SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. Bob Moore: At that 50 plus era, there’s a function for this. 298: Startup success is not exclusive to Silicon Valley.

X-functional 52

X-functional Start-ups Drivers/motivators Go To Market 52

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

How to build operational excellence into your organization at different stages of the growth curve. 2023 saw the team grow from 6-10 reps, which is pretty modest, and they built an SDR function. At the end of ‘22, they started a small pilot and grew that function from one and two BDRs to a team of 10 and then 12. They grew 2.5x

Go To Market 101

Go To Market GTM X-functional Objectives and Key Results 101

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. If you missed episode 128, check it out here: How to Unshackle Your Career Growth With a Mentor with Tom Martin. Vishal works to prevent his customers from having to read each contract one by one.

Contract 107

Contract X-functional Objectives and Key Results Legal 107

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. Rather than having this feeling of disconnected functional areas, everyone in the company knows what to work on. So, sales in my view is best run on a quarterly plan.

Finance 111

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 111

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does your customer success and customer support functions change with the move to enterprise? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. A classic example is a Shopify selling to, let’s say, contract. inaudible] in all three, in every stage of growth.

GTM 52

GTM Price Up-sell Product 52

Hubspot

AUGUST 17, 2021

Sometimes, it means they’re selling a lot of Product X when the company is pushing for sales of Product Y. In these examples, maybe Product X is a lot easier to sell and comes with a higher commission rate than Product Y. Sales Operations has historical sales data, allowing you to build a realistic and growth-oriented quota.

Commission 83

Commission Quota X-functional Finance 83

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

All were growing 15%-20% a month, so we called them “The 20%ers club” Did that growth last? Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. How did they do? All of them! CEO of Algolia.

Price 92

Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 92

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function. That doesn’t mean to say, you’re going to do away with the functions. But just today announced essentially 100% year over year growth that essentially a $3 billion run rate.

Retail 77

Retail Start-ups Drivers/motivators Up-sell 77

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Yes, Zoom and Shopify and folks that were huge COVID beneficiaries had a bit of a hit, but even those have resumed their growth path. Jason Lemkin: Then there are different types of growth, late growth and growth. So crossover completely frozen, late growth semi-frozen. X this year. It could come back.

Quota 78

Quota Growth Product Closing 78

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

Annual contracts: To what extent do annual contracts dominate today? Why does Tom think in the early days one should be wary of signing too many multi-year contracts? How does Tom think about calculating churn when it comes to multi-year contracts? And the first one as you said, Harry, is around annual contracts.

Contract 10

Contract Price Commission Conversion 10

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2020

390: Randy Rayess is the Co-Founder @ Outgrow, a growth marketing platform that enables marketers to build interactive content/tools to increase customer engagement and boost demand generation. As you probably remember in the early 2010s, their mobile app store launched and kind of started to scale out.

A/B testing 79

A/B testing X-functional Launch Start-ups 79

Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2019

That tech served purposes like capturing leads directly from a website, automatically routing those leads to reps, increasing the volume of emails a human could send, enabling reps to make phone calls with a single click, and easily creating clean and crisp contracts for signature. As they move into the Growth Stage, they develop an Ops team.

Quota 70

Quota X-functional Strategize Contract 70