SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

373: Bessemer’s 5th Annual State of the Cloud Report returns for a definitive look at the cloud industry today. We want to take you through the cloud journey over the last several years. Now, the cloud index fell along with it. If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mark Roberge , SaaStr fan-favorite and Co-Founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital brought together some of the top CROs in SaaS during the SaaStr Annual to share some of their greatest learnings and pivotal moments leading some of the Cloud 100 SaaS companies. The bad news is it wasn’t driving the results they wanted.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

That was when a new vision formed beyond the physical classroom to what would later become our cloud, where we can teach anyone anywhere the digital technology skills of the future. That was in 2010, and we committed the company to go big with this cloud-based SaaS business model that would allow us to reach individuals anywhere in the world.

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B2B B2C Scale New CTO 167

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. One of the most popular sessions from SaaStr Annual, this presentation will provides an in-depth look at the cloud computing industry across Europe and globally. Want to see more content like this?

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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. Coupa CEO, Rob Bernshteyn, and SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin, will discuss how the Cloud has changed in 2020.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 211

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

A fun story is that I met Sameer about five years ago at a cloud conference. This was anyone from a marketing analyst at a small startup, to a junior analyst at my firm, to a cloud CEO like him. 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.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 1, 2022

Like many people with leadership aspirations, Sharon saw the vice president title as her dream designation: “I knew that a VP role would be harder to attain because there are fewer of them within a company structure.”. Having realized her long-term career goal, Sharon was on cloud nine. What is imposter syndrome?

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

Great core/founding team. Thus, there is a good chance one or all of the founding team will be around, and in influential positions, for a long time. Bad startups are feature addicts who pile feature upon feature atop a deteriorating architecture, creating an Augean Stables of technical debt. Startups are about people.

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Underperforming Technical Team Startup Software Technical Cofounder 83

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams.

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Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team AI Search 156

BetterCloud

MARCH 17, 2025

Shadow AI, aka the unsanctioned artificial intelligence based applications that are in your tech stack, is often adopted by individual teams or employees for perceived productivity gains. Its important to decide which employees in each department will take ownership and handle the line items for their team and manage everything.

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Technical Review Strategy Marketplace as a Service SaaS 52

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The best sales conferences enrich your team, build knowledge, and offer plenty of networking opportunities (and fun)! Bad sales conferences just feel like a huge waste of time away from you prospects. AA-ISP Leadership Summit. What they’re saying: “ What a great week it’s been at the Leadership Summit! TOPO Sales Summit.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

From there, he helped scale a team of 150 at AdRoll, before becoming CEO and President at TalkIQ, which was acquired by Dialpad. How to develop your frontline managers [15:54]. Take control with the DocuSign agreement cloud, a suite of tools that automates sales contracts and quotes,all right in your CRM. Hire for values [7:23].

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AI Search AI Sales Hiring Scale 98

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 205

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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Outreach allows you to commit to accurate sales forecasting, replace manual processes with real-time guidance and unlock actionable consumer intelligence that guides you and your team to win more often. I’ve seen a lot of SaaS market growth from the days when Larry Ellison said the cloud was like fiction. Look at your brand.

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Branding Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 104

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. How to build a winning sales team. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. We can see how many appointments that my team has had, how many emails they’ve sent out.

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Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 112

Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

You need to have a strategic approach that includes identifying your market fit, developing appropriate positioning and marketing strategies, and measuring performance. Develop Marketing and Sales Strategies Marketing strategy 1. You have a highly skilled and competent team that keeps coming up with new product ideas.

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Strategy Scale Payment Features Software Review 104

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The keys to great leadership [18:24]. How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. Modern sales teams, winning deals using 6sense.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Review 115

Scytale

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Evolving Role and Responsibilities of a CISO The CISO’s primary responsibilities include: Developing and implementing enterprise-wide information security strategies and policies. The CISO coordinates with technical teams to contain breaches and prevent future attacks. This includes compliance with regulations like the GDPR.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team compliance Automotive 52

Scytale

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Evolving Role and Responsibilities of a CISO The CISO’s primary responsibilities include: Developing and implementing enterprise-wide information security strategies and policies. The CISO coordinates with technical teams to contain breaches and prevent future attacks. This includes compliance with regulations like the GDPR.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team compliance Automotive 52

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In this conversation recorded at ELC 2023, Segment’s former CRO Joe Morrissey and former chief product development officer Tido Carriero discuss how they turned sales-product tension into a successful $3.2B The problem is the sales team. The sales team don’t know how to sell the product. It’s a familiar story.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Underperforming Technical Team 96

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

So it’s a good number, especially unique for cloud companies. I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. So too late, far too bad. We had goldfish representing … yeah, really bad.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 158

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me.

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Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Culture helps a company define itself, attract the right team members and customers, and differentiate in the marketplace. It’s the “why” behind the mission and the glue that holds everyone together in good times and bad. Every day, our teams are sending signals out, internally and externally,” Kristin said.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 6, 2020

Scott brings over 25 years of leadership experience, and a proven track record for driving innovation, market adoption, and hyper-growth to his role at DocuSign. What the agreement cloud is. What’s the agreement cloud? [8:13]. What’s the agreement cloud? [8:13]. But what is the agreement cloud? What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Justin helped build the sales team in ZocDoc. It’s all about how to build a great culture, how to think about incentivizing a team, how to help pull out a quota if you’re going to miss the number, and some creative things you can do to get there. Today on the show, we’ve got Justin Welsh.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 24, 2023

They invest to develop the right routines and capabilities by focusing on five themes: simplicity; automation and digitization; new ways of working; visibility; and resilience and sustainability. Although TSR growth varies by industry, we see the same link between productivity leadership and high TSR across industries. Visibility.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

She’s now a consultant helping VPs of Sales scale and build their sales teams. She’s also been a high-performing individual contributor — she was part of the team that drove a lot of growth at HubSpot as it went from small to large, and she worked under Mark Roberge. What You’ll Learn. Who is Mary Rogul. One of them’s brand new.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Sales 54

ChurnZero

APRIL 1, 2022

Having realized her long-term goal, Sharon was on cloud nine. An absence of diverse leadership often creates a sense of alienation. Ive led major changes to improve things for our customers before, and I will work to earn the trust of this team. Acknowledge not only mistakes, but also wins and opportunities to develop.

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Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Onboarding 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It’s going to change how everyone thinks about cloud and SaaS for ever. 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. Our developers want to develop products that everyone’s going to use.

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Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 156

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Pat heads up heading up sales, marketing, and business development. He spent many years building and scaling large and small teams and companies. Pat has also been on the early leadership teams of more than a half dozen successful internet advertising and marketing startups. One team to own the data.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. It’s a bad look, it’s a bad way to end your relationship. And a lot of that early founding team came from ExactTarget lineage.

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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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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 88

BetterCloud

JANUARY 9, 2019

You will better understand success by being able to identify failure: Figure 1 – The lone IT professional, after being told that the budget is too small for more security people on their team. If security is on your mind only, you will fail no matter how great you are or your team is. Doing security by yourself is failure.

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Underperforming Technical Team DevOps as a Service Software Review Scale 40

OpenView Labs

MAY 6, 2021

If you’re active on LinkedIn and you’re in a leadership role, I’ll bet you’ve been getting connection requests like these. There are a number of browser plugins or cloud-based applications that automate activity on LinkedIn. For now, let’s explore some reasons why this is a really bad idea: 1. It’s spammy.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Outsourced Development AI Search 59

Scytale

JANUARY 31, 2024

Given the ubiquity of cloud – hosted applications in the contemporary IT landscape, adherence to industry standards such as SOC 2 is imperative. Develop a robust incident response plan to address and mitigate any identified security issues promptly. Let’s understand what each step under the SOC 2 checklist entails.

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