SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

SaaStr Scale, our one day, San Francisco based event. The Playbook To… Hear from different revenue leaders on the playbooks to revenue growth, scaling, building better teams and more. The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh. Anaplan CMO Maria Pergolino.

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

The SaaStr Annual is the largest non-vendor event in the industry, with 10,000+ attendees from all across the world coming together each year in the SF Bay Area. We also launched an affiliated $90m venture fund and had our inaugural SaaStr Europa event in Paris of 2018. We were the first major SaaS event back in the SF Bay Area.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. That experience led to his bestselling book, The Sales Acceleration Formula. A data-driven framework for scaling. Mark’s latest ebook, The Science of Scaling , outlines a precise framework for success.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2023

So both of SaaStr’s mega events are coming up. 4,000+ of us will get together there to share, scale and learn. It’s more of a destination event. Tons of VPs of Sales, Marketing, Product and CS still come to Europa. SaaStr Annual is the biggest founder and exec-focused event in Cloud. Highest % of founders and VCs.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

I thought it would be worth drilling down deeper into each of them, and sharing the learnings and mistakes: 1/ Spending less time fixing things, more time recruiting senior folks to own them. No one spends enough time recruiting as it is, after $1m ARR or so. Yes, you can manage the sales team yourself. You can do this.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2021

We recently did a New New in Venture event and I asked the question of many top VCs including David Sacks, Keith Rabois, Aileen Lee and more. “Give the VP of Sales More Time” This is always terrible advice. If a VP of Sales can’t improve things in one sales cycle or less — she never will.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Enough with the excuses for not having hired your real VP of Sales, or that VP of Engineering, or whatever. Hire a real recruiter. Hire more sales reps in the areas where they are profitable. Increase your Customer Events. Events don’t have to cost $9m+ like the SaaStr Annual. Not in April. Not by June.

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SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2019

We’re doing a new, very cool, all-day, 1-day event in San Francisco on August 29th just on The Playbook. The Playbook: To Recruiting Your Sales Team, with Brex CSO Sam Blong. To Scaling High-Performing Teams, with Gusto COO Lexi Reese. To Growth Hacking at Scale, with ex-Drift and Segment VP Growth Guillaume Cabane.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Lizzie Mintus Founder and CEO of Here’s Waldo Recruiting and host of The Heres Waldo Podcast about her thoughts on: The most effective recruiting strategies for SMBs. So during the intro, I kind of talked about how you run here’s Waldo recruiting.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. Personalized Event Recommendations : Demonstrate a deeper understanding of customer needs by recommending relevant events that align with their growth goals.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2019

SaaStr Scale is THIS THURSDAY in San Francisco! The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with Fmr. PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh. The Playbook to Running Growth Experiments at Scale with Ex Machina Founder Guillaume Cabane. GRAB A FINAL, FINAL TICKET HERE ! VIEW THE FULL AGENDA. ATTENDEE PORTAL.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Recently, Redpoint Office Hours welcomed Allison Pickens to clarify the COO role and when startups should consider recruiting one. Whereas a decade ago, a board might have hired a professional CEO to scale the operations of a startup, today, more boards seek COOs. The CoS doesn’t manage anyone. The Four COO Archetypes.

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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. And now it’s all about like, can you really scale and execute? Dev Ittycheria : Thank you.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. We did a good AMA on this scaling at SaaStr Europa in Barcelona, a couple weeks back. That will scale, and then take those emails after four great pieces of content and do a weekly webinar and do a weekly get-together for them.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Building ‘opinionated products’ and the importance of customer intimacy Lessons learned from scaling Twitter’s ad business from zero to $650 million in three years. 15:41) Scaling Twitter’s ad business and managing hyper-growth. (26:54) Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

The question facing founders recruiting marketers is: which is the most important to prioritize? This acquisition portfolio spans search, advertising, social media, events, podcasts, ebooks, outbound calling, and many other techniques. After achieving product market fit, it’s a natural time to scale lead generation.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

They see it as a key differentiator to win as you scale. In any event, VCs that consistently back “world class” engineering teams generally don’t like SaaS companies without them, no matter how successful they are. You never have a perfect management team until you are at $10m+ ARR, at the earliest, in 98/100 cases.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

We’ll have two full days of thought leadership content, networking opportunities, fantastic food, and fabulous evening events, all in the heart of Barcelona — snag your Europa 2022 tickets and catch up with us on the other side of the Atlantic this summer! Growth for us is about massive scaling and hiring. Luciana: Okay.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 280

SaaStr

MAY 31, 2024

1: How Sales and Marketing Have Shifted Since 2020 Expectations and the types of people working in SaaS have shifted over the past few years, and much more in sales, marketing, and customer success. . #1: He had a friend help him hire an email marketer to send ticket emails to the events. It was all organic. It all still works.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Head of Sales. Positions Needed: Enterprise AEs, Mid-Market & SMB AEs, SDRs, Sales Ops, Sales Engineer. Positions Needed: Demand Gen, Product Marketing, Sales Enablement, Events/Community.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

379: From how many reps to hire, to compensation models, here are the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales teams and how to avoid them. Announcer: In today’s SaaStr Insider, SaaStr CEO and founder, Jason Lemkin, shared the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales team.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Sales 240

Unbounce

JULY 15, 2020

There’s something special about attending an in-person conference or industry event. This year though, almost every single conference and event has been either delayed or canceled. This year though, almost every single conference and event has been either delayed or canceled. How to Run a Webinar or Virtual Event Like a Pro.

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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. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Manual processes first. Names stick.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Talkpush is a conversational recruiting CRM that allows employers and job seekers to connect in new ways across the globe. It also gives recruiters a faster process through its chatbot and application management tool. It is a platform for inventory and order management that helps owners and distributors. Founded : 2012.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newslettr by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. Jonathan Moss (EVP at Experity) showcased an Account Plan GPT that streamlines sales and marketing account research for outbound efforts. Link to GPT. Link to GPT.

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SaaStr

APRIL 13, 2022

For 2 days, more than 50+ sessions and 75 expert speakers will be sharing their best practices in Barcelona on scaling, revenue, recruiting, expansion and so much more. Navigating the Rocky Road From Founder Led Sales to The First Dozen Sales Professionals Demodesk’s CEO Veronika Riederle.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2020

We’re basically going to talk about the seven “people” things that nobody tells you when you scale a B2B company. The first thing is, and this is a little crazy, but recruitment is incredibly overrated. How many people out here spend more than a third of your time recruiting? Tough Management Lesson #1.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Management Marketing 200

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

And can you talk a little bit about touching on the hiring point, because you did say that you focused a lot on talent, and recruiting. And coming from Brazil without a big network in Silicon Valley, un-launched, without a website, it was actually really hard to recruit the first ten people. I’m going to go, and scale it up.”

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I started a software company in college to make it easy to update websites called Content Management Software Now, and I had this idea for Pardot, I wanted to make it easy for marketers to run campaigns online and measure their results. SalesLoft, why was that Pardot, I tried to recruit this guy, Kyle Porter, to come run sales at Pardot.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The best sales conferences enrich your team, build knowledge, and offer plenty of networking opportunities (and fun)! Bad sales conferences just feel like a huge waste of time away from you prospects. SaaStr Annual is the SaaS event that you shouldn’t miss. It’s a three-day event with more than two hundred sessions.

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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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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale Sales Hiring 111

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Companies need a specialized approach for SMB accounts, different than the tactics used for Enterprise. Andrei Brasoveanu will sit down for a conversation with Agnes Bazin Doctolib on how to create a targeted and effective sales process tailor-made for SMB. The topic of the day is secret to SMB sales. That’s fantastic.

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Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 128

SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

And that’s really good when you’re scaling part of the team that looks like yourself. But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. One, a VP sales.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. Then, the sales team went to work. When making a sales hire, Max pays attention to the way candidates approach getting the job.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Thanks to Jason Lemkin and the SaaStr Team for putting on this event in a very tough time. And we’re on a webinar right now, but I think everyone now wants to do webinars because that’s the best way to connect with people at scale. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW. I know I am.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.

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