Hande Çilingir

14 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 9 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 12, 2022 by Hande Çilingir · across every show →

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Jul 12, 2022 negative
Insight
Çilingir: Sales candidates who can't sell founders in roleplay can't sell customers
“Don't forget that if they cannot sell you, they cannot sell also today to your customers.”
Hande Çilingir Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 4:45 Top 10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Çilingir | SaaStr
Jul 12, 2022
Disclosure
Çilingir: Insider's sales team is responsible for expansion revenue
“For us, by the way, our sales function is responsible from the expansion revenue.”
Hande Çilingir Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 16:10 Top 10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Çilingir | SaaStr
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Insight
Çilingir: Sales managers must add deal value, not just manage dashboards
“Your sales directors or managers who are going to manage your sales team shouldn't be only a dashboard guy, because they should have a positive contribution on the sales processes. If there is, like, enterprise relationship that they need to manage, then they …”
Hande Çilingir Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 13:44 Top 10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Çilingir | SaaStr
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Insight
Çilingir: The primary mistake scaling founders make is refusing to admit errors
“During the journey of the growth, we do a lot of mistakes, and very interestingly, the first mistake is not accepting that we are mistaken.”
Hande Çilingir Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 2:28 Top 10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Çilingir | SaaStr
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Insight
Çilingir: Free POCs fail because prospects treat them like unused gym memberships
“We don't give it, like, for free, because if it's going to be free, It's like a free gym membership. If it's going to be free, you will never go there, right?”
Hande Çilingir Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 21:15 Top 10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Çilingir | SaaStr
Jul 12, 2022
Disclosure
Çilingir reviews sales pipeline metrics bi-weekly despite having a CRO
“Even as a CEO, even I have a CRO who is responsible for the growth, I am running a growth meetings bi-weekly and going through the old sales pipeline metrics to be able to understand What is wrong? What is going, what's going right? What's not going right?”
Hande Çilingir Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 14:17 Top 10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Çilingir | SaaStr
Jul 12, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Çilingir: Insider Reaches 25% of Global Internet Users
“Currently we are reaching 25% of the world's internet users.”
Hande Çilingir Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 0:29 Top 10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Çilingir | SaaStr
Jul 12, 2022
Insight
Çilingir: Expansion revenue should equal at least 30% of acquisition revenue
“And by the way, according to numbers, ideally your expansion revenues should consist at least like, 30% of your new acquisition revenue.”
Hande Çilingir Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 16:17 Top 10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Çilingir | SaaStr
Jul 12, 2022 bullish
Opinion
Çilingir: Growth remains king over capital efficiency and profitability
“At the end of today, even in this, again, macroeconomic environment, where people are starting to look for also profitability or capital efficiency, still, ladies and gentlemen, growth is the king.”
Hande Çilingir Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 29:01 Top 10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Çilingir | SaaStr
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Insight
Çilingir: Founders should never read business books by non-entrepreneurs
“Never ever read a book from someone who hasn't been, or written by someone who hasn't been an entrepreneur before. Because an entrepreneur can be actually precisely Understood by another entrepreneur.”
Hande Çilingir Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 24:18 Top 10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Çilingir | SaaStr
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Opinion
Çilingir: Most SaaS companies that fail lack expansion products
“And most of the companies which failed in SaaS, as far as I observe they are actually lack of expansion products.”
Hande Çilingir Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 18:29 Top 10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Çilingir | SaaStr
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Insight
Çilingir: SaaS founders must track pipeline inputs before focusing on MRR
“If you ask a SaaS founder, what is the most important metric for you, for your sales pipeline, or sales, like, cycle, if they are going to answer, like, of course, MRR, et cetera, it's not right. What is, what are the things that causes MRR? How many leads the…”
Hande Çilingir Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 11:51 Top 10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Çilingir | SaaStr
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Insight
Çilingir: Hiring Sales Reps Without a Competitive Background Fails in SaaS
“So in that case, when you hire a sales representative or salespeople, if they are coming from a non-competitive background, trust me, it's not going to work.”
Hande Çilingir Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 6:03 Top 10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Çilingir | SaaStr
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Insight
Çilingir: Top reps from Adobe or Salesforce often fail at startups
“Being able to sell this product of Adobe or Salesforce type companies doesn't mean that they can be also successful salespeople in your own organization, because every single product is different.”
Hande Çilingir Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 4:02 Top 10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Çilingir | SaaStr
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