SaaStr

JULY 12, 2024

Grafana Labs chose remote first from the beginning because the three founders were located in New York, Sweden, and Australia. You can get wowed by someone saying they have this playbook that worked at x company and that they can apply it to yours. It doesn’t get worse than that from a time zone coverage perspective.

GTM 87

GTM X-functional Meeting Pitch 87

Hubspot

AUGUST 9, 2018

It integrates with Google's Oreo-level autofill function and Android's accessibility system, so it works consistently for any sign-in you come across on your Android. If you typically only use passwords for websites on iOS and OS X devices, you could use Apple's free built-in password manager, Keychain. 1Password ($36/year).

X-functional 71

X-functional User Experience Contact Product 71

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Daniel, you’re in New York, which I think is still part of America, of our other side of the country, but quite different. How do you think about the Bay Area over there in New York? Now being in New York, I’ve built a big business previously to Greenhouse in New York. Thrive, etc.

Price 89

Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 89

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The New York Times named this urge to buy something the “TikTok Feta Effect,” after a viral recipe for baked feta pasta resulted in the cheese selling out nationwide in the U.S. Use the TikTok Creator Marketplace (TTCM) and the advanced search function to discover creators to collaborate with.

Customers 115

Customers Entertainment E-commerce Objectives and Key Results 115

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I interviewed Tina Donati, Head of Marketing at Alloy Automation, to learn how each marketing function can use data visuals: Use data visuals internally—extensively. Bubble charts display three dimensions of data: an x-axis, a y-axis, and the size of the data point. The variations are placed on top of each other around a central axis.

Objectives and Key Results 110

Objectives and Key Results Represent Presentation Promote 110

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 5, 2019

We are so excited today to have a good friend and also one of the top operators in New York City on the show, Megan Bowen. Sam Jacobs: You said that sales and account management are the best functions from which to start a career. Starting Out in Sales and Account Management. Walk us through why you think that.

Customers 59

Customers Account management X-functional Hospitality 59

A Sales Guy

AUGUST 21, 2015

You look at the United States military and how instructional design and organizational development function and you see a system that can take young men and women, with different socio and economic backgrounds from all over the country, and turn them into a single fighting force. That’s impressive! We’re relational by nature. I get that.

X-functional 60

X-functional Clients Growth Start-ups 60

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

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GTM 78

GTM Engineering Electricity X-functional 78

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

The idea of a weekend trip from New York, people live in New York, a weekend trip to London probably that’s not going to happen for a very long time. X and it’s not [inaudible 00:20:29]. I mean, there’s a couple public companies, several private companies, but it’s had step function.

E-commerce 73

E-commerce Retail Real Estate Growth 73

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

We have 1,000 employees across three locations, San Francisco, Denver, and New York, and everything in the past four years has grown by more than 10 X. You’ll be on your company team, your functional team, an agile cross functional working group. How do you challenge directly X-axis?

Drivers/motivators 74

Drivers/motivators X-functional Trust Cross-sell 74

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

I mean, even awareness about some of those very functional things need to kind of be surfaced. The New York Times has had like a bunch of different articles that they’ve published, I would say like over the last six to 12 months, for crypto newbies, I would say. Phyllis: Yeah, it’s interesting. Phyllis : Yes.

Pipeline 98

Pipeline B2B Go To Market Sales 98

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

It uses the formula PPVVC=S (Pain x Power x Vision x Value x Control = Sale) to help salespeople accurately gauge the probability of closing a deal. This #1 New York Times bestseller is exactly the book you need to clarify your purpose and take the right action to win. The Little Red Book of Selling.

Sales 143

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 143

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

I broke into SaaS in 2009 I was the second sales hire and the 10th overall hire at a New York City based SaaS business called Zocdoc. QUESTION : As a sales leader, how do you manage expectations across the organization with product and other functions? Some of you might be familiar with it. It’s a great question.

Quota 100

Quota Sales Healthcare Territory 100

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Oh, and there’s that new DVD I want. via The New York Times). Eventually, they could make statements like, “When someone suddenly starts buying X and Y, along with A and B, they could be getting close to delivery. So, the real function when we design technologies is how can we take out steps?

Conversion 90

Conversion X-functional Launch Technology 90

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

The idea of a weekend trip from New York, people live in New York, a weekend trip to London probably that’s not going to happen for a very long time. X and it’s not [inaudible 00:20:29]. I mean, there’s a couple public companies, several private companies, but it had step function.

X-functional 62

X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 62

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

You got to … Sometimes it’s slow and let it be slow, and then sometimes it’s really fast and really intense and you’ve got a lot going on, and that’s when you make your investments and sign up to work with new folks. How does that strike you today for new deals? It’s too much of a forcing function.

Pitch 66

Pitch Start-ups Up-sell Technology 66

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

And so it was this thousand X increase in terms of the size of the company. It was the number of required trainings we had to take went up by 10 X. Because I think at every single function it was sort of… If you’ve ever seen the movie 300, there’s the masses and masses. It was tedious in certain ways.

X-functional 53

X-functional Start-ups Negotiate Real Estate 53

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

” They will be able to point to measurable value X amount saved, or X user adoption, or X spend categories and a management, or X improvement in operational efficiency, whatever that may be. You can see it right behind you going across the bridge but can you see 10 X? It’s almost a step function.

Price 59

Price Retail X-functional Healthcare 59

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Not so that we’re functioning as a curation and we’re positioning it in a different kind of segment than it would normally be on our site. Insert company name X did Y. It might be the New York Times or Wall Street Journal kind of column all about your CEO or your CMO or about your culture as a business.

Pipeline 51

Pipeline B2B Sales Pitch 51

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

I began my career in new product development and starting in 2011 got really excited about the high growth phase of a company. I was on the product team and saw this opportunity for us to work more cross functionally across the company and focus heavily on retention and monetization. If you value speed, you might up in for an Uber X.

Price 40

Price X-functional Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 40

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

AdWords Editor makes copying Campaigns really simple, and AdWords has added a copy function within the native web app itself, also. For example, a 24 hour call center in New York that does brisk business from California around 7pm Pacific would be poorly served by a day-parting schedule that is set to lower bids at 10pm Eastern.

Territory 111

Territory CTR Campaign Objectives and Key Results 111

Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 5, 2023

All I remembered seeing at the time was what felt like a PR puff piece published by the New York Times. Nayak said no: “I think it’s risky for Google — or for anyone else, for that matter, to turn over everything to a system like these deep learning systems as an end-to-end top-level function.

Objectives and Key Results 145

Objectives and Key Results X-functional Launch Presentation 145

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

. “Demand Gen campaigns combine image + video ads in one place and can be used to drive conversions, site visits and actions like sign-up and add-to-cart across YouTube, Discover and Gmail,” Google Ads Liaison Ginny Marvin explained in a thread on X. The enhanced campaigns aimed to include advanced reports about users.

E-commerce 126

E-commerce Launch Campaign Retail 126

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Instead of spending X millions per year, could we spend 2X?” When you’re going from X tens of millions of dollars with an eye towards 100 plus, you have to start thinking in multiyear planning horizons, which I don’t think is obvious. Check for them, X for us, check for them, X for us. It was awesome.

Growth 55

Growth X-functional Start-ups Conversion 55

SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2020

Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, New York, Philly, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and a few others. We also didn’t try to build a lot of the centralized functions too early. Would you like to talk to one of our reps about X?” That’s what Flexport did. So today, we’re global.

Government 81

Government Up-sell Contract X-functional 81

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But yeah, so that story kind of growing out of … at the time, the company was located in New York and it was a fintech developer community and it was just kind of growing out of that. A lot of my time is focused on internal infrastructure building, making sure that the company is functioning as it needs to function.

Finance 56

Finance X-functional Non-Profits Launch 56

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In fact, I’m hosting my QBR in New York this week and that’s one of the things that we have so many new team members. So one of the things that I did, pretty early on here as we knew we were going to scale the team, was I set up an enablement function. Harry Stebbings: Totally get you, no, absolutely.

Finance 55

Finance X-functional CRM Engineering 55

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

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

So don’t be too upset if you’re not yet at the four X number, but know for sure that if you don’t get beyond that, you’re not going to have a very profitable company in the long run. Are we seeing the blurring of lines between these functions, do you think? David Skok: Yes, absolutely. Ed Zitron: Yeah.

Non-Profits 79

Non-Profits Up-sell Start-ups Product 79

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

And then in the enterprise, some of them tie them to multi-year deals, but there’s actually no impact on conversion rate from the free trial to a paid customer as a function of the contract value. He is the CEO of Kustomer, which is a really fast growing customer support platform based in New York.

Contract 10

Contract Price Commission Conversion 10

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

And then in the enterprise, some of them tie them to multi-year deals, but there’s actually no impact on conversion rate from the free trial to a paid customer as a function of the contract value. He is the CEO of Kustomer, which is a really fast growing customer support platform based in New York.

Contract 46

Contract Price Commission Conversion 46

Hubspot

OCTOBER 18, 2011

So, if you have a blog and the New York Times links to that blog, here's the way it works: Google says, Oh, I already trust the New York Times. The New York Times links to your blog some portion of the trust and authority that New York Times has built transfers over to you through that link.

Follow-up 78

Follow-up Real Estate Up-sell Promote 78

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Businesses can capitalize on this need by using a fixed subscription model with a monthly allocation of X units. Because you must be able to bill for all of the products you quote, it’s important to have all of the CRM, CPQ and billing functions on a single platform. Customers can then pay for extra units as needed.

Price 52

Price Electricity E-commerce Finance 52