SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

David Sacks – GP at Craft Ventures, and this week I thought I’d wrap it up with Part 2 stemming from a great session with Spenser Skates , CEO and CoFounder of Amplitude. Because Innovation inevitably (but not exclusively) goes down as you scale. Solution: Build functional teams that drive innovation.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

It’s not all technical. Listen to Hang Black’s podcasts to learn about the future of sales enablement or how to lead with empathy. RevOps leaders are talking about trends in the market, and how the move towards RevOps will change everything from marketing to sales development to post sales. Compensation plans.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.” Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. Let’s get started. Pre-Startup.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. If your sales team has 20 plus reps, we’re confident Apollo could be a game changer for you. Topping the list of most-loved sales platforms, Apollo has a 4.8 The result?

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Neil Patel

MARCH 25, 2021

For this reason, you can get started with MailChimp early using the tool for free as you get your feet wet with email marketing and then move to a paid plan as you scale. When it comes to marketing, sales, and CRM software, HubSpot has become one of the top players. It only takes a few minutes to set up a board. UberSuggest.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Fintech scaling vertical SaaS : Digitising these workflows will open the possibility to layer in financial revenues. The Graneet team has built, scaled, and sold tech products but has also spent time working inside construction companies, understanding their day-to-day pains.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

And from that flows decisions about what and who to spend time on,” says David Heinemeier Hansson , co-founder and CTO of Basecamp. “[My My cofounder and I decided] we weren’t going to have clients, we were going to have customers. Compared with that standard, flat rate pricing is like putting lead shoes on a dancer.

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Kellblog

JULY 21, 2019

Measured the show solely by qualified leads for his territory, discounting company visibility and leads for other territories to zero. And that’s good — you’re going to get leads and engage with people in your market, not win a design competition.). Didn’t use his pass to attend a single session. Absolutely. .

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Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

And after you’ve mastered the sales process, Chargify is here to handle your recurring billing. A great example of this strategy being done right is Dropbox’s freemium offering , which allows “users to see how easy it is to back up and share their files using the Dropbox platform,” says Sujan Patel, cofounder of Right Inbox.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

She left Stanford to cofound Coursera with Andrew Ng and is now the founder and CEO of Insitro, a tech bio company using AI to develop drugs in life sciences. Daphne: I think it comes back to this ability to collect, but even more than collect, generate data at scale. Vijay: Daphne is the OG’s OG in AI.

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Saasler

MARCH 28, 2017

He served as CMO and Co-Founder of all-in-one sales prospecting solution, Pipetop , before shifting his attention to a new venture, Pleo.io. Jakob has a long history of working with early stage startups in a technical marketing role, and his thoughts can usually be found on industry blogs like Bi zible and Saascribe.

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Audacix

MAY 27, 2022

Ayush Trivedi, Cofounder & Director, Audacix And thankfully, most software companies face a much smaller range of cyber threats as compared to large enterprises. If this aspect is not made clear to you during the sales process, then you have to wonder at the transparency of the the penetration testing team, no?

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

our good pal Hiten Shah, a master in the startup community—who shaped FYI, Crazy Egg , and Kissmetrics into the successes they've become, not to mention an advisor to 120 additional startup endeavors. In this segment, he advises we avoid the traditional sales model in our voyage to greatness. Pagely drops a podcast episode feat.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Kyle made his way into the world of SaaS and sales and came to be Head of Sales at one of the fastest-growing companies in Figma. What worked?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

How does this requirement change as the company scales? How does Karl think about doing this at scale? How does Karl think about retaining agility and flexibility with scale? I started my training on the technical side, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or engineer, in particular, thinking I wanted to do research.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

358: Chen Amit is the Founder & CEO @ Tipalti, the only global payable automation platform that scales with you and now remitting $5Bn annually across 3M suppliers. To date, Chen has raised over $146M with Tipalti from the likes of Oren Zeev, Dan Rose, Mike Chalfen and then Greenspring, Truebridge and 01 Advisors to name a few.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Jason Lemkin is the Founder @ SaaStr, the world’s largest SaaS community and leading early-stage SaaS fund with investments in Automile, TalkDesk, Algolia and more. Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. What can founders do to optimize revenue per lead?

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