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Corporate VC Investments: Limited, But Real, Pros. And Cons.
These are the Best of Times for venture capital. 500+ new seed funds, and 1000+ unicorns and decacorns. And as part of this, more and more big corporations are adding…
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The 10x Feature is Real. At Least, for a While. What’s Yours?
Recently there was a lot of discussion around if there are truly “10x engineers” or not. It’s a complicated topic. But one thing that is clearly true — there are…
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The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge (Podcast #498 and Video)
Mark Roberge is the Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital, Sr. Lecturer at Harvard Business School, and author of the bestselling book, The Sales Acceleration Formula, and the original CRO at HubSpot. He shares some of the most common SaaS sales potholes when scaling from $0 to $100 million and how to avoid them.
9 Quick Tips To Better The Odds in Raising a Seed or Series A Round
Here are 9 simple tips that are easy to implement -- and almost 100% guaranteed to impact your odds of raising seed or Series A funding: If your existing investors have a strong brand and aren’t...
7+ Tips On How To Build Your First Sales Team
Q: How do you structure a sales team when you’ve got zero experience doing sales? Well, first go get some experience with sales. 🙂 At least, close the first 10 customers yourself. If you don’t,...
The Cutting Edge Techniques for an Impactful Live Event Strategy with Dooly
Mark Jung, VP Marketing at Dooly, and Zoë Hartsfield, Community Manager at Dooly, sit down with SaaStr’s own VP of Sales, Bryan Elsesser, to talk about best practices for brand re-launches and the cutting edge techniques for an impactful live event strategy.
Founder Confidential: The Highs and Lows of Fundraising with the CEOs of Boast, Coda, Expensify, LaunchDarkly and SaaStr (Podcast #497 and Video)
Featuring 5 prominent Founders – from Boast, Calendly, Coda, LaunchDarkly, and SaaStr – that have achieved scale, at “Founder Confidential” you will hear about the highs and lows of fundraising, working with a VC board, and real talk about what it really is like to be a true Founder.
Great VPs of Sales Never Hide from a Miss
https://twitter.com/jasonlk/status/1462584358598963204?s=21 We’ve talked a lot on SaaStr over the years about how to hire a great VP of Sales — and how to course-correct if you’ve made a mis-hire....
How Community-Led Growth Drives Product-Led Growth with Notion’s CRO (Video and Transcript)
At the heart of product-led growth is the user. And in this podcast, Olivia Nottebohm, CRO of Notion ($10B valuation), will delve into the more complex aspects of product-led growth, and why they’re essential for building a successful business that will thrive for years to come.
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7+ Tips On How To Build Your First Sales Team
Q: How do you structure a sales team when you’ve got zero experience doing sales? Well, first go get some experience with sales. 🙂 At least, close the first 10 customers yourself. If you don’t, you’ll never have any idea how to do it. And the odds your first rep...
Why SMB Reps Struggle in the Enterprise. And Vice-Versa.
Q: How is low/mid-ticket sales different from enterprise sales? They are very, very different. If I had to boil down how to filter potential sales professionals based on just 1 controlling criterion, it would be deal size. Enterprise sales: Reps often hunt many of...
The Top 50 SaaStr Answers on Quora in 2020
It's been a fun experience being on Quora for ... a decade 🙂 We've crossed 60,000,000 views of our answers there, so let's take a look at the Top 50 most viewed SaaStr Answers on Quora in 2020: Why do many startup owners sell...
The 3 Types of Day 1 Pricing: Low End of Normal. Identical. And Anchor High.
Q:Â As an entrepreneur starting out, is it better to overprice your product or underprice it? I remember years ago I was at an event with the CEO of a SaaS leader. But this was quite some time ago. And I asked him how he came up with their freemium pricing model. A...
Can an Entrepreneur Back Out of a Signed Term Sheet Without Damaging Their Reputation?
Can an entrepreneur back out of a signed term sheet without damaging his/her reputation? I’m going to say Yes, probably. There is a lot of drama around broken term sheets. Mostly around VCs backing out, not founders. But here’s the thing — term sheet are term sheets....
The Playbook to Scaling Your Team in Hypergrowth with Flexport CRO Ben Braverman (Video + Transcript)
Ben Braverman explains how Flexport entered a competitive market with a unique model and continues to grow. Hiring senior leaders can set companies up to fail and see how sticking with a current, successful model can be the key to hypergrowth. Rely on your success,...
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