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Top 10 Unexpected Learnings from Scaling Wiz From $0 to The First $100M ARR with founding CRO Colin Jones and Sam Blond

SaaStr

It’s an incredible look back on scaling and more: Colin Jones, first Chief Revenue Officer at Wiz. Colin joined Wiz in February 2021 when the company was near zero revenue. Rather than seeing this as a liability, Wiz leveraged it as a strategic advantage — even in its sales team.

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Top 10 Mistakes Getting to $100M ARR with LaunchDarkly’s Co-founder Edith Harbaugh (Pod 668 + Video)

SaaStr

They hired their first VP of Sales with a wonderful pedigree and experience at some of the hottest startups. Harbaugh had to sheepishly go to their new board member and tell them that instead of achieving their forecasts to go from $1M-$5, they’d be lucky to eke out $1.5M because they needed to rebuild the sales team.

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Thanks to Payhawk, G2, Zoho, Outreach, and Onboard for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

With over 70 million users worldwide, Zoho’s 50+ products aid your sales and marketing, support and collaboration, finance and recruitment needs—letting you focus only on your business. Zoho respects user privacy and does not have an ad-revenue model in any part of its business, including its free products.

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The Four Stages of Sales Compensation Structures in Early Stage Startups

Tom Tunguz

You might have a few account executives and a sales leader in place; maybe some revenue and a handful of customers. The sales team costs real money, and the question before the company is: how do you know what quota plan to assign to the account executives? Stage 1: Management by Objectives.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. Recruiting is easier, but the things that don’t change are customers don’t care.

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Modeling Your SaaS Startup's Revenue Growth Effectively

Tom Tunguz

The company has no visibility into their revenue growth. So, the management team should minimize costs, maximize cash and lengthen runway to provide as much time as possible to find that product market fit. In other words, how much cash investment is required to double or triple or quadruple revenues in the next year.

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Sales Performance Dashboards to Keep Every Part of Your Revenue Engine on Track

Sales Hacker

Your revenue organization works in the same way. Here’s the thing about driving a car — and about running a sales org: Bumps in the road are inevitable. One of the best ways to ensure every part of your engine is running smoothly is to build sales performance dashboards for everyone on your team. Activity metrics.