SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Nikos Moraitakis, CEO @ Workable, moderates this insightful session with Dan Adika, CEO at WalkMe; Mallun Yen, Chief Business & Product Officer at RPX Corp; Craig Walker, CEO at Dialpad; and Wade Foster, CEO @ Zapier. This is Dan, CEO of WalkMe, and Wade, CEO of Zapier, and Mallun, Chief Business Officer of RPX, and Craig from Dialpad.

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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.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations. What is a SaaS business model?

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. I’m Travis Bryant.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Centralized HQs with all the perks and amenities “under one roof” have traditionally been used as recruiting tools to attract and retain top talent. And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. We’re already in this like a new gen.” Justin Bedecarre: Right.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Over the course of that fund, I recruited in, who is effectively my co-founder, he runs Amplify with me, is Mike Dauber. Then, over the course of that fund, we had promoted up David Byer to partner and recruited Lenny Pruss away from Redpoint to join us. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. Sales enablement is easy: all you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, and do all of this with less time. We’re on iTunes.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

If you missed episode 125, check it out here: The Power of Authenticity and Emotional Intelligence in Sales with Mykal White. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound, inbound and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. We’re on iTunes.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. They’re used to validate a business plan or a hypothesis and turn them into something profitable. Intuit regularly conducts customer development interviews to test design changes and new features. Let’s dig in!

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

So if you’re a US-based startup, you might be able to shoot slightly higher ;) Unlike SaaS companies which have been around for years, B2B marketplaces are a relatively new category and not many investors have invested in them yet. As a result, we could not collect as many data points as we do for our SaaS napkin. Team ???????????

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

This all relates to a core Kellblog theme of ownership — who owns what — that I’ve explored in some of my most popular posts: What It Really Means to be a Manager, Director, or VP , which touches on the real differences between people operating at different levels. Whose Team is it Anyway? Maybe it wasn’t a great idea.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

In a market that requires companies to earn their customers’ business each and every day, it can literally make or break your entire business model. With twenty-five years in the software business, I’ve seen my share of pricing exercises. I’ve had roles in almost every function from sales to product to customer success.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

Wistia , the video software platform we know and love, reminds us that businesses have focused so much on making people aware that they exist, they’ve lost sight of what matters most?: We were just mimicking things that we thought real businesses should do.". getting people to actually like their brands. Not a lot, I’d say.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. They’re used to validate a business plan or a hypothesis and turn them into something profitable. Intuit regularly conducts customer development interviews to test design changes and new features. Let’s dig in!

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

My father was an entrepreneur, but he was building pump companies, very different businesses. And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. And my father was in pump business. This was in 1997, and I spent two years.

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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. To date, they have raised over $73M from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst and Point Nine to name a few.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. APIs has become pretty pivotal.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

To date, Karl has raised $114M with Lucidchart from some of the best in the business including K9 Ventures, Meritech, Iconiq, GV and Kickstart in Utah. How does Karl think about working with recruiters? Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? What works? What works?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. Why is this? What are the drivers of its death?

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Kellblog

MARCH 2, 2025

The last thing we needed to do was define our hiring profile by his background and tell a recruiter to go find ten more of them. What if I told you: Schmedley was hired to manage the company’s largest account. That account was originally sold by the founders. Pull out the house account from analytics.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

32:53 The rise top operators and how to recruit them. 32:53 The rise top operators and how to recruit them. So you guys are open up a new chapter down there. What did you wish more CROs, VPs of sales, your counterparts on the revenue side knew about how to communicate? 18:13 The role of cross-functional communication.

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