PandaDoc

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Streamlined and easy-to-perform processes for data generation and effective ways to analyze performance appeals to small and midsize businesses. The sales reps will enjoy pretty straightforward processes for creating records and moving leads through the process. Lead generation X ? Social media integration X ?

X-functional 52

X-functional Territory CRM Lead generation 52

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

So, can you talk a little bit about the early days of going through that idea iteration phase, and how did you decide to launch Brex? Dashboard, which was a payments company back in Brazil that did payment processing, like Stripe, Braintree, or ePay, all those … That’s you guys’ versions of the company.

Launch 70

Launch Pitch Niche Negotiate 70

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

But the key again in industry-specific SaaS is understanding the business processes, understanding the critical problems and the issues, and really going deep in each one of these industries. I wouldn’t expect that to be the typical process, but it was pretty straightforward for us.

Price 62

Price Retail X-functional Healthcare 62

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

But when entrepreneurs launch a SaaS business, it’s often quite hard to know how they’re doing. This is basically designed around there being an intensive human interaction and human process to convince businesses to adopt your tools. This is also how Stripe continues to launch new products.

Price 98

Price Launch X-functional Contract 98

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. Vishal and I talk about what it’s like to start a company from nothing and how his experience at Backupify and InsightSquared helped inform the process. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Contract 108

Contract X-functional Objectives and Key Results Legal 108

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. You can get there by process of elimination.

Finance 112

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 112

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

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’ll become more concerned about the quality of deals from sales to onboarding to launch. They grew 2.5x

Go To Market 110

Go To Market GTM X-functional Objectives and Key Results 110

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. The next time you feel like you actually have a time tested, battle worn process that makes it faster and makes the outcome better.

X-functional 53

X-functional Start-ups Drivers/motivators Go To Market 53

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

What is the process to do it efficiently? 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. Does it have to be in person?

GTM 51

GTM Price Up-sell Product 51

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

One, it starts high up in the sales process, right? You need to discover in the sales process. 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. But so much is discovered in sales that’s lost often in that process.

Retail 88

Retail Start-ups Drivers/motivators Up-sell 88

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. Maybe, that means they’re selling one-year deals when the company wants two-year deals.

Commission 82

Commission Quota X-functional Finance 82

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

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. Daniel : We followed a lean start up approach to building our sales process. When we launched we couldn’t earn a six figures deal at that time.

Price 102

Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 102

ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2019

Be careful about contracts you sign and team training you invest in. It does not process or translate data, nor does it help you work with the output. They can now deliver a lot of the same functionality, and your main decision-making factor could be the pricing model. And its data-layer functionality is versatile.

GTM 124

GTM X-functional CRM Technology 124

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Chris Riccobono launched UNTUCKit -- a line of shirts that look good untucked -- after getting frustrated with how wrinkly and ill-fitting his regular button-down shirts were when he didn't tuck them in. Checking out what other people have come up with can be a great way to kick your own thought process into gear. Look online.

Minimum Viable Product 101

Minimum Viable Product Legal X-functional Networking 101

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? What one question must all founders be asking in the sales process? *

Contract 10

Contract Price Commission Conversion 10

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m pretty sure all those deals were in process before the crash. X this year. You don’t have to do every single function to still get a customer. For all these types of categories, I know it’s trite, but you just have to find your 10 X feature that someone will buy. The deals aren’t happening.

Quota 91

Quota Growth Product Closing 91

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2020

As you probably remember in the early 2010s, their mobile app store launched and kind of started to scale out. As you remember, very few people had mobile apps because it had just launched. And before we dive in, I guess into the hook, the question that I went with a little [inaudible] on is the ideation process.

A/B testing 84

A/B testing X-functional Launch Start-ups 84

Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2019

I learned their primary goals (personal and professional) to refine my value language… studied org charts and power dynamics to map out procurement process… learned about organizational misalignment to help create healthy tension… You get the idea. Engineered as much automation as we could in our sales process.

Quota 70

Quota X-functional Strategize Contract 70