SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

Today, Veeva is at $45B Cloud juggernaut dominating pharma and life science Cloud applications. If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! We’re building the industry cloud for life sciences, so our customers are people like Pfizer and Novartis, etc., Get tickets here.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Sequoia Capital’s India arm put together a terrific summary of all their learnings about SaaS and Cloud from SaaStr Annual this year. They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. 22 Things We Learned at SaaStr 2022. Silicon Valley has a deep talent bench.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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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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Sales Hacker

APRIL 25, 2019

My cost-conscious lens (plus our proven outbound sales program) has served my company, Leadium, well. I am passionate about helping small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) accelerate their growth with outbound sales. The SMB Decision: In-House vs. Outsourced Sales Development. The Four Costs of In-House Sales Development.

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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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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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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

As they scaled, they radically changed how they did sales. They moved to a more traditional SaaS inside sales model, and they started shipping out these hardware devices, and only 30% to 40% of the customers would end up paying for them. And we’re about to add basically a team collaboration tier on top of the product.

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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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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

That’s not a bad start. We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. We work with mostly modern teams. We hadn’t actually formally committed ourselves to having more of an enterprise sales organization.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Introduction: Why Choosing the Right CRM Matters Choosing the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform can make or break your businesss growth trajectory. A powerful CRM helps organize customer data, streamline sales pipelines, and automate marketing ultimately boosting revenue. Lets dive in!

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Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2022

Celine, who transitioned from agency sales to SaaS, is the Vice President of Boardable. Join us for a great conversation about transitioning in sales and technology selling. If you missed episode 210, check it out here: Increasing Revenue on Cloud Marketplaces with Tim Hudson of Tackle. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Dan O’Connell, Chief Strategy Officer at Dialpad. From there, he helped scale a team of 150 at AdRoll, before becoming CEO and President at TalkIQ, which was acquired by Dialpad. How AI & ML are impacting the future of sales. Hiring for values. We’re on iTunes.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

Advertising costs Cost of your marketing team Cost of your sales team Creative costs Technical costs Publishing costs Production costs Inventory upkeep. While these instances are rare, they may cloud the relationship when calculating the CAC. The first company (Example 1) has a poor metric.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I wanted to have another fun, informal conversation with, one of, I think, the most insightful and smartest cloud investors, Sunil Dhaliwal. Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. GP and founder of Amplify Partners. That’s true.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. This is just as bad as not having a website in the first place. Most good support teams will even have full backups of your site that they can restore if worse comes to worst.

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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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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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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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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insight into where growth comes from and how to structure your sales approach to capture that growth. The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. Traditional Sales Growth vs SaaS Sales Growth. SaaS Growth Rate.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bootstrapped companies must focus relentlessly on sales, cash flow, and profit because they don’t have the luxury of VC investments to fall back on. It has all of the features you’d expect from a SaaS project management tool, including Gantt charts, Kanban boards, briefs, and request forms. Apple isn’t. per user per month.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

Your team is the very pulse of your business, which is why their skillset is the most crucial factor when it comes to choosing a software tool. Figure out the technical knowledge of your team. Do you have a team of engineers and data scientists who know programming languages like Python, SQL, and R? User Skillset. Scalability.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Which is why you should sign up for the 2 for 1 Insider Sale and get two people for the price of one. Black Holes: these are ideas that take up a lot of company effort while offering poor ROI. Work on developing your brand. Hire Game Changers to Propel Growth. Covering all ground won’t be easy. Full post. .

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. 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. We’re on iTunes.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2020

I’ve put together a list of my top five document management solutions—let’s talk about why they are valuable and how they can help. The Top 5 Options for Document Management Software. For sales, this is an information gold mine. Some businesses are looking for a solution that helps them move their documents to the cloud.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Sales wants more features. 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. Progress and growth grinds to a halt.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Travis Bryant , Entrepreneur in Residence at Redpoint Ventures and former global head of Sales at Optimizely. Travis began his career designing web portals for car dealerships before joining Salesforce as a Sales Engineer. How do you know you are going to be a great manager?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 3, 2021

That said, it’s never a bad idea to exercise a bit of empathy, and put yourself in the shoes of your target customer. Understanding their processes and struggles can help you and your team tweak your approach, messaging, timelines, and even product to ease the stress on the part of the buyer. What does transparent even mean these days?

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Statista says worldwide ecommerce sales will grow from 4.2 They have approximately 33 clients, manage a client budget of 6.1 Upgrow’s client list includes: Talkdesk memSQL Nurx Impact Fund Cloud Logistics Platform9 Miss Jones Baking Co. Inflow doesn’t have account managers. Sales and revenue-focused.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

All the technical stuff is managed by the provider, the sites are blazing fast, and WordPress never goes down. In the event that there is an issue, it’s resolved quickly by the managed WordPress hosting support team. This ends up saving me tons of money, even if we now pay a higher dollar amount for managed hosting each month.

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Stax

MAY 21, 2024

We’re seeing a similar trend in the legal industry, where law firms rely on case management systems to run their businesses. With management systems’ continual growth and improvement, it’s no wonder software sales are at an all-time high. They likely already have someone doing the job that your software provides.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have David “Hersh” Hershenson , Chief of Staff at Tray.io , a 20-year veteran of the high-growth world and one of the first 200 employees at Salesforce. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Join us for a candid conversation about leveraging feedback to understand your internal brand.

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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. That’s been a major focus. Okay, this is what we’re going to work on.

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