SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

You have to create a repeatable process if you’re going to scale up the sales team. The Number One Job of a VP Sales is Recruiting a Great Team. The number five on the top five things list that a VP of Sales does is close deals. I’m not saying they don’t close revenue as a VP of Sales.

Sales Hiring 278

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 278

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.). I said, “Holy crap.

Part-Time VPE 283

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 283

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

What are the core metrics founders should measure to determine the effectiveness of their reps and sales teams? Like a VP of engineering would go to some conference, and hear someone on stage talking about how they need to be spending all their time doing recruiting, etc, etc. We only have an engineering team.”

Part-Time VPE 276

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 276