SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. In this talk, CircleCI VP of Revenue Jane Kim will talk about the 5 mistakes all new sales leaders make. Sorry, I’m a sales leader, I can’t help it. SaaS = Software that scales.

Scale 181

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 181

InsightSquared

MAY 22, 2019

Many of you will at some point be faced with a board or executive team who want to get a slice of the juicy enterprise market after experiencing success in the mid-market. This article has some key takeaways on the pre-requisites for success from a sales org profile standpoint. Having the Right People in Place. How Can ESPs Do This?

Sales Hiring 94

Sales Hiring Enterprise Engineering Outsourcing Services 94

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. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Your first SaaS customer success hire.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Sales Hiring Strategy 177

Audacix

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Without doing both, you will lose high paying and reliable enterprise customers to competitors who use their cloud software security standards as a differentiating factor to grow sales. But they are considering all of them after your sales meetings have ended. How do keep my data safe from your internal teams?

Enterprise readiness 52

Enterprise readiness Enterprise Cybersecurity SaaS 52

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. The sales team don’t know how to sell the product.

Sales Hiring 96

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Underperforming Technical Team 96

User Pilot

JUNE 10, 2019

This is disruptive, bottom-up sales…where employees of an organization can choose what products they want to use instead of being forced to use certain tools by IT or operations departments in a more top-down approach. Long sales cycles and low revenue per employee. You should prioritize the user experience above all else.

Growth Marketing 143

Growth Marketing Scale Marketing Sales Hiring 143

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

It allows companies to prove their real-time security posture just about any day of the year, so it accelerates their sales cycles and security reviews. And then, it allows companies to be more enterprise-ready. So we’re hiring across the board, all departments. Liam: The whole area is a new space.

Scale 211

Scale Software Review compliance Technical Review 211

Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

There are many posts out there explaining how startup co-founders should “land the first sales, then hire the first 2 sales and when to hire a VP sales”. But, in my experience, there’s very little written about what is the equivalent for Product Management. Are you done with product management?

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Startup Scale Software Review 52

Audacix

AUGUST 22, 2022

Most companies, particularly larger enterprises, want proof from their third party vendors that their sensitive data is protected when it handed over to you and while you store in the cloud. With a SOC 2 report, businesses will spend less time performing due diligence as part of the sales cycle.

Software Review 75

Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review Software 75

Audacix

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

If you are building a B2B SaaS then proving you have thorough and consistent for securing your web applications and APIs can ultimately end up making or breaking your sales efforts. Most businesses hire security professionals to conduct web application security test on their behalf.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team DevOps as a Service SaaS Sales Hiring 52