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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

I mean, maybe you do, but I don’t know anyone right now with extra money, time, or people, right? Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. The problem was he couldn’t find a platform to use.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” After four months of an unprecedented global crisis, SaaS companies are bouncing back while product led growth businesses are trading at almost 2x higher revenue multiples they started with. Now’s the Time to Revisit Your Pricing.

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How Buffer Reached $20m in ARR by Focussing on Growing ARPA

Chart Mogul

Buffer’s mission is to empower their customers to build their brand and engage their audience on social media. While Baremetrics was fulfilling the desire for public transparency, internally the team was using Looker almost exclusively to track and report revenue metrics. Early in 2019, I had an epiphany moment. How was that possible?

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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Their job is to enable go-to-market teams through "joining the dots" between tools, teams & data, optimizing the business rules that drive growth. Selling has changed since Predictable Revenue was published.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. If I look at where we’ve invested in companies, we’ve done a Series A where there’s no revenue and we’ve done a Series A where there’s mid-single digit recurrent revenue.

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The B2B Marketplace Funding Napkin 2021

Point Nine Land

To add to this, B2B marketplaces tend to have various different business models (commission, SaaS, not monetizing in the beginning), which makes it very difficult to come up with one-size-fits-all metrics for each funding round. As a result, we could not collect as many data points as we do for our SaaS napkin.