How fast can you scale a software business? 0 – 150 employees in 12 months…? How would you even manage that?! For Elias Torres, the CTO and co-founder of Drift, and my latest guest on the Escape Velocity podcast… it was easy. Elias is the stuff of legends. He’s a
Do you have your dream sales team yet? A team of high-converting closers who effortlessly book new accounts and funnel cash into your pockets until your revenue-pants are splitting at the seams? No? Neither did I.
“What the $%&# is a CSM… and how is that going to make me money?!” When I started out in business nearly 20 years ago, there was no such thing as a CSM. Those 3 letters just didn’t go together. Nowadays, most B2B SaaS businesses see a CSM as essential
How do you sell your SaaS? I mean… how does that process actually look, end to end, from meeting a buyer to pocketing a 7+ figure paycheck? Buying and selling a business isn’t like walking into a store, picking an item off the shelf and approaching the counter. There are
I have a confession… In my mid-20s, I was the worst leader. I was trying to run a team and was wildly out-of-touch with so-called “good leadership”. I just didn’t know it yet. I held a team offsite, a getaway with the executive team to reflect on the quarter, set
Hate to break it to you, but it’s not all about money. I mean it. Here’s an example… One of my coaching clients recently hit a milestone that we’ve been working towards for years: $1M per month in profit. After 9 years of hard work, he turned that dream into
Being a venture funded SaaS founder is like walking into a casino to bet all of your employees’ salaries… every single day. Your decision to make one choice over another – bet on red or black – can cost your company millions. A few wrong bets can dry up your
Alright, fine. I’ll go on record and say it. There is a huge difference between marketers who call themselves Growth Hackers… and those who actually know the SCIENCE of it. Using the term ‘Growth Hacker’ in your LinkedIn bio doesn’t matter. It never did. All that matters are the actual
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