FastSpring

APRIL 24, 2025

Amber Hinds (00:36) President for WP Accessibility Day nonprofit. Since 2010, she’s been leading teams, building websites, web applications for nonprofits, K through 12, higher education, government, businesses of all sizes. Accessibility isnt just a legal requirement its a growth strategy. What was it Amber?

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Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

To uncover how today’s CS leaders are successfully building and scaling their CS organizations, Valuize’s Founder and CEO, Ross Fulton, spoke to TSIA’s Vice President, Customer Success Research, Stephen Fulkerson. When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 18, 2023

Understanding these trends and the strategies to take advantage of them applies to other engines like Bing, Naver, Baidu, Yandex, and others. What Search Engine Trends Shaped 2022? Companies that ignore marketing trends may leave thousands (or millions) of dollars on the table. A certain algorithm update doesn’t seem like a big deal.

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Trint

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In my 30 years of news reporting for ABC, CBS and CBC News I traveled to more than 40 countries, dodged bullets while reporting on wars, I interviewed prime ministers and presidents. I’d never been exposed to software developers and the mysterious world of coding. I remember saying to the team, “We just invented the future.”

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Bob is the President & CEO of The Re-Wired Group and serves as a Fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute. This week’s guest is no stranger to this podcast in fact, today’s episode will be his third time appearing as a profiled guest with us. There’s a lot of nuance in what people say and how they say it.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Rebecca has a background in astrophysics and computer science and spent many of her formative years looking at gamma-ray bursts and supernovas, but eventually, eager to get into software and product design, she moved to San Francisco. The company means a great deal to both of them. It’s all about the family setting.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Farhan Virji , Vice President of Customer Happiness at Later. We’re not exactly sure how, but yes, it’s that time of the year again. And what a year it has been! More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. And truth be told, our journey wasn’t the only one we learned from.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Jamal Reimer , Commercial Vice President at Saama and author of Mega Deal Secrets , a book about the principles that unlock the biggest deals of our career. Today on the show we’ve got Jamal Reimer, the author of Mega Deal Secrets, and a VP of enterprise sales himself.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper , an inbound conversion software that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments and instantly turn leads into qualified meetings. She had a deep understanding of their processes and pain points and knew how to build software that would help them thrive.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2019

Rob is a longtime sales veteran and is incredibly passionate about both the profession of sales but, more importantly, the importance of investing in your team through sales coaching and training. Why PDA on the sales team is a good thing. If you missed episode 51, check it out here: Approach Sales with Gap Selling w/ Keenan.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

And at a company like Sideways 6 — whose product is an idea management software to help organizations engage people and foster innovation — that emphasis on collaboration gets even louder. But the support team are responsible for first response times, for things like NPS, whereas what we’re responsible for is, ultimately, outcomes.”

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2020

Michael has 15 years of experience running global sales and product teams across multiple software and FinTech companies. Today on the show, we are incredibly excited to have Michael Coscetta. Who is Michael Coscetta and what is Compass [2:00]. The origins of Compass, how it achieved scale, and its competitive advantage [7:13].

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User Pilot

JUNE 27, 2024

The product analysis career path starts with the entry-level role of a junior or intern product analyst, which proceeds to Lead product analyst and goes as high as the Vice president of Product role. Senior product analyst : A senior product analyst develops actionable insights and strategies based on the research and analysis results.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

A Bain survey of sales operations executives, in partnership with Research Now SSI, found that only 43% of sales organizations develop plans for a recession well in advance of it. Data and analytics alone won’t get you there, but by following basic best practices, research shows you have a high chance of succeeding.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The foundation models we use today aren’t just beating humans at Jeopardy, or playing Go at a supernatural level, or powering better recommendation engines—they’re changing and creating new user behavior across art, design, games, medicine, coding, and even human relationships. Here are the top 16 things we learned. AI today 1.

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User Pilot

JUNE 30, 2024

Embarking on a career as a product analyst involves a combination of education, skills development, and practical experience. Lead Product Analyst : A lead product manager leads the product analysis efforts and monitors the research, analysis, reporting , and strategy development. Vice President of Product.

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

When it comes to enterprise software, the build vs. buy conundrum is a common one that many companies grapple with. One exec’s greatest failure: “I was seduced by a build scenario … it turned out to be a very poor decision”. Because there was commercially available software that did the same thing, more or less. “It

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. The first thing you may think, as we did, is “Does it matter? Do you really need to know what phase your company is in?”. At this point, you are trying to work out whether or not you are solving a problem. Finding channel/market fit.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 24, 2023

They invest to develop the right routines and capabilities by focusing on five themes: simplicity; automation and digitization; new ways of working; visibility; and resilience and sustainability. How some companies use this timeless tension as a catalyst for outperformance. Top-quartile companies can achieve both.

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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. SaaStr is Turning 10! That’s my background. More power to you.

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

By Geoff Roberts 20 min read Soren Ryherd is Co-Founder and President of Working Planet , a paid search agency located in Providence, Rhode Island. Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. We kicked the idea around and launched Working Planet two weeks later.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. We’re often encouraged to hide, toughen up, and bury our emotions.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual. Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

We sold software. And we’ve got this megaphone called social media, that every single customer can talk about a great product experience, and they can also talk about a bad one. The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. Seventy-five percent.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? This list is not endorsed or sponsored in any way. Books that made the cut: Are on my own bookshelf. The Transparency Sale. The Challenger Sale. Agile Selling.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There are tons of roundup articles about top women sales leaders. Most of the time, somebody does a LinkedIn search for “sales leader,” chooses the top 15 profiles with the most followers, and calls it a day. That’s not really honest, is it? What about the amazing sales leaders who aren’t well-known already? Lauren Bailey.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. It’s the leading RFP response software trusted by more than 800 high performing organizations across North America. It’s the leading RFP response software trusted by more than 800 high performing organizations across North America.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It Before seeing good success in the company.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2019

Why should engineers also be doing customer support? * Why should your engineers be heavily involved in the customer support hiring process? How can one prevent their customer support team from being a wall of protection for the product and eng team? What are the benefits of this? What do you look for in those hires?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Lauren Bailey – Founder and President of Factor 8. Lauren Bailey’s award-winning sales firm Factor 8 has been instrumental in helping sales teams with their sales and management development programs. Trish Bertuzzi is the founder of The Bridge Group that helps B2B technology companies build world-class Inside Sales teams.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As for Tamar, previously, Tamar was a Vice President at Google, holding product and engineering leadership roles on Google’s most important products, including Search, Identity, and Privacy. Prior to that, she was the Vice President of Advertising Technologies at Amazon’s A9. What questions does she ask?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

Prior to their IPO, ServiceNow raised funding from some of the best in the business, including Sequoia Capital and Greylock. As for Lara, she joined ServiceNow in 2017 and spent 3 years as Chief Strategy Officer before assuming her current role just this month. What does the role of Chief Strategy Officer really entail? What is the right balance?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 11, 2024

But when it comes to those lengthy security questionnaires, the endless back and forths between you, your security team, and the customer can often cause deals to stall out, leaving your deal at risk and dollars on the table. The key is knowing the #1 metric that will have the biggest impact on results for each rep, team, and organization.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Prior to InCountry, Peter founded six and sold 6 enterprise software companies that were acquired by Sun, Citrix, VMware, Oracle, Sprinklr and Prograph. Prior to InCountry, Peter founded six and sold 6 enterprise software companies that were acquired by Sun, Citrix, VMware, Oracle, Sprinklr and Prograph. What are the considerations? *

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