SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Henrique: And we grew that company for a while, and sold it in September 2016, and came to college. And can you talk a little bit about touching on the hiring point, because you did say that you focused a lot on talent, and recruiting. And we had a lot of experience with payments, and engineering, but with U.S. Anu: Got it.

Sales Hiring 218

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 218

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2018

First, most founders don’t have a background in either sales or marketing, and even though they’re told to “ start marketing the day you start coding ”, they just don’t know where to begin, or they’re incredibly overconfident. At that point, they hire someone to run marketing, but leave that person to their own devices.

Product Marketing 223

Product Marketing Strategy Marketing Sales Recruiting 223

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Gaetan Gachet | SVP of Sales @Algolia. It’s an honor to be here with this mythical creature, this sales leader that goes from zero to 50 million in the same job. He has a whole French sales team and office that only speaks English in Paris.

Scale 150

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 150

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

We decided 2016 was going to be the year of invention. We had three big projects, and at the end of 2016 , we looked back and realized that we had shipped, with double the staff, 50 things. In 2016, big things. Because it was so bad, we – the leadership team of the product in engineering – started to swing the pendulum.

Sales Hiring 160

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Engineering 160

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.

Scale 118

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 118

SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2020

Wade Foster: It used to be engineers did all this work. And so I think there’s more we can do to abstract away parts of that so you’re run of the mill sales rep or your run of the mill recruiter or whoever can just sort of step in and be like, “Automation is part of my tool set. Wade Foster: Yeah.

Cloud 232

Cloud Engineering Sales Recruiting Scale 232

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

Scale 113

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 113

yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2022: Sales Tools. Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

Scale 88

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 88

OpenView Labs

JUNE 3, 2021

Note: This post was originally published in January 2016 and was updated in June 2021. Engineering manages IT. Hiring managers take on HR responsibilities. For example, only Finance manages the books, and only Engineering actually writes the code for the product. CEOs “hit the streets” and sell.

Product Marketing 93

Product Marketing Sales Hiring Startup Scale 93

yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Sales Stack 2021. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. Sales technology for professional sales will be more important than ever. In 2020 almost every single Sales Professional was forced inside. Same goes for Sales Professionals.

Scale 106

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 106

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

SALES STACK 2020. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Next to that we'll continue to have the full list of sales tools available right here.

Scale 103

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sales Stack 2020. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. W elcome to "Sales Stack 2020 - Sales Tools for Professional Sales". Next to that we'll continue to have the full list of sales tools available right here.

Scale 103

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

SALES STACK 2019 SALES TOOLS FOR. PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

Scale 100

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

Sofia Varga, Director of Recruiting. Alan Alda, Manager of Recruitment Marketing. Linda Hale, HR Manager (East). Eli Whitney, HR Manager (Central). Jennifer Cartwright, HR Manager (West). Here are a few examples keeping with our recruiting example: . Executive Sponsor: . Primary Contact(s): .

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Management 98

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams. We were very, very focused on that fit – to be even more specific, on growing sales teams for high-tech products. That was essentially the Boomi sales team, so I could personally relate to them. Rick : That shift came about around 2016. We started to realize two things.

Scale 156

Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team AI Search 156

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 26, 2021

Catherine Brodigan , Business Development Partnerships Manager, sees this value at work across the sales team. “As As we’ve grown from a tiny team when I joined in 2016 to the 160 or so folks we have today, there’s still this incredible empathy, kindness, and desire to lift each other up and see each other succeed.”.

Sales Hiring 138

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Customer Support Engineering 138

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Users are recruiting your product to reach a specific outcome in their lives — whether that’s catching a flight to reunite with their families or using a productivity app to meet a deadline and impress their boss. We had them on the podcast way back in 2016, and they’ve even been a guest contributor to our book Intercom on Onboarding.

Onboarding 254

Onboarding Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 254

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. For the first 10 years when we didn’t do one media interview and we got to 50 million in sales. You could recruit, you could do fundraising rounds, you could do all this stuff and then you would have arrived. Think about that.

Acquisition 164

Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 164

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

Customer sentiment, intention, and level of trust can be surfaced and incorporated into more predictive customer health scores while providing valuable insights and feedback to CSMs and account managers. We believe we will see more teams hiring a CS enablement manager and more budget allocated towards training & development.

Trends 98

Trends Customer Success Sales Hiring Artificial Intelligence 98

Brian Balfour

OCTOBER 13, 2017

This post is the HubSpot Sales case study that illustrates the concepts of the 4-Fits Framework, a 5 post series in which I explain the four frameworks you need to align to grow to a $100M+ company. In this post, I will walk you through how we laid the foundation for the HubSpot Sales product and set it on course towards that $100M goal.

Sales Recruiting 111

Sales Recruiting Software Review Growth Hacking Retention 111

yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for Professional Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 52

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. But what is this?

Payment Solutions 218

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 218

SaaStr

APRIL 11, 2019

Think of the first MP3 player that wasn’t an iPod or think of the first search engine that wasn’t Google. ” Or, “You are the next generation account management software.” ” And for us, the piece that was missing was that there was a job that existed called the customer success manager.

Scale 153

Scale Customer Success Artificial Intelligence Sales Recruiting 153

Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 9, 2023

The game was a large commercial assassins creed revelations pc game, outperforming the sales of its predecessors. An Assassin recruit who has reached the highest possible rank can be assigned to serve as the “Den Master” for any of the Assassin-controlled towers in Constantinople.

Software Review 40

Software Review Sales Recruiting Systems Review Transportation 40

Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 9, 2023

The game was a large commercial assassins creed revelations pc game, outperforming the sales of its predecessors. An Assassin recruit who has reached the highest possible rank can be assigned to serve as the “Den Master” for any of the Assassin-controlled towers in Constantinople.

Software Review 40

Software Review Sales Recruiting Systems Review Transportation 40

Ramp Ventures

JANUARY 2, 2017

CMI’s 2016 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Survey found that 88% of B2B companies are using content marketing. Sales funnel content. Once you’ve got a link-focused content strategy underway, it would be wise to look at creating content that targets visitors at each stage of the sales funnel. Because it works.

Content Marketing 40

Content Marketing Outsourcing Services Marketing Social Media 40

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.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

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.

Scale 137

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 137

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Leading commerce platform Shopify helps merchants set up and manage their business and stores across various sales channels.

SaaS Payments 271

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

Founded in 2016, Coya is Europe’s number one internet insurance company. We know it for its award-winning Android and iOS POS (point of sale) systems to the food and catering industries. Besides providing tools for HR management and direct payroll, Personio helps businesses in recruiting processes. Wandelbots.

Technical Review 10

Technical Review SaaS Point of Sale Banking 10

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron : 2016. Jason : 2016. 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. Jason : All right.

Sales Hiring 246

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 246

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

Below you can watch me deliver that talk in London’s Roundhouse, or read on for a written account. The term “product-first” is implicitly set up in contrast to what came before, which were mostly sales-driven companies. Google’s search engine is a similar story. We’ve spent nothing on sales and marketing.”

Marketing 191

Marketing Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Innovation 191

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

Below you can watch me deliver that talk in London’s Roundhouse, or read on for a written account. The term “product-first” is implicitly set up in contrast to what came before, which were mostly sales-driven companies. Google’s search engine is a similar story. We’ve spent nothing on sales and marketing.”

Marketing 165

Marketing Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Innovation 165

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

Prior to Work-Bench, Jessica was a Learning and Development Manager at Cisco Systems, where she worked with the Engineering organization on Agile transformation, innovation and culture. Where does Jessica find managers and founders do pipe reviews wrong? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts?

Sales Recruiting 241

Sales Recruiting Technical Review Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 241

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 252

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 252

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

From the very first episode with Tiago Paiva, Founder, and CEO of now $10B Talkdesk to Mark Roberge, our most downloaded podcast episode of all time , our podcast has been host to the very best in SaaS since 2016. Yesterday Harry Stebbings and I caught up for an upcoming podcast on sales, startups, venture, and more.

Scale 243

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scaling 243

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Leading commerce platform Shopify helps merchants set up and manage their business and stores across various sales channels.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100