SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

It was, kind of, like a developer friend who had a startup, so they saw their transactions on the terminal. It took probably six months developing all the back, and infrastructure, KYC, AML, and all the regulatory requirements to be able to issue a card in five minutes. So, it was 15 months between idea, and actually launching.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach. See below!

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach. We will write about: 1.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 5, 2021

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How the role of sales development has changed [13:10]. Keeping new sales professionals focused on the mission [18:44]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Kata Nyitrai , head of global sales development for Meero, a fast-growing company in Europe.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. And of course, a strong sales comp plan needs to motivate reps to hit goals that grow the company while still maintaining a profit margin. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan. Keep it Simple.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Before we look at the promised SaaS revenue models, let’s get a couple definitions out of the way. While it includes your revenue model(s) and thus revenue stream(s), it also includes everything else from marketing to developing, recruiting, and operations. Business model: This is the top-level structure of your company.

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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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Sales Hacker

JUNE 27, 2019

I typically see this happen for one main reason: Startups often think (consciously or subconsciously) that scaling or building a sales team is as simple as “getting bodies in the door yesterday.”. Just because a rep has amazing sales numbers doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a good hire. Nothing could be further from the truth!

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Kellblog

MARCH 13, 2020

In days of yore, chief revenue officer (CRO) was just a gussied-up title for VP of Sales. If someone was particularly good, particularly senior, or particularly hard to recruit you might call them CRO. Chief revenue officer meant chief sales officer meant VP of Sales. Frank, the head of Sales, had a $1B number.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

It was less than two years ago when Sarah experienced the frustrating and draining challenge of trying to get out of her five-year water heater contract. She called the provider, Reliance, to cancel the remaining two years of her contract so she could purchase her own water heater. Product can develop new features or new products.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The lifetime value of a customer is just what it says—the total amount of revenue earned by the average customer during the duration of their contract. For example, if your ARPU is $60/month and your average contract length is 20 months, then your LTV would be $60 × 20 = $1200. While the definition is simple, the calculations aren’t.

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SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

But with it comes immense benefits and competitive advantages such as the diversification of ideas, speedier product development, and representation in important regions and time zones. We kept up pretty well, but we definitely had some challenges with that. Otherwise, we just got none of them. They were a small company.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. Since then, you’ve spent over 12 years in post-sales leadership. Going through all parts of the customer journey.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We wanted to automate research that was being outsourced and then we wanted to take it to the world. And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. For the first 10 years when we didn’t do one media interview and we got to 50 million in sales. Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. In enterprise software, it’s all about contracts, long term contracts. Heidi Jannenga : When we’ve again, first started going out and looking for funding, everybody wants to amplify your sales strategy.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales at Slack. Kevin’s sales career has taken him from Oracle, to Dropbox, to Salesforce, and now, to Slack. How experience as a sales engineer can play into your role as a sales leader. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A sales rep completes their proposal and it’s automatically routed to the right manager for review and approval. Not only is that rep moving on to their next task, the pending approval is queued up exactly where it needs to be for the manager. Low-Code Application Development.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The bar is definitely higher, but I don’t think that it has to be. To give an example, I was talking to one founder before his B2B SaaS company, and he’s like, “Well, I want to hire a VP of sales to prove what our cost of acquisition is and our payback, et cetera, et cetera.” Emilie : So, yes. Emilie : Okay.

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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.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 14, 2021

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Tampa, FL, US Organization: Vector Solutions As a Director of Customer Success, you will drive the service strategy and accountable for performance and customer satisfaction. Develop and implement effective strategies for ensuring client engagement and adoption.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Daniel, you grew to 3 million in ARR before you hired a VP of Sales. You had all the reps and SDRs reporting to you, managed it all yourself. How’d you manage all that? Daniel : We followed a lean start up approach to building our sales process. An engineering team and the sales team was me with a laptop.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2020

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. You can’t, you have to invest in that sales infrastructure.”

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Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2018

We’ve been compiling this sales automation tools list for a while, trying to figure out the best way to get the information out there. There are a number of existing resources available on sales automation, but they don’t offer use cases and examples of how to put the tools to action. What Is Sales Automation?

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created. New Relic’s General Manager, Mark Weitzel, weighs in on how you can support your developers.

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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

MARCH 13, 2020

Harry Hurst: So throughout my teens and early 20s, I built companies ranging from fashion distribution, all the way to headhunting and recruitment. This is actually one of the most exciting developments for me in SaaS. Harry Hurst: Yeah, definitely. Will the kind of software contracts themselves be a standalone asset clause?

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Kellblog

JUNE 4, 2023

In that (quite popular) post, I shared Mark’s top ten list of mistakes that enterprise software startups make in sales and go-to-market. The simple fix is to spin up a portal that gives partners self-service access to basic sales tools and training. I enjoy talking with Mark because our skills and experience are complementary.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. How does Karl think about working with recruiters? Loving our podcast content? How does this requirement change as the company scales?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

First, what is continuous customer development? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. A classic example is a Shopify selling to, let’s say, contract. When we spoke before about it, you said continuous customer development becomes so crucial. Does it have to be in person?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2020

As for Kate, prior to making the move to Notion just last month, she spent an incredible 8 years at Dropbox including holding roles such as Head of Sales Development, North America and Director of Global SMB Revenue and Operations. Before Notion, Kate spent 2 years at Salesforce in the corporate sales and enterprise business units.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Vikas Bhambri , SVP of Global Sales and Customer Experience at Kustomer. Vikas is a well-respected sales leader in NYC and comes from a sales engineering and product background, with more than 20 years experience. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Prior to Figma, Amanda held numerous roles at Zendesk including SVP of Marketing and Sales Strategy. How does Amanda think the go-to-market has to change with every stage of development? Harry Stebbings: And prior to Figma, Amanda held numerous roles at Zendesk including SVP of marketing and sales strategy. What is that story?

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And while it’s different, it’s definitely a different thing going on in the world today. So if you’re one of those entrepreneurs who are working on your ideas and thinking, “Man is now the time to start,” it’s definitely possible. And today, of course, we have a recruiting team.

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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. This will be a really strong indicator of retention and recruiting.

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