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The Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Hear from Duo Security’s VP of Inside Sales America on how to build a $2.3B sales team. Jennifer Lawrence | VP, Inside Sales @ Duo Security. We created and served up apps via the cloud on a subscription basis. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring.

Scale 294
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The 3 Secret Ingredients for Scaling to $100M ARR with Bitly CEO and CPO

SaaStr

The three core areas to focus on are: Evolving your growth engine Building and solving for when to become a multi-product platform Investing in your people and team #1: Evolving Your Growth Engine Let’s start with some context for Bitly’s journey. You might have to rebuild your marketing team. Optimize your acquisition funnel.

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How Focusing on Delivering Customer Value Generates Business Value with Gusto Co-Founder Josh Reeves (Pod 606 + Video)

SaaStr

Developing a product that solves a customer’s pain point provides a sense of pride and can drive the positive, emotional moment of awe that retains customers for the long haul. This approach gets to the heart of the subscription-based business model. That doesn’t make them bad people. Business model. Give them a chance to grow!

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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

SaaStr

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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What’s New at Automattic and WordPress with Co-founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg

SaaStr

Speaking of the long game, Matt talks about the launch of the 100-year subscription plan last year. WordPress is its own ecosystem, a vibrant community of hundreds of thousands of people who create add-ons, plugins, and develop sites. He loves subscription models where people pay for something that gives them value.

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Scaling from $1 to $10M, an AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Pod 573)

SaaStr

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Jason Lemkin: But usually your teams can’t do that. So you’re going to need at least three of those in the sales ops team. This always works.

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