SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. Want to see more content like this?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. However, in a SaaS model , the customer acquisition team can grow revenue to $1M in year 1. If the same team keeps performing at the same growth it will achieve $2M in year 2 – whilst the renewals come in at 100%.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. But as a company scales and brings in new accounts, CSMs can start to feel like Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory—the customers keep rolling along faster than CSMs can properly manage them! Lighten the load CSM’s normally carry.

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Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. 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

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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. We recently sat down with Maggie to chat about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Look for the team players.

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Aaron Beashel

OCTOBER 31, 2016

During his time at Salesforce, Alex was fortunate enough to work directly with Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff, and together they utilised a framework Benioff himself devised called the V2MOM to align and manage the Service Cloud team. It was game-changing for the company, and for each team that implemented it.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Henrique: And we grew that company for a while, and sold it in September 2016, and came to college. 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.

Sales Hiring 218

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In just over a year , they (along with the rest of Zola’s marketing team) managed to: Build and launch 300+ custom landing pages for Zola’s specific audience segments. We were doing smaller-scale things, like changing a hero image, changing button copy or button color, stuff like that.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

We had them on the podcast way back in 2016, and they’ve even been a guest contributor to our book Intercom on Onboarding. Samuel Hulick: I actually started as a full stack developer. Back in those days, and this was like over 10 years ago, the developer would get a Photoshop file that had all of the different interface elements.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees. They were clearly property management and software development, and as someone that was hired to accelerate Buildium’s growth I immediately saw countless opportunities to grow the company by moving into new markets. We mostly succeeded. I’m proud of all that.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

As the world’s population grows – and that population migrates online – bots are increasingly being used to address the challenge of helping businesses scale. “There are all these prospective customers, but businesses can’t scale at the same rate, so they need automation” Paul: Right. Chatbots shouldn’t just ape web forms.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We talk a lot about scaling when there’s VC funding involved, but bootstrapping is a whole other game. Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper , an inbound conversion software that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments and instantly turn leads into qualified meetings.

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VP of Engineering Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 118

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect, every time, enabling personalization at scale, previously unthinkable. Sam Jacobs: Have you developed a process to answer that question of should you hire, should you fire? We’re in a bad economic environment now.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 19, 2021

After college, Ashley joined Twilio and played a key role in helping the company reach, engage, and convert its developer audience. She’s an expert on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to building successful relationships with developer audiences, software marketing teams, and technical CEOs. You can’t lie.”.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 27, 2020

This phenomenon is commonly seen in a few markets: productivity tools (think Calendly , Notion , Zapier or Airtable ) and developer tools (think Datadog , Twilio or Atlassian). Ideally, a cybersecurity tool runs quietly in the background, covering for the CISO and ensuring there are no weaknesses. View this post on Instagram.

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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. These companies can scale really efficiently. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In this guide, our team at Neil Patel Digital has outlined some vital tips to identify and hire specialized marketing agencies, as well as help you understand how these agencies fare when compared to an end-to-end agency. Still, End-to-End Marketing Agencies Aren’t a Bad Choice Either. Scalability on Demand. Expertise and Experience.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale.

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Payments Scale Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 63

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Second, you’ll be able to achieve these tasks with an economy of scale. The problem isn’t just in the amount of time an in-house team has to dedicate to the work. This lack of resources is a major struggle for teams with in-house F&A staff, according to Consero. Website Design and Maintenance.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Why press isn’t something he stressed when scaling and neither should you. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? We called ourselves a team of four, actually, who operate and make decisions, and it’s just how we rolled. We had to go through and stand this up in an efficient way that worked in scale.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

In a recent Act-On and Demand Metric study completed in Q2 of 2016, less than 20 percent of mid-size B2B companies relied on solely inbound or outbound strategies; 84 percent of respondents used some mix of both. Our SDR team strived to contact 40 new accounts/week with highly personalized 1-1 messaging. TechnologyAdvice. What’s next?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

He even invented the design sprint at Google, helping teams discover how to be purposeful and effective. Here are 5 quick takeaways: Design sprints are powerful because they make teams focus on one thing every day. Teams should reconsider how they manage emails and meetings. I wrote a book called Sprint in 2016.

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Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Scale Technology 128

Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing.

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Payments Technology Scale Revenue 53

User Pilot

JANUARY 12, 2024

It helps product managers motivate teams to action, impress stakeholders, and quickly derive actionable insights. Dual-axis charts combine two different charts to show the relationship between data sets of different scales. Highlighting correlation across scales. Analyzing team performances. A linear scatter plot.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy. Funneling time, energy, and resources into developing a stellar customer acquisition strategy is only helpful if it’s designed with your target market in mind.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. I think that’s probably the fastest we’ve ever seen a company get to that scale. They got to 100 million of ARR from 1 million in three years, which is just incredible.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

In a recent Act-On and Demand Metric study completed in Q2 of 2016, less than 20 percent of mid-size B2B companies relied on solely inbound or outbound strategies; 84 percent of respondents used some mix of both. Our SDR team strived to contact 40 new accounts/week with highly personalized 1-1 messaging. TechnologyAdvice. What’s next?

Scale 52

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Baremetrics

APRIL 16, 2021

This capital should be used for product development and the people required to help you build it. For top-tier programs ( YC , Techstars , 500 Startups ), you need to be a top 10% company, fitting a near-term venture capital profile across your team, your product/market and your traction. Debt capital gets a bad name.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Trends which MAY impact your Sales Stack in 2023 Sales is in constant development. What customers want is help solving problems. Being a B2B buyer isn't easy.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 13, 2021

To scale efficiently and effectively, expansion-stage companies need to focus their efforts on a specific subset of customers who are most similar to their best current customers, not a broad universe of potential customers. Customer segmentation is the way. What is customer segmentation and why does it matter?

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

Floyd points out that by 1969 Sears was the largest retailer in the world, but 2016 marked “the sixth year of a $10.4 At least at some small scale. NPS and raising NPS scores usually falls to your customer success team, but in times of stalled growth it is important for customer success to start at the executive level.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Wistia is certainly not the first tech company to suffer from over-scaling, but their story is both unique and illuminating for a number of reasons. and paid it out to the Founders and early team members.

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yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Trends which MAY impact your Sales Stack in 2023 Sales is in constant development. What customers want is help solving problems. Being a B2B buyer isn't easy.

Scale 52

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling and VC funding. And honestly, right now literally is the worst time to raise VC funding I can think of since 2016. But it sounds like the bad news is you’ve got a limited runway. Jason Lemkin: Today certainly is an interesting week.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron : 2016. Jason : 2016. If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team? Jason : All right.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 246

SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Freemium can help software companies gain users quickly—but what happens when it’s time to scale back or up? Join Joaquim Lecha, CEO at Typeform, and Christoph Janz, Managing Partner at Point Nine, as they delve into freemium at scale. We give them the superpowers of the developer and the designer. Joaquim Lecha | CEO @Typeform.

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