SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

In the run up to SaaStr Europa 2022 in Barcelona on June 7-8 , we’re taking a look at some of the top all-time SaaStr Europa sessions. But when entrepreneurs launch a SaaS business, it’s often quite hard to know how they’re doing. That equation basically makes up your profitability. Quickly on gross margin.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

Before diving into your questions, you’ll want to head over to the link below and sign up for an exciting event coming up this week. On Wednesday, March 27th, SaaStr is hosting AI Day, you can sign up for free at this link. Many folks in CS don’t want to hear that their outbound emails are horrific or that they don’t follow up.

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Price X-functional Growth B2B 93

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

David Sacks, General Partner at Craft Ventures joins the New New in Ventures to discuss The Cadence and how to structure around it while building a start-up. When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. I learned this operating myself.

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Finance X-functional Launch 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. You’re selling capital and I think it was a really transformative experience for me. This episode is sponsored by Brex.

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

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

What does Krish mean when he says, “In SaaS, you either sell to one of 2 customer profiles”? 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. Does one have to move to enterprise? You could.

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GTM Price Up-sell Product 51

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

I actually just got off the boat, Nick, and scurried up to make sure that I was ready to go for the presentation. Nick Mehta: I got to say pretty good internet up there on the Italian Alps, so I’m impressed. So, you teed it up really well. One, it starts high up in the sales process, right? Jay Snyder: Yeah.

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Retail Start-ups Drivers/motivators Up-sell 78

Hubspot

AUGUST 17, 2021

In their book, it doesn’t matter what figure you set, the reps will sell what they can sell. Whenever I encounter someone who feels this way, I bring up the story of the four-minute mile. I’ve had countless conversations with sales leaders who tell me that their reps just aren’t selling the "right type" of deals.

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Commission Quota X-functional Finance 82

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

As we gear up for SaaStr Europa 2023 in London on 6-7 June and SaaStr Annual 2023 in the SF Bay Area on 6-7 September , we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from over the year, that we can still learn from today. OK, so straight up. Next up, we’ve got Nicolas Dessaigne.

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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.

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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? And the first one as you said, Harry, is around annual contracts.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Open it up if I can help in any way, or I can make it up, but anyone got a question they’ve got to start? Sometimes we’re not as founders, sometimes founders sell their company because they don’t end up being deeply passionate about what it does. So sell your product. X this year.

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Quota Growth Product Closing 81

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. Harry Stebbings: Totally get you in terms of kind of resourcing up. Harry Stebbings: No, totally. I love the calculator is [inaudible].

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A/B testing X-functional Launch Start-ups 77

Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2019

If you sell it, you should know it, right? Well, in a previous life, I spent six years selling to, and thereby studying, Sales Operations. Doing that, you end up learning things that aren’t immediately obvious to everyone else. Shored up our weaknesses by adding tech. Why go so deep? And guess what?

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