Intercom, Inc.

JULY 26, 2018

Remarkably, the team stuck around with few exceptions. One of your first hires should be someone who can nerd out on your company’s finances. A lot of companies mistakenly think that hiring leads to rapid growth. In reality, you may not see a positive return from a new hire for 12 to 18 months. Hard conversations ensued.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

In short, JTBD is a research process that helps uncover a customer’s motivation for buying your product – the “job” your product is“hired” to complete. Today, Bob is President and CEO at The Re-Wired Group , a consultancy that’s helped develop more than 3,500 products and services. This is where personas come into play.

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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. I was amazed by the app exchange.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 million in 2013 to $115.9 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. Which brings me to sales and marketing.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Content marketing can generate huge amounts of traffic, leads, and sales for your business. From the beginning, Distilled has always been focused on technical SEO, focusing on the development aspects of content marketing. 500 2013 list of fastest-growing media companies in the United States. They ranked #291 on the Inc.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Pete Crosby , Chief Revenue Officer at Ometria. Prior to Ometria, Pete has been growing SaaS revenue teams for almost 20 years. Today we’re talking about the management track, employee motivation, and the levers of sales velocity. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

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. Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

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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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

So I had this idea for Mercury in 2013, but it didn’t start until 2017. When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. You have to spend a reasonable amount of time, sometimes years, developing. I’m a big fan of keeping teams fairly lean at the start. Immad Akhund: Sure.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

For starters, the CS role has earned its rightful spot as one of a startup’s first ten hires. VC and PE firms now ask founders about the metrics owned by CS teams, specifically NRR and GRR , within the first ten minutes of conversation. You Mon: When I think about being a leader, it’s all about how do I get my team to succeed.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

For starters, the CS role has earned its rightful spot as one of a startup’s first ten hires. VC and PE firms now ask founders about the metrics owned by CS teams, specifically NRR and GRR , within the first ten minutes of conversation. You Mon: When I think about being a leader, it’s all about how do I get my team to succeed.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Hiring B2B Technical Review 52

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Anything less is failure.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Kyle made his way into the world of SaaS and sales and came to be Head of Sales at one of the fastest-growing companies in Figma. What worked?

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? I look at my experience through those companies, and I learned a lot about enterprise software sales, about buying patterns, about functions like product management and product marketing, and how they fit into a well functioning and operating company.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. Karen Page: I started my career in sales and marketing.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Jason Vandeboom is the Founder of ActiveCampaign, a sales and marketing automation platform that enables small businesses around the world to meaningfully connect and engage with their customers. Since 2013 with their transition to SaaS have grown to more than $50 million in ARR in less than five years, while maintaining profitability.

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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. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 . Excellent, great.

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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. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 . Excellent, great.

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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. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56. Excellent, great. Thank you, Brian.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What content and learnings should you have in place when you make the hire? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? Why is 12 months so crucial?

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GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. Not only does it help our clients increase conversion rates, but it also helps them drastically increase sales. . Large and small companies alike hire us because we achieve results that increase sales.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Why executive compensation should align with key business metrics for better team alignment. Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. As a key GTMfund partner, they equip sales and marketing teams with top performers. It was 2013 in New York city. So 2013 was sort of this era.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 29, 2025

He writes about product, growth, and leadership at his newsletter Product Mind and is the author of the upcoming book Building Rocketships a guide for high-growth product teams. Join ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck and top industry leaders to learn how to accelerate pipeline, boost close rates, and transform your revenue teams. Can confirm.

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AI Search AI Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 88

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Having built numerous successful remote teams, what have been Peter’s biggest learnings in what it takes to successfully build remote teams? He has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013, advised hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders. Where do many people go wrong?

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