FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

If you’re running a smaller digital business, you may find it challenging to hire great talent. If you’re facing challenges winning the best candidates for your roles, or if you have a small number of roles and every hire really matters, then don’t miss this episode of Growth Stage. X sales force, X meta.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

You have to be careful to pair that with someone strong to manage the relationship, that has more time and that also can be trusted. As a founder, you’ll just run out of time to properly manage key customers and partners yourself. We all underresource customer success vs. sales. Are we sure?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Just like filing your income tax returns or hanging that state-mandated safety poster up in your break room, sales tax is a back-office pain point, not a profit center. . That makes sales tax compliance easy to ignore… until it becomes a problem. . Why is sales tax such a pain for SaaS companies? There are a few reasons.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. Pete was a Google Associate Product Manager for AdSense and launched Google App Engine. Dan and his team wrote code to fine-tune sign-up flows, and the experiments meaningfully improved fundraising performance. And you should do it right then.

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Accelerate sales Clients are increasingly concerned about the safety of their data and hesitant to trust just any organization. Proving due diligence regarding information security can drag out the sales process. This provides you with a significant competitive advantage over companies. The result?

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Flexible integration with any other software, hardware or business workflow applications. But also, as a sole founder, you also can make a decision in a very timely manner. Not only for the product side, but for the sales and marketing side. Eric Yuan: Because, at that time, we really needed a product. Eric Yuan: Yep.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Things like media companies, finance companies, retail companies, sales functions, marketing functions, and customer support. “The biggest thing I can do for Slack is to hire people who know a lot more than I do and give them free rein to do their best work” Adam Risman: You mentioned the team started with performance marketing.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. We’re on iTunes.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

If I’m about to do business with your company and your software is going to access my customers’ data, it’s my responsibility to ensure you have the proper controls in place to protect it. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. If you sell software today, there’s a 99.9%

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

At Hired, we started out with a transactional model that was—at the time—a super disruptive approach and one of our key differentiators. It would help us establish a more predictable and consistent income based on recurring revenue instead of one-time purchases. Recognizing Your Cue – Opportunities and Conviction.

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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. Oh, and do all of this with less time. More sales meetings, more money. More sales meetings, more money. We’re on iTunes.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Continuous risk management. Hiring and cultivating incredible talent on our Information Security team. Shipping is our heartbeat ” has been the motto of the Intercom R&D org from the very beginning and engineers ship code to our customer-facing production app dozens of times a day. Shipping quickly and securely.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

He spearheads various initiatives to promote innovation and excellence in product management. Digital transformations often fail due to unclear vision and outdated methods, not team adoption or tech implementation issues. He hosts Proddys, an annual awards ceremony recognizing outstanding software products, and The Product Podcast.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. It was an iPad interactive brochure and sales tool for sales centres. Sima Banijamali – Sr. I knew nothing about tech.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Amanda Renteria , CEO for Code for America. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Maggie Hott , Director of Sales at Webflow. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Code for America’s Amanda Renteria on defining the citizen experience. Amanda Renteria, CEO of Code for America, is a firm believer in this idea.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

“Our renewal rate looked great, but as we began to dig into data, we realized it was because of our CS team and their high levels of service—it wasn’t necessarily a reflection of our software, our product/go-to-market fit, or the pain we were solving in the market,” he says. “We Identify ideal customers and hone sales personas.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

It’s the underpinning of your go-to-market strategy and impacts everything from marketing to sales, to customer success and the product itself. They re-launched their product and got rave reviews. If you position around "time saved" you lose money Jason Cohen has built and sold several companies and is the Founder and CTO of WP Engine.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

But promotional paths are a-changing, according to a time-series by Spencer Stuart summarized in Harvard Business Review’s “ Finding the Right CEO.” ” Twenty years ago, COOs accounted for 76% of CEO promotions in the S&P 500. We hire a third-party firm. Who made up the lost ground?

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

When designing your culture code, here are nine mistakes to be aware of. When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. Since then, its culture code has been viewed more than 4 million times. Hamilton, Broadway show.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. Today, a lot of the PLG SaaS tools require sales motion upfront because nobody understands those tools. Those types of tools actually require work in the initial days of the sales motion.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Public valuations are still at a fraction of their 2021 peaks, but seed rounds are more expensive than ever. Harry and Jason did a deep dive on this and so much more here: Intro (00:00:00) Seed investing is broken due to limited founders capable of triple-digit growth. His best deals by cash are: Sales Loft : $2.5 billion cash.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And unfortunately it wasn’t Larry and Sergei who we’re starting Google at the same time, but it was two other students doing something much more mundane. They were building time and expense software. I came back to G2 as a CEO about three quarters ago after a little bit time at SteelBrick.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

And this is not just about something you do in a later stage, when you raise that $120,000,000 that PJ from Sherpa had done, but something you can do at the series A stage when you’re doing small hires to build out your team. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. The third one would be sales motion.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. Loving our podcast content? They’re like, do we really need one?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

If your sales team has 20 plus reps, we’re confident Apollo could be a game changer for you. Topping the list of most-loved sales platforms, Apollo has a 4.8 star rating on G2 backed by over 7,300 verified reviews. Sales was once a profession built on personal relationships and meaningful interactions. The result?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? Finally, before Pure, Yousuf’s first role in the valley was with Qualys, again as CIO, where he owned the entire global IT budget. Loving our podcast content?

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

Also, you are known to the media, meaning the public interest in the story is more obvious and placing a story takes less time. Moreover, big brands have a fantastic infrastructure in place and you are working in-sync with other teams (marketing, production, sales), meaning that your campaigns are always amplified.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

How does Paul think about driving really effective change management? When engaging with bottoms up sales models, where does Paul identify the tipping points of going from bottoms up to top down? * Most people don’t want to customize their software. Is there hiring decisions? Is it product decisions?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Martin brings a wealth of experience in building and scaling sales teams, developing effective go-to-market strategies, and navigating the challenges of startup growth. 14:58) The evolution of Levelset’s sales motion and pricing strategy. (29:06) 29:06) The importance of sales playbooks and codifying the sales process. (35:30)

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2021

Devon Rutherford, Managed Services Program Manager & Pre-Sales Manager @ Leaseweb. Jules Costa, Content Manager @ BEE. Amy Appleyard, VP Sales @ VMWare. Michelle Benfer, VP, Head of North America Sales @ HubSpot. Brittany Skoda, Global Head of Software Banking @ Morgan Stanley.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Prior to InCountry, Peter founded six and sold 6 enterprise software companies that were acquired by Sun, Citrix, VMware, Oracle, Sprinklr and Prograph. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2.

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