanjy , co-founder of Atrium and author of Founding Sales. As a serial founder, Pete has built up an impressive library of knowledge on scaling businesses and optimizing sales motions. How selling as a founder will help you understand your sales motions.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. from 500 Durians, Kima Ventures, and others. It also gives recruiters a faster process through its chatbot and application management tool.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours. Once you’re selling and starting to scale and now you need a team. And in parallel we went off and build SteelBrick. And selling with passion.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix Van de Maele, Co-Founder and CEO of Collibra, will be joined by Teddie Wardi, Managing Director of Insight Partners, to unpack how he built a unicorn company from idea to conception to record growth. Teddie Wardi | Managing Director @ Insight Partners. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

So huge scale, we stop about 15 billion cyberattacks daily on behalf of those 26 million internet properties. And I think part of it is because it was the job prospects were kind of gloomy. So again, when you start a company and then now we’ve scaled it to in 2019 we did about 287 million in revenue last year.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Before LiveOffice Nick was Senior Director of Product Management @ Symantec where he led $378 MM market-leading email archiving / security businesses managing over 180 people across 3 continents. What should the optimal sales to customer success relationship look like? Managing over 180 people across three continents.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

And the very first thing that I did, like any neurotic person is I Googled corporate venture capital. They might be sales operations challenges. Or just help me figure that out as we scale. Workday has scaled, what can we learn from that? That’s how much I knew about it.

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Happily, in the past several years startups are increasingly recognizing the value of strong sales enablement and sales productivity teams. So it’s no surprise that I hear a lot about high-growth companies building onboarding programs to enable successfully scaling their sales organizations and sustain their growth.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In this session, hear from three women who founded, funded and are leading WebPT, one of the nation’s fastest-growing SaaS companies in the specialty electronic medical record sector. 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.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2019

But before I talk about what land, expand, and explode means and why it’s sort of essential, at least in in our world, I want to give you a little bit of background about the company, what we do, what size and scale we’re at. They are like Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

To kick off your growth stage and to continue powering through it, you will need to begin raising serious funds that will allow your company to grow its team, invest in product development and iteration, and scale. Chorus is a leading conversation intelligence platform for sales teams. Mature stage. Thrive TRM.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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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. Costs of goods sold are minimal for a company selling software over the Web, and costs like product development decrease as a percentage of revenue when you get to bigger scale. along the way.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In light of the sale of Buildium last month I figured now is as good of a time as any to reflect on the most important ones. This is a strategy that we’re replicating at Outseta, so far with James our lead designer. Venture capital is a tool and a commitment, not an outcome. You read that right—two!

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Why press isn’t something he stressed when scaling and neither should you. And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. For the first 10 years when we didn’t do one media interview and we got to 50 million in sales. Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see. Think about that.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. And how do you hack it? This episode is sponsored by Outgrow. Jason Lemkin: Crazy.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

On either a scale of 1 to 10 or a percentage basis, where is seed investment? And then you’re carrying the water with the founders for the next decade as a lead board member, and you don’t get a ton of help from other people. ” From a sales perspective, how is that going to change sales? You really do.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The common thread among these companies, AngelList points out, is that, while their large growth numbers and massive addressable markets made them darlings in the venture capital world, their lack of profitability devalues them in the eyes of investors on the public market. And that’s a wrap for your September 30th subscription news.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We focus on Series A, and we only make a small number of investments, probably four or five a year, precisely because like to work very closely with the companies that we invest into to really help you scale out of Europe. I work with Dawn Capital. You can really deploy and grow and hypergrowth and start really scaling up the company.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

To sum it up, I believe the winners of this “installation phase” were the companies which managed to overcome these three challenges and which have picked the right early “use case” (sales pipeline management for Salesforce, content marketing for Hubspot, HR for Workdays…). The timing aspect is crucial. No more market education.

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