SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. They wanted to sell the Amplitude product, I forget, to sales or somebody else, and that was their mistake. Jason Lemkin: I think I noticed a pattern, and I wrote it up a couple of years ago and refreshed it, and then I’ll add a new anecdote.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript). Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. 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. So you were the first sales hire.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. But also, as a sole founder, you also can make a decision in a very timely manner. Not only for the product side, but for the sales and marketing side. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? And second, just last week he started an incredibly exciting new opportunity with his new company. Where do founders make mistakes in negotiation?

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

.” Twenty years ago, COOs accounted for 76% of CEO promotions in the S&P 500. In 2020, that figure dropped by half to 38%. Today, division leaders who run market-facing GTM functions account for 36% of CEO appointments. More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. Want to see more content like this? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Maggie Hott , Director of Sales at Webflow. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And then there was this great workplace experience of 2020, which we’re still living now. So now we’re in this, like you call it, the great workplace experiment of 2020, where we’re forced to be a hundred percent remote. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And at that same time I met two Stanford computer science students. .”

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

is a much worthier investment for your 2020. The Athletic , a subscription-based digital sports media company, has officially raised $50 million in a Series D funding round led by Bedrock Capital, now apparently valued at $500 million after this new raise. Brand awareness is just one piece of a much bigger puzzle. Here's the data.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. And then the sale will commence as far as the people and this was, we were multiple millions of dollars of revenue until I took the first call. That means lots and lots of hiring and I don’t want to say firing, we did fire anyone, but people get reshuffled, you know? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. It allows companies to prove their real-time security posture just about any day of the year, so it accelerates their sales cycles and security reviews.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? Because, on the one hand it’s exciting, and what I see a lot today is founders often bond with a new partner. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner?

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. But they are actually accompanying us in the sales cycle and it’s certainly something that’s accelerated our time-to-market but also our success as well.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Sometimes – a lot less: While in 2023 women in CEO roles earned “only” $14,000 less than men on average, in 2020 the gap was over $45,000 (nearly a third -31% – less!). It was an iPad interactive brochure and sales tool for sales centres. Sima Banijamali – Sr. I knew nothing about tech.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He also founded SaaScribe to help founders, customer success teams , sales executives, marketing professionals, and growth hackers. He is the managing director at Foundry Group, and his insights on technology startups are useful. He is number 88 on The Midas List: Top Tech Investors 2020. Asia Orangio. Brian Halligan.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Sales enablement is easy.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Listen to Hang Black’s podcasts to learn about the future of sales enablement or how to lead with empathy. RevOps leaders are talking about trends in the market, and how the move towards RevOps will change everything from marketing to sales development to post sales. Fixing visibility issues in your sales org.

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