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What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In?

SaaStr

IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m He asked which to hire first. If you have a few nickels in the bank, and you somehow find a great VP a half stage or even full stage early, just hire her. Hiring is so hard as it is. Make the hire now. ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m More here: [link].

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How SMB Digital Brands Can Win the Best Talent

FastSpring

If you’re running a smaller digital business, you may find it challenging to hire great talent. In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Lizzie Mintus Founder and CEO of Here’s Waldo Recruiting and host of The Heres Waldo Podcast about her thoughts on: The most effective recruiting strategies for SMBs.

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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

SaaStr

These are all full-time jobs by $1m ARR. Fixing it yourself becomes the biggest time sink and excuse for not hiring there is. You end up spending all your time backfilling roles you should have hired. And even worse, you often sort of give up trying to make the hire. Field vs. mid-market vs SMB early.

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30+ Tough Learnings from Losing a Top Customer

SaaStr

Another top mistake SMB folks make trying to sell enterprise. You have to be careful to pair that with someone strong to manage the relationship, that has more time and that also can be trusted. As a founder, you’ll just run out of time to properly manage key customers and partners yourself. Are we sure?

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level. And for good reason.

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Here’s What Enterprise Buyers Look for When Evaluating Software

OpenView Labs

At some point in every software company’s growth comes the great challenge of tackling the enterprise market. brought together CTOs from PlanGrid, One Medical and AdRoll to discuss what they look for when evaluating software. A lot of our clients want to target CTOs or C-level executives,” said Valentino Volonghi, CTO of AdRoll.

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Making the jump from Customer Success to CEO with FranConnect’s Gabby Wong

ChurnZero

But promotional paths are a-changing, according to a time-series by Spencer Stuart summarized in Harvard Business Review’s “ Finding the Right CEO.” I think it’s changing, and the Spencer Stuart data in Harvard Business Review show that it’s changing too. We hire a third-party firm.