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. David Schmaier: Sure.

Payment Solutions 214

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 214

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.

Investment 111

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 111

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. We said, “Well, we think we can do that.

B2B 167

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 167

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. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to get better at sales [21:37]. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

Scale 121

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 121

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matt Cameron , Founder and Managing Partner of SaaSy Sales Management. SaaSy Sales Management runs in-person, public, and private workshops to teach go-to-market SaaS leaders how to produce the best outcome for their company and their people.

Underperforming Technical Team 89

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Technical Review 89

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

It’s tempting to drop lots of cash on PPC ads with Google or Facebook when you want to increase your sales revenue. This isn’t a difficult component of your marketing mix to develop. This might sound like a great idea, but it’s really short-sighted when developing market share. Rethink the Need for Advertising.

Strategy 141

Strategy Marketing Technical Review Social Media 141

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Exactly 10 years ago today—May 10, 2010—I slinked through office doors that opened to my first day of work at a “real job.” What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Musing after a decade spent building SaaS start-ups By Geoff Roberts 20 min read.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nick Worswick, Global Head of Growth for WeWork. How to hack your hiring process to drive scale. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Showpad is the leading sales enablement platform for the modern seller. What You’ll Learn.

Development Team Review 65

Development Team Review Scale Software Review Sales Hiring 65

User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Fortune 500 companies Laura Erdem – Senior Sales Manager at Dreamdata Else van der Berg – Interim Product Lead, Advisor and Coach Frida Ahrenby – CMO at Rillion , CMO to Watch 2024, Board Member and Tech & Start-up Advisor Oana Manolache – Founder & CEO at Sequel.io Sima Banijamali – Sr.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review CTO Coach Sales Hiring CTO Hire 105

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They work with consulting firms, hire their own analysts, buy data management software. But the fact is that a large portion of the employees – developers, marketers, product managers (whose work depends on an intimate understanding of the customer) – rarely, if ever, interact with them.

Interviewing 138

Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 138

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 19, 2022

This means that the product is doing some of the heavy lifting that used to belong to marketing and sales and giving them new areas of focus. . Because it assumes that prospective customers will only encounter the product with a sales or customer success representative alongside them. As with anything, frameworks aren’t universal.

Scale 72

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Marketing 72

Neil Patel

MARCH 30, 2021

You and your marketing team need to understand this. If you’re a blogger, freelance writer, or online business entrepreneur, you can become a sought-after copywriter when you develop your creativity and perfect your writing skills. Site speed has been a ranking factor since 2010 and it’s good for users, too.

Social Media 144

Social Media Engineering Sales Hiring Branding 144

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Maggie Hott , Director of Sales at Webflow. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. Typically, B2B issues can be more complex, require the collaboration of a lot more departments within the company, and are often in direct dialogue with the consumer, rather than a buying team or committee.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Technical Review Scale Outsourcing Services 118

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

Scale 249

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 249

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

Part-Time VPE 288

Part-Time VPE Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 288

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. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%. What works? What does not work?

Sales Hiring 259

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 259

Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

29:00 The shift from product-led to intelligence-led SaaS development. They work with startups and scaling businesses to help take HR off your plate, so you can stay focused on building product, growing revenue, and hiring great people – the go-to-market engine. I became chairman in 2010. But they took over.

AI Search 73

AI Search AI ChatGPT Software Review 73

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. Worked as an AE and then a sales manager. Decided to go to business school, did that for a little bit and then came out in management consulting, a company. So, they’re a B2B piece.

Sales Recruiting 235

Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 235

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Jos White : We were fortunate enough to lead a Series A investment into Tradeshift back in 2010, I think. Look, Uber was the bad boy brand of tech. Work smarter, not harder.

Payments 129

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 129

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Shopify again has done that from 2004 to 2010 before they started scaling [inaudible].

Scale 161

Scale Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Payment Services 161

Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

I was planning to become a war correspondent, as was my role model and inspiration Anna Politkovskaya , but when the time came and I was invited to join a group of journalists from a very reputable broadcasting team to go to Palestine in 2010, when I was still at university, unfortunately, I had to reconsider my life choices.

Interviewing 81

Interviewing Startup Technical Review Technical Advisors 81

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Ari, why won’t you give a quick overview of Techstars?

SaaS 40

SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Ari, why won’t you give a quick overview of Techstars?

SaaS 40

SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. Ari, why won’t you give a quick overview of Techstars?

SaaS 40

SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Venture Capital 40

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2022

. There were quite a few memorable scenes from The Social Network, the 2010 movie that chronicles the inception of Facebook – and the lawsuits that followed. I love media, I love content, and I love the team here. You probably will be quite bad when you start. Now we have 20 sales, 20 product, 20 growth. Just keep going.”

Venture Capital 129

Venture Capital Interviewing Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 129

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

So we’re really proud of that and our whole team is really proud of that. And one thing that’s been really cool starting the company 10 years ago in an economic downturn to today, about six months ago Matthew and I and our team took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange.

Sales Hiring 255

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 255

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. Hire people who can point those out and help you to constantly progress. Perhaps you could just give us a bit of background – why did we hire you as CEO?

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

Scale 201

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Branding 201