SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2021

Hmmmm … well, to me, that’s not a bad place to be once a space, a category, gets to $100m+. And at a sales perspective, they’ll move to optimizing revenue per lead, over closing every possibly lead. Harder to Recruit. You’ll have to develop a very lean sales culture. More on that here.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. I feel like the core team is generally a bunch of natural athletes. Is it a time?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Hiring a VP of Sales isn’t new, but the conversations have evolved as the world has. Jason has written about the cheat codes for hiring VPs of Sales since 2012 and realized it was worth a deeper dive. Read the Ultimate Guide to Hiring a Great VP of Sales ebook or What Makes a Great VP of Sales and How to Hire One blog post.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company.

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Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 125

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

You could watch it on YouTube or search on SaaStr on the blog about how ClickUp leveraged it. Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. That’s a great example. So, thanks man.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Lattice had a product-led growth flow on the website while the sales team was still trying to sell the PLG companies The good news is Lattice had a lot of activity and initiatives at play. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Affiliate partners write and distribute copies, create videos or blog posts, introduce the software, direct users to software company’s landing page. If sounds like this topic can help you generate more SaaS sales with less risk, we are starting! 5) Everyone minds his own business. What are and what are not SaaS affiliate programs?

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company.

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Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 111

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Co-founder and CEO at Greenhouse, Daniel Chait, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Greenhouse, a successful recruiting software company at $200M in ARR today. But on sales calls, the buyer would say the product looked amazing — and that they needed an ATS before buying Greenhouse.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 26, 2019

when interviewing for a sales position? You answered the sales interview questions in a way that made you look like a winner. In this article, we’re going to review the 27 most common sales interview questions, PLUS the types of answers your interviewer is looking for, so you can raise the bar on your interviewing skills.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Neil Patel

AUGUST 31, 2021

Content marketing strategies often include blog posts, podcast episodes, infographics, YouTube videos, downloadable PDFs, etc. For instance, Toggl, a time tracking software company frequently uploads informative blog posts and research data about productivity, work-life, and career. Content marketing isn’t limited to blog posts.

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Sales Recruiting Social Media Advertising Underperforming Technical Team 145

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. The key here is knowing what your sales model is. They love SaaS products.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

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. It was, kind of, like a developer friend who had a startup, so they saw their transactions on the terminal. Anu: And then the rest of the team? The first end team. And it’s very helpful.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview world famous sales expert, consultant, trainer, and thought leader Keenan. Why sales is contextual and how to leverage context in the right way. Why sales is contextual and how to leverage context in the right way. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 101

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers).

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. “Well, fintech might be bad in the margins for me, but I can actually profit from this so let’s embrace it.”

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 214

OpenView Labs

MARCH 15, 2019

Some of the most successful and influential SaaS companies include channel sales in their go-to-market strategy. For the uninitiated, channel sales refers to the process of partnering with third parties to get your product into the end user’s hands. Channel Sales versus Direct Sales – The Good and the Bad.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 85

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Often abbreviated to CLV or LTV, this is the amount of revenue generated by a customer as long as they have an account with your SaaS company. Your CAC is how much you spend on acquiring and onboarding a customer, and can include marketing, communications, sales, and other expenses. Customer acquisition cost.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. Average salary: $192,383/yr. Average salary: $151,254/yr.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. Here we’ve identified the 13 most essential qualities to consider when hiring a CS manager. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)? What Makes a Good Customer Success Manager?

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review 97

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Continuous discovery is the process of conducting small research activities through weekly touchpoints with customers, by the team who’s building the product. In other words, it’s a mindset of developing a cadence of having conversations with your customers and getting regular feedback from them. The product team and the trio.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. In a nutshell, they can give you expert opinions, analysis, and recommendations that can help ensure a more objective-based approach to grow your business and maximize sales – all at the same time. So what do you do? Where to Find Consultants.

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Consulting Sales Hiring Technical Review Sales Recruiting 132

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

In this mega guide, I’ll breakdown 31 different lead generation techniques you can use to supercharge your sales pipeline almost immediately. Two of which are currently sales and marketing. I’m in control of every step of the sales process – from awareness to decision making. Why am I sharing this?

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Sales Recruiting Sales Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 100

User Pilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

How should product managers develop effective product vision statements? Product vision is the long-term objective for the product and serves as the North Star for the product team. A solid product vision increases the productivity and efficiency of the product team because they understand the goal better. Book the demo

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Entertainment Development 111

User Pilot

MAY 21, 2023

In our guide, we discuss; The importance of features releases The stages of a successful release Best practices for each of these stages We also mention how Userpilot can help your product team orchestrate your feature releases. Before developing a new feature, make sure it’s in line with your product vision.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Social Media Onboarding 97

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A GTM strategy provides direction for all team members, reduces your product’s time to market, and helps you cut costs. Determine whether you’ll adopt the product-led growth strategy or the sales-led strategy. Design a launch plan before the product is ready and assign clear roles to team members.

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Strategy Sales Recruiting Scale Marketing 98

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.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 88

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. As such, they can face less competition because of the high barrier of entry that comes with developing specialist SaaS products.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

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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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 210

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They work with consulting firms, hire their own analysts, buy data management software. But the fact is that a large portion of the employees – developers, marketers, product managers (whose work depends on an intimate understanding of the customer) – rarely, if ever, interact with them.

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Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 138

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Support pain points occur when the customer support teams provide insufficient help or there aren’t enough available resources for the customer. Lack of support or poor-quality assistance from your team can lead to support pain points. These issues can include: Slow response times from your support team.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting User Experience Customer Support 98

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Actually what I found was a little disarming, a little unfortunate, because there was a lot of, I think, bad experiences in the past with corporate venture capital and with earlier stage companies or with other VCs working with CVCs as they were once called. They might be sales operations challenges. ” And not just open ended.

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Development Team Review Scale Technical Review Software Review 147

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. David Schmaier: Sure.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 215

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

We collectively as a company were fortunate in doing all those things and, boy, was it a heck of a team effort, and it was a lot of fun. We had created an incredible brand with developers, in particular, and created developer love for what we did and the product. ” I didn’t do all those things. I won’t lie.

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