Kellblog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Is your leadership team world-class? Could you grow faster if you replaced your head of sales? Does your board think you have the right leadership team? Heck, does your leadership team think you have the right leadership team? Are some of your executives holding your company back? Do your rank-and-file employees?

Leadership 122

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Scale 122

Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2021

You can then use it to arrange for the required capital to launch your product or service. Follow this up by building your team and finding a location if you’re opening a physical store. Finally, focus your efforts on generating more sales and growing your business, which is also what you’ll find yourself doing for most of your career.

Underperforming Technical Team 128

Underperforming Technical Team Business Sales Hiring Scale 128

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Sales enablement is easy. More sales meetings, more money. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

Marketplace as a Service 113

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 113

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

Scale 206

Scale Outsourcing Services Software Sales Hiring 206

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Enough venture capital can certainly bridge that gap. I mean consumed a little bit of capital, but if 90% of them converted in the trial period, it all worked out on the hardware. As they scaled, they radically changed how they did sales. Like sales doesn’t like freemium. So that’s one question.

Scale 270

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Enterprise 270

Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

” Mark’s been a startup CEO twice, selling two companies in strategic acquisitions, and he’s run worldwide sales and channels a few times. Mark’s a seasoned startup executive, he’s go-to-market oriented, and he has some large-company chops that he developed earlier in his career.

Sales Hiring 143

Sales Hiring Startup Software Review Enterprise 143

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 11, 2022

Rising inflation and a weak stock market are causing investors to be more careful with their financing, and without a plan to manage your cash runway effectively, you’re putting both yourself and your company at risk. So what should you do if you’re strapped for cash and have your sights set on venture capital?

Scale 97

Scale Scaling Technical Review Venture Capital 97

Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

Great core/founding team. Thus, there is a good chance one or all of the founding team will be around, and in influential positions, for a long time. In venture capital (VC) land, you should view investors as long-term partners in value creation. So, strictly speaking, how could this table be inherently good or bad?

Underperforming Technical Team 80

Underperforming Technical Team Startup Software Technical Cofounder 80

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

And the very first thing that I did, like any neurotic person is I Googled corporate venture capital. They might be sales operations challenges. We have one company in our portfolio that this is the third time the founding team has been together. That’s how much I knew about it. ” And not just open ended.

Development Team Review 147

Development Team Review Scale Technical Review Software Review 147

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Pietro Bezza | Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures. Ophelia Brown | Founder, Partner @ Blossom Capital. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Evgenia Plotnikova | Principal @ Dawn Capital. Christina Fonseca | Venture Partner @ Indico Partners (moderator). I’m the founder of Blossom Capital.

New CTO 177

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 177

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team. million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding.

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

Kellblog

JUNE 27, 2022

So is developing a geographic strategy. Just as sports teams have an advantage when competing in their home stadium, European startups often have a (sometimes unacknowledged) home country advantage when competing in their home market. The US poses numerous, often unique, challenges for a European technology startup. The market is vast.

Startup 124

Startup Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Compensation 124

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matt Rizzetta , founder of North 6th Agency, which is a communications and PR firm based in New York City. Years later, he’s got a thriving business that is not venture capital backed. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How to get better at sales [21:37].

Scale 123

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 123

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees. In light of the sale of Buildium last month I figured now is as good of a time as any to reflect on the most important ones. Venture capital is a tool and a commitment, not an outcome. We mostly succeeded. I’m proud of all that.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

Baremetrics

APRIL 16, 2021

If so, how much money will you need to build your product and get it to market and what types of capital will you employ to do so? This capital should be used for product development and the people required to help you build it. This is not the time to invest in sales and marketing. Venture Capital.

Venture Capital 66

Venture Capital Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SaaS 66

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

million round of financing led by Grotech Ventures in 2017. Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. Interest from channel partners and sales via channel partners can be another meaningful indicator. . ChurnZero raised a $2.5

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Content marketing can generate huge amounts of traffic, leads, and sales for your business. From the beginning, Distilled has always been focused on technical SEO, focusing on the development aspects of content marketing. ” Eric Sui and the Single Grain team are turnaround specialists.

Content Marketing 134

Content Marketing Technical Review Marketing Banking 134

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. And how do you hack it? This episode is sponsored by Outgrow. Jason Lemkin: Crazy.

Sales Recruiting 216

Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 216

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

Scale 211

Scale Software Review compliance Technical Review 211

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

Investment 207

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 207

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. So there’s a lot of kind of, I don’t know, dogma in venture capital. It’s very inspiring for me. I also want to break a lot of the stigma.

Payment Methods 157

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 157

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Scale 106

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’m a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, which is a venture capital firm, which was very lucky to be a part of SendGrid’s journey. We collectively as a company were fortunate in doing all those things and, boy, was it a heck of a team effort, and it was a lot of fun. I won’t lie.

Scale 152

Scale Acquisition Scaling Sales Hiring 152

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Do you gun straight for the glamour (and pressure) of venture capital investment? What about a venture capitalist who might be sympathetic to your mission? Going into the pursuit of funding without a plan can lead you nowhere—or, even worse, leave you saddled with a funding plan that’s bad for you and your business.

Venture Capital 56

Venture Capital Scale SaaS Benchmarks 56

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? We called ourselves a team of four, actually, who operate and make decisions, and it’s just how we rolled. .” You mean overwhelmed by too much capital?

Acquisition 157

Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 157

Kellblog

APRIL 4, 2021

We are team members in an organization, after all. is high but we are ramping quickly and carrying a lot of unproductive sales capacity that hurts the CAC ratio.” We don’t have a sales model, so why are you calculating its efficiency? They apologize for missed quarters or bad hires. Founders own the team.

CTO Coach 100

CTO Coach CTO Hire Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 100

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2021

” And because of my background in business solutions, business development, marketing, communications, education, I’m used to planning. ” Teaching taught me to develop what I want to do from the goal and go backward. Media is good and bad, and we know that. I think she lost about six or seven of them.

Outsourcing Services 151

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Business Scale 151

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

An existing SaaS customer spends more, on average, than a new customer, and are more than seven times more likely to churn (leave your business) to go to a competitor because of poor customer service than they are for a better product. Chorus is a leading conversation intelligence platform for sales teams. Consistent updates.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. The second sponsor is Outreach, the number one sales engagement platform. We’re on iTunes.

VP of Engineering 82

VP of Engineering Branding Scale Marketing 82

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. Usually, it requires an outbound sales motion. I think it’s a really staggering stat. How long can this last?

Cloud 113

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 113

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can think of Horizontal SaaS as broad-based tech that is industry agnostic; a sales person at a Cybersecurity company can use HubSpot the same way a sales person at a Health Supplements company might use it. We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

You can’t have a top down budget created by an executive team and approved by the board, while also having self managed teams that are empowered to make decisions by sensing and responding to what the market and the business is telling them. We don’t have any agreed upon budgets, or any sales reps with quotas.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. I don’t know anything about sales. More power to you.

Sales Hiring 281

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 281

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

So the new sales leader is trying to figure out, can we go further up market? And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual. Jason Lemkin: Okay.

Scale 269

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling VP of Engineering 269

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

There is more capital available to startups than ever before. This is due to several factors, including low-interest rates, the rise of venture capital , and the increasing popularity of angel investing. His best deals by cash are: Sales Loft : $2.5 This is because: There are more venture capital firms.

CTO Hire 289

CTO Hire Development Team Review Software Review Technical Review 289