SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

How do you scale a product organization quickly? So be sure to use every comment or suggestion that comes from users of your product as stepping stones leading towards perfecting your overall strategy. 5: It’s More Than Just Product When thinking about scaling your product organization, look for three pillars. 1: Ship Fast.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

General Partner Doug Pepper and General Partner and Head of Analytics at ICONIQ Growth, Christine Edmonds, share the art and science of scaling GTM at this year’s SaaStr Annual. Because founder-led sales worked really well for most of the early stages, but you eventually start running out of juice around $15M ARR.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mark Roberge , SaaStr fan-favorite and Co-Founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital brought together some of the top CROs in SaaS during the SaaStr Annual to share some of their greatest learnings and pivotal moments leading some of the Cloud 100 SaaS companies. From a GTM execution standpoint, they weren’t focused.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO @ Stack Overflow recently shared with our community the four key pillars he feels are necessary to propel a company to scale upward. Is your product sound, and does it solve a big problem for customers, enough for you to scale? Measure leading indicators and not lagging indicators like churn.

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Predictable Revenue

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Collin Stewart sat down with John Eitel, Chief Sales Officer at Demandbase to navigate the complex terrain of entering a new market. The post Scaling the Unscalable with John Eitel appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What are the best 5 points to improve poor sales performance? Here are my 5 simplest ideas to quickly improve sales performance. Concentrate leads in those who can close. Leads are too precious. Not to save money, but to concentrate the leads you do have in those that can close them. Let them go.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2022

The ultimate success of demand generation is defined as the number of marketing qualified leads (MQL) generated, and is measured by impressions, website visits, and clicks. . But this narrow approach limits our ability to understand how to create a solid pipeline and inhibits us from understanding the end-to-end prospect journey.

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SaaStr

MAY 5, 2022

What are some of the foundational ways sales leaders can think about building their sales teams as their company continues to expand and grow? There’s no shortage of ways to tackle this challenge, but one thing is clear: build sales teams thoughtfully and intentionally. With scale, though, these priorities can change.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be. Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

And with nearly 70% of global revenue for ISVs currently derived from third-party channel sales , no other approach to distribution ensures the exposure and revenue of the channel. By doing so effectively, you can unlock a path to scaling profits. Diminishing profit margins. Three distinct stages of channel maturity.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2020

This post is part of a series leading up to SaaS Office GTM Edition on June 24 in which we’re reviewing the results of the 2020 Redpoint GTM survey. Today, we’re answering the question: how do teams grow as a startup scales? The median startup with between 1-5M in ARR will have 12 engineers, 6 in sales and 3 in marketing.

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Predictable Revenue

JANUARY 27, 2022

Mary Grothe joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how CEOs can remove friction from the outbound sales process in order to scale revenue holistically. The post How CEOs Should Improve the Buying Process to Scale Revenue appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Predictable Revenue

AUGUST 12, 2021

Nick Casale, Director of Commercial Sales at Sendoso, talks about the distinct chapters in Sendoso’s growth, the different strategies, focus, and mindsed, marked by revenue intervals of $0-1m, $1-10m interval, and $10-20m+. The post Lessons from scaling 0-1M, 1-10M, and 10-20M+ appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Naturally, demand is going to lead to a ton of supply. Think about the growth curve inflecting more at the top of the funnel with more leads. And almost all of it was lifted by better conversion rates and more leads. Will you have an overlay team that only sells the new product, or will you enable your entire sales force?

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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. A data-driven framework for scaling. Mark’s latest ebook, The Science of Scaling , outlines a precise framework for success.

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Predictable Revenue

JANUARY 11, 2024

The post Scaling from Startup to Success with Saravana Kumar appeared first on Predictable Revenue. In the latest episode of the Predictable Revenue Podcast, Colin Stewart dives into a conversation with Saravana Kumar, from Kovai.co.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2021

“My CEO Told Me To Stop Selling So Much” Recently, I met with a sales leader I’ve known for years, and he told me The Most Curious Story. The freemium ones really have no acquisition costs at this point (the main lead source is mini-brand). His SaaS CEO asked him to stop selling so much. We can’t afford it.

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2022

Q: Dear SaaStr: What are Some Common Decisions SaaS Startups Make that Hurt Their Ability to Scale? The problem here is that instead of hiring an accretive resource, you hire a cost center than can’t deliver sales/leads/upsells. Hire someone above your team members that can’t scale as soon as they stop scaling.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This year, we launched Scale , a new content strand focusing on how industry leaders are propelling their companies forward by keeping their customers front and center. . When we created Scale, we had no idea what the year would hold in store; we simply knew that investing in long-term customer relationships was the key to success.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Eran Zimman, monday.com’s co-founder and co-CEO, shares his secrets to scaling and growth in an unpredictable market. Serve customers a CRM or project management first, and as they scale and use it more, they’re exposed to more features. They kept doing it after the economy changed, and they also scaled it. It’s cheap.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2023

PST — Former VP of Customer Success and current founder and Managing Partner at Success Venture Partners, John Gleeson, shares his lessons learned scaling customer success from $1M to $300M in ARR. The framework above is a lean canvas to help you understand your customers’ needs post-sale. Renewals.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 15, 2021

SaaStr Scale 2021 is starting soon. 7:00 AM (40 MINS) – Product-led Growth: How to Execute Across the Full Funnel (and Mistakes We Made) with Reprise’s VP of Marketing and VP of Sales. 8:00 AM (50 MIN) – The Secrets to Building Your Marketing Engine To Drive Scale with Airtable CMO Archana Agrawal. LIVE TODAY!

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Everything from hiring on the GTM side to layering in a sales-led motion into PLG. Let’s dive into what’s making that hybrid model successful: PLG and Sales Led? Given this, you must understand the role that each facet of the business plays in promoting that product, from marketing and sales to customer service.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Scale-ups are exciting. Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. On top of considerable dedication, creating a scale-up requires a functional edge—a unique and unreplicable capability compared to the players in the industry.

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Predictable Revenue

MARCH 16, 2021

Scaling your business internationally is no easy feat. The post How B2B Companies Can Leverage Channel Partners To Scale Up Their Sales Internationally appeared first on Predictable Revenue. It requires a dedicated team that is in sync with each other and your customers. Here are some tips on how to do it!

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

One of the biggest things first-time founders intuit wrong is how much sales efficiency plummets … just as it is getting good. Usually, most SaaS start-ups follow a pattern where the CEO starts off doing founder-led sales. Then, after she hires a few sales reps, and makes a few mistakes. Your sales reps are closing 4.0x

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 16, 2019

As your sales organization scales up, there’s one function that becomes crucial to your ability to drive revenue efficiently – sales operations. Until Xerox created the first team in the 1970s, sales operations didn’t exist. Sales operations is a team sport. Short on time?

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Predictable Revenue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Jordan Crawford joins the Predictable Revenue podcast to discuss how to use data and research to improve your sales development prospecting process. The post How To Find Companies At Scale The Exact Moment They Need You appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2024

So just a little while back, Lenny Rachintsky had me on his hyper-popular podcast to talk about scaling sales, from the perspective of a founder who hasn’t really done sales. They really are a great checklist when you are starting to scale sales in SaaS: #1. And sales go down, not up. #2. More here. #4.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 28, 2023

Four experts from the SaaS world sit down to discuss sales tech stacks, evolving your sales team, and some common mistakes organizations make building sales teams and purchasing software. ChartMogul’s very own VP of Sales, Sara Archer heads the panel discussion.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2023

Scaling a tech startup doesn’t come easy, and when you’ve tried all the conventional SaaS advice, it might be tempting to give up. But before the years of rapid scaling, it took the company a little while to hit its stride. What Did WorkRamp Do Differently to Scale? But sometimes, the road less traveled is the path to success.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 30, 2019

Where should your sales enablement team focus their time? If the sales enablement teams had focus on the top quartile AEs and improve their performance by 20%, the company would have booked $9.3M. First, the sales enablement team has shown they can improve performance over a broader group of people. They generated 8.6M

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SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

How do you scale a company based that can be collaborative for everyone in your org — from finance to marketing? Ultimately, they developed a more hybrid sales approach because there are good parts to each experience. The post Lessons in Scaling a Low Code Platform with Airtable appeared first on SaaStr. On Category Creation.

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