Blog Posts, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Growth, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts, Videos
Sandi Lin, CEO and Co-founder of Skilljar, and Kathy Lord, its CRO, share their guide on how and when to hire your first chief revenue officer.
Blog Posts, Growth, Product, Sponsored Posts
If there’s one lesson I’ve learned from leading product at fast-growing startups, it’s that there’s no one way to lead product. You do, however, need to be intentional about how…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Hiring, Leadership
In the past, we’ve touched on several different ideas to help you scale, to do Even Better: Imagine capital doesn’t matter. And see where that takes you. More here. And…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Marketing
Events. Not digital events, which exploded since Covid. But good old-fashioned, in-a-convention-center events are coming back. And boy, has it been a while. Many events like Coachella, Dreamforce, SaaStr Annual,…
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Blog Posts, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Growth, Marketing, Podcasts, Videos
Two years ago, Notion was just 10 people building a product that had a few dozen diehard fans. In conversation with Brandwatch’s Abadesi Osunsade, Ivan will share how he thinks about community as one of Notion’s unfair advantages, and why this has been a game-changer for the business.
Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth
120% NRR: Your revenue doubles in 5 years even with no new customers 110% NRR: Your revenue doubles in 8 years even with no new customers 100% NRR: Your revenue…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth, Sales
Lately at SaaStr, we’ve become more and more buyers of SaaS software ourselves. Our own tiny little team and organization has grown, and we have to start putting the infrastructure…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Q&A
Ah, the age-old question of if you really need salespeople these days. Isn’t that kind of … old school? Can’t bots replace them? Well, there are probably at least 3…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Other, Sponsored Posts
We defied all market odds and became one of the fastest growing software companies ever, bootstrapping our way to $20M ARR. And unlike most of today’s startups, we didn’t do it the traditional way.
Blog Posts, Growth, Marketing, Marketing
I personally was terrible at many growth tactics, growing Adobe Sign / EchoSign. I didn’t know much about anything other than direct sales at the time. I’ve sure learned a…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Sales
A great VP doesn’t make the plan every single month But a great VP never hides the facts or allocates blame when they miss it — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️…
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Blog Posts, Growth
The 4 things that matter most are things that it’s often hard to take too seriously in the early days. Culture? Yes, there’s nothing more important. But in the early…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Hiring, Marketing
The best CMOs are very good at promotions That's part of the job, after all Just make sure at least 50% of their energy goes into promoting the company, and…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Leadership, Sales
The biggest mistake folks make when they go to hire a VP of Sales is hiring a top AE that's never really built a team Being the top rep at…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Hiring, Leadership
That’s insightful @jasonlk https://t.co/fpV404XhBV — Elkanah Carnell Reed (@ElkanahReed) April 6, 2021 The top SaaS companies grow faster than ever these days. And that means your initial leadership team often…
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