SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. Ryan Smith: So the first media interview or press release we did, we said, “Hey, we’re raising a series A round, and Julie Bort from Business Insider got on the phone and was like, “How old are you? .” Ryan Smith: Yeah.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. My role at Buildium In late 2009 the economy had tanked and I had a newly minted MBA but no real job experience.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. There’s a lot of services.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We know that this is a busy day. Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. Where 60% of the market was small businesses, you had a middle tier of medium to small size. The first thing you bring in your playbook on sales. We were profitable by 2009.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Mary Rogul , a VP Sales Consultant, who’s currently an Enterprise Sales Advisor at Crayon. Fresh out of college, Mary started out in accounting, but it didn’t take long before she began a 20-year sales career that led her through Monster.com, HubSpot, and several others.

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Outseta

AUGUST 13, 2019

A mis-hire is not only an expensive mistake , but can also represent a major setback in terms of building your product, hitting your sales number, or properly supporting your customers. The first dates back to May 2009, shortly after I graduated with a freshly minted MBA degree. It was my first VP position.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nick Worswick, Global Head of Growth for WeWork. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. billion ARR business. Showpad is the leading sales enablement platform for the modern seller. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Founded: 2009. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants.

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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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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Manohar Chapalamadugu in 2013, Agile CRM is an Indian SaaS company known for its sales and marketing solutions designed for SMBs. The company aims at providing a single platform for automated marketing, sales, and other services. Agile CRM offers lead generation, contact management, and integrated telephony services.

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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

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Tidelift has raised over $40M from some of the best in the business including Foundry Group and General Catalyst. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io

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Sales Hacker

MAY 16, 2019

In 2009, I was desperate… I had just spent six miserable months trying to become a financial advisor after my dream career of being a spy for the DoD didn’t pan out. Nothing really stood out until I stumbled across a “Director of Sales and Client Relations” role with a company called Jammony. Director of Sales and love what I do.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Founded: 2009. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants.

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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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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

To date, Eric has raised over $12m for Zylo from some of the best in the business, including Byron @ Bessemer, Salesforce, GGV, Semil @ Haystack, and the team at High Alpha. Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. What was the founding moment with Zylo?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Ellie Tamari , the VP of North American Sales at Namogoo. Today we are incredibly excited to have a recent friend, member of the Boston chapter of the Revenue Collective, and female sales leader that came to the role somewhat later in life — Ellie Tamari. What You’ll Learn.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2020

406: Kate Taylor is Head of Customer Experience at Notion, one of the fastest-growing startups of the last 5 years with over $68M in funding from some of the best in the business including Index, Daniel Gross, Elad Gil, Lachy Groom, Josh Kopelman and Aydin Senkut to name a few. What is the role of sales in a product-led growth organization?

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Michelle started the company during an economic downturn in 2009. In this talk, Michelle will share how she made her business idea come to life and some lessons learned that can help other entrepreneurs—from solving a real, meaningful problem, to communicating in a crisis, prioritizing when there’s a true lack of resources and more.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

So although I never really became a great sailer, I really love the metaphor of sailing for life and for business and I think we can have some fun with it in today’s talk, and I hope you’ll indulge me. And I’ll share with you maybe a counter intuitive example from the 2008, 2009, timeframe while I was at Google.

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