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. Four, people in the sale? Kristen Habacht: Well, there’s none in sales.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be. By the time he left to join Google Cloud as EMEA VP of Operations and Customer Growth, Salesforce had around 17 billion dollars in revenue and almost 50,000 employees.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Thats why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups. Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools. Youre not alone.

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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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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Craig : Putting the management team together was really around stages of the company. At the beginning, my vice presidents were engineering, and product, and a designer. Making sure we have product market fit was effectively number one. Build the product. Get it into the market. Start getting some feedback.

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User Pilot

JULY 22, 2023

In this guide, we’re going to show you how a land and expand strategy can help you grow your revenue generation from existing clients by deploying a foot-in-the-door approach with your sales team! You need a clear target market, proper positioning, product-market fit, and the right sales process for a land and expand strategy to work.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I mean, it’s what you see on the BBP cloud on the left. Aileen Lee: But these are also super… I mean, you were talking about growth stage companies where they’ve got strong product market fit. Aileen Lee: But I think, yeah, for … I mean, the cloud index is not even post-revenue. Jason Lemkin: Yes.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. Boomi is a cloud integration company that I worked on and built for 10 years and was acquired by Dell in 2010. How did you all get to product-market fit ?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. Talkdesk is a cloud call center platform for enterprise companies. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales. And then on competencies.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Pete Kazanjy , co-founder of Atrium and author of Founding Sales. As a serial founder, Pete has built up an impressive library of knowledge on scaling businesses and optimizing sales motions. How selling as a founder will help you understand your sales motions.

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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 were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps. We were split up into groups.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. Any company that leases its software through a central, cloud-based system can be said to be a SaaS company. Chorus is a leading conversation intelligence platform for sales teams.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 4, 2022

Role: Customer Success Manager. As a Customer Success Manager, you will be involved in all aspects of account management, training, support, driving value, and being a trusted client partner by serving as the primary contact for the onboarding of new customers, the training of platform end users, as well as post-go-live support.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The backup of 2020 was great, 2021 comes in and somehow we have 600 unicorns and everyone can burn 500 million a year or have huge sales teams. But the meta point is this, if you’re recruiting in 2024, beware of the “Lost Generation” candidate and persona you may come across. It’s part of the job now.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Kraig Swensrud is the Founder & CEO of Qualified where he provides crucial experience and entrepreneurial energy to create the future of enterprise sales tech. You got sales reps. That was my, really my big start in cloud and SaaS.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

Second, product market fit. If you have not set your workforce up to deal with this and you are not online and in the cloud and all the things that we need as employees in a business, you’re making that transformation now. And he said, “Product and engineering are going to build this weekend. Meagen, sales.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Amy Frampton , Head of Marketing at BambooHR and 15-year marketing veteran. Join us for a hilarious conversation about what’s changed in marketing lately, brushing shoulders with Marshawn Lynch, poaching SDRs and AEs from sales, and tips for employer branding.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

If you can create a scenario where others are building on top of your product – and therefore evolving it in ways you may not have the resources to do yourself – your offering suddenly becomes even more valuable to your customers. Here, Ceci unpacks her thinking for Intercom’s Group Product Marketing Manager, Jasmine Jaume.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

You have actually found great product market fit and you are looking to go upstream. But it’s also undeniable that going up market means your company will get pulled. You may actually need to build a sales team that can serve up market. So the path of market is treacherous. Congratulations.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Competitive pressures and changing customer needs can be captured by a great marketing or product marketing lead. And the primary burden of your product and GTM execution can fall on an effective technical leader and proven sales executive. Accelerate hiring of internal recruiters.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

What time frame from SAL to closed lead suggests product market fit? What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * Where should the responsibility for upsell lie, customer success or sales? Should sales commission be paid on renewals? What’s your thinking on that?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

What time frame from SAL to closed lead suggests product market fit? What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? * Where should the responsibility for upsell lie, customer success or sales? Should sales commission be paid on renewals? Should sales commission be paid on renewals?

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

After finding funding and product/market fit, your next steps as a founder in the hypergrowth phase can determine the future of your company. Harry Hurst: So throughout my teens and early 20s, I built companies ranging from fashion distribution, all the way to headhunting and recruitment. Harry Stebbings of Stride.VC

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A Smart Bear

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Marketing isn’t scheduling a launch and recruiting isn’t timing the start-dates of the next 50 hires in customer service and sales. — optimize myopically for speed-to-market. First, Recruiting is casting about for potential candidates. Things like YouTube, Cloud, and self-driving cars.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

Yes, there is a board of directors but the board/CEO relationship is not the same as the manager/employee relationship with which corporate execs are so familiar. Yes, boards provide strategic and financial input, support, guidance, help with recruiting, and occasionally help with sales, but boards don’t run companies.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. As a key GTMfund partner, they equip sales and marketing teams with top performers. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* What does David believe is the crucial step missing in B2B when it comes to finding product market fit? How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps?

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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. Now Andrew is the founder and CEO at Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business.

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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? Bob Moore: And I was t nerdy engineer in college, so getting the opportunity to have to pitch, it’s really a sales job at the end of the day. Or hey, we missed our sales numbers last quarter, it’s got to be a management issue.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

While competitors invested in huge sales teams, Atlassian actually restricted direct customer interaction. By forcing self-service, they inadvertently created stronger customer champions who had to deeply learn the product themselves. This created a natural product-market fit validation system for their marketplace.

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