SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

And the end of 2012, or beginning of 2013, we actually met, and decided to start one called Pagar.me Henrique: So, we applied to YC with this VR idea, which, looking back, it was pretty bad, but at the time we thought it was great. Anu: And then the rest of the team? The first end team. Henrique: So, one, you need a team.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. The good thing is … this is the good news, bad news. Want to see more content like this?

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I’ve had the pleasure of speaking at TCV’s Engage Summit the past two years. The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. But similar to Pinterest, it started with one acquisition and engagement loop driving its growth.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. Well, to most of you, that may not seem crazy today.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s important to focus on those users who become customers from the beginning because their usage of the product, and where they fall off in this user journey, will help you prioritize where your team spends the most time and resources to convert at the highest rate. . This is covered in-depth in the Developer Go-To-Market-Playbook. .

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When Aileen founded Cowboy Ventures in 2012… Aileen Lee: 12, yep. Jason Lemkin: 2012. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. I think everyone needs some stability, whether it’s good, bad, or ugly or in the middle to survive. Jason Lemkin: Together as a team, right? Aileen Lee: Yeah.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

Showpad’s all-in-one platform empowers sales and marketing teams to engage buyers through industry leading training and coaching software and innovative content and engagement solutions. They are the leading sales engagement platform. I would call it sort of class new market development. Nick Worswick : Yes.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Sales development representative roles have grown 5.7X since 2012, according to LinkedIn’s State of Sales report. If you’re one of them, that’s both good news and bad: It means sales is growing, but you’re going to have a lot of competition getting started. What experience do they have leading teams to the finish line?

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Brian Balfour

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Andy Carvell joined SoundCloud in 2012, when the company was just over 80 employees and 10 million monthly active users. During Andy’s four and a half years at SoundCloud, he worked on a range of mobile growth topics, and in a bunch of different team configurations. But, retention can always be better. “If

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Further, where across the board, engagement with media channels continues to fall, one category bucks the trend?—?smartphones. We believe that there’s always room to improve professionally, so we’ve also included resources for Professional development, such as meetups and blogs. smartphones. trillion hours by 2021.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2019

When it comes to platform strategy, Ceci’s experience is unparalleled, having worked at Box as part of their founding platform team before later joining Slack in 2015 to found the platform marketing team there. If there’s customer adoption , developers generally will come. Measuring platform success is complicated.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Really excited for engaging discussion on something I’m passionate about, the future of the customer. Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? We’ve shared the transcript of episode 362 below.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Eight years ago, we founded the company, September 2012. So we had a deep experience in the e-commerce space and it just, in 2012, it felt right. In 2012, Wall Street didn’t really know how to value SaaS companies. In 2012, no one took Amazon seriously, really. I say most recently, but quite a few years ago, now.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. This photo’s from 2012, and I joined, as I said, in 2014.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2017

New engagement channels are propping up. In a practical sense, your sales process serves as a model by which any member of your sales team can replicate success in finding prospects, solving customer problems, closing deals, performing upsells, and bolstering client loyalty. . Engaging the right ones is another. Prospecting.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Of course, the second sponsor of the Sales Hacker podcast, I’m sure you know who they are, it’s the company, it’s the unicorn, the billion-dollar valuation company that is Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Manager of Enterprise Account Development at Lucidchart. Building out a new enterprise development team, and scaling it from 3 to 14 reps over a one-year period. . I want to lead and inspire larger teams while being a successful mother. . Moving to London to kick-start sales for the local division of Amazon in 2012.

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2019

Currently growing 100% year over year, working with companies to un-silo their operations and create one strategic revenue ops team to support their Go To Market strategy. Why does Jason believe that we have to remove handoffs between go to market teams? How should North Star’s be segregated between GTM teams and biz ops teams?

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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. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital?

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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. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital?

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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. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital?

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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. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded. If not now, then when?”

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. Before Slack, Rachel spent four years at LinkedIn, where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. And so that’s when I went to Slack to start their growth marketing team.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. Planning for long-term means a lot of implications for how employees live and work, how they work together, and engagement and collaboration is now a preference. Aaron Levie: Everybody had their digital team.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The company went public in 2009 and was acquired by Yahoo in 2012 for $270m, a 50% premium on existing share price. Who should be brought into the meeting other than the sales team? The company went public in 2009, and was acquired by Yahoo in 2012, for $270 million, a 50% premium on the existing share price.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. In the early days, partnerships can be a distraction, how does Bob determine between right and wrong when determining whether to engage in a partnership? 298: Startup success is not exclusive to Silicon Valley.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Martin brings a wealth of experience in building and scaling sales teams, developing effective go-to-market strategies, and navigating the challenges of startup growth. 35:30) Optimal team structures for SMB sales organizations. (52:25) 52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46)

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