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. Contrast that with companies that might also sell into the SMB segment of the market where the ASPs, the average deal sizes are lower. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2019

I heard things at Unleash like: “I’ve been using AI to help uncover new leads on my own from people’s out of office replies.”. And: “Our team has been A/B testing a statistically significant sample of subject lines and now we not only know which is the best, but we can tell you why…”. Last week was a little different. What’s Next?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

We’ll see more applications of AI in Customer Success, but these will mostly be behind-the-scenes. the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). As the chatbot craze subsides, I anticipate behind-the-scenes AI to become a major trend in 2019.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. If you think of this from a market size standpoint, there’s often this debate, is that good or bad?

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I And it makes up for a lot of bad product experiences, right?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

We’ll see more applications of AI in Customer Success, but these will mostly be behind-the-scenes. the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). As the chatbot craze subsides, I anticipate behind-the-scenes AI to become a major trend in 2019.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

APRIL 8, 2019

Internal Team: Hire your own Sales Development Rep (SDR) team that is 100% dedicated to outbound prospecting. Pros: No one will know your “stuff” better than internal people, it’s the best long-term solution for most companies, and begins your sales Farm Team. You build a team of four Outbound SDRs.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Product-led growth may be a bit of a buzzword, but achieving no-code growth is particularly important for SaaS companies with low ACV, freemium models, and generally those in the SMB sector. Build segments completely code-free as segmentation features aren’t very intuitive and may require additional help from a developer.

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Upscope

JANUARY 4, 2021

Intercom developed one of those typical guidance systems you see when you sign up to a new website. They want to understand the pricing, the team management options, the possible future cost and lots more. You could ask them to book a demo with your sales team and some people prefer that. Well, that's how I think of it.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Its implementation can be time-consuming and challenging for non-technical team members. Product-led growth may be a bit of a buzzword, but achieving no-code growth is particularly important for SaaS companies with low ACV, freemium models, and generally those in the SMB sector. A great alternative to Pendo and WalkMe is Userpilot.

Software Review 52

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Lessons from the Best & Worst Deals (00:05:03) To succeed in today’s rapidly changing business landscape, startups need an ultra-committed binary team, especially two co-founders with an insane level of commitment. The combination of these factors is making it more difficult for startups to succeed.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

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 got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

With a background that includes leadership roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Lenovo, Fred brings a wealth of experience in building high-performing teams and driving revenue growth. It helps me and the team be so much more productive. And I always found it, because I’d be in there with my team, an enjoyable market to cold call into.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * And even just that shift drove a lot of behavior change both with customers and internally with the teams.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. As for Andrew, he started his first software development company at the age of 18 and has been running Wrike for the last 13 years alongside advisory roles with both Ditto and Appulate.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. As for Liat, prior to Airtable, she was the Chief Revenue Officer @ Assist. Harry Stebbings: Totally.

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2025

Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin joined together for a live SaaStr Workshop Wednesday looking at what has and what hasn’t changed in 2025 in GTM in general and in the age of AI. Wiz discovered a direct correlation between territory size and productivity: the tighter the territories, the more effective their sales team became.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2025

Prior to Docusign, Rob spent over ten years at Adobe, leading the global sales and go-to-market teams for their Digital Media Business Unit and holding responsibility for over $7B in revenue. Leading a large, remote-first team. It helps me and the team be so much more productive. 55:56 – The power in simplicity.

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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2025

At the time, expansion and upsell were handled by the CS team, whose primary focus was retention and customer success, not sales. The fix: moving upsell and expansion to a dedicated sales team. By the time Levelset was acquired by Procore for $500M, they had: A well-defined SMB and mid-market sales motion. The result?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 11, 2025

The future of GTM is AI-powered. Join us and thousands of revenue leaders at ZoomInfos GTM25 virtual conference on May 7th to explore how high-performing teams are leveraging Go-to-Market Intelligence and AI to fuel their GTM strategies that help top teams crush their revenue goals. AI is your copilot, not your enemy.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 31, 2024

It helps me and the team be so much more productive. Uh, it helps me and the team be so much more productive. If anyone else wants to take back control of their inbox and empower their teams to do so as well, Check out superhuman at superhuman. And it’s such bad behavior. The number was pretty terrifying.

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