SaaStr
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
You’ll need to hire aggressively to get to the next level and continue that rapid growth. But what roles should you hire for, and what will your org chart look like at each stage? In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Head of Sales.
SaaStr
JUNE 27, 2019
The second is adoption of DevOps practices, and the third is a focus on a digital customer experience. It was an inside sales team calling on all regions around the world. I’ll start with some of the easy ones on the sales side. When we were SMB focused in the early years, our sales cycles were quick.
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Baremetrics
OCTOBER 31, 2021
When you first get started, effectively any hosting setup will do the trick: your application is small, you have relatively few customers, and perhaps (depending on your sales process) expectations around performance and reliability are a bit lower during the beta phase. Decide how much DevOps you want in your Development.
Frontegg
DECEMBER 2, 2021
A few weeks later, we were already running a beta version of the first product capability-as-a-service for a design partner. When building a company 5 years ago, the sales motion and who’s going to be the user/buyer/champion for a potential deal was pretty clear to the founding team. Your product needs to support top-down (demo?POC?Sales)
Baremetrics
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
The main accounts are: Cost of Revenue. Sales & Marketing. We’re using Quickbooks Online as the example accounting software, but you should be able to follow along if you use something different, such as Xero. First, let’s look at setting up your Cost of Revenue (sometimes called Cost of Sales, or Cost of Goods Sold ).
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?
OPEXEngine
OCTOBER 5, 2021
In more mature software companies, we see oversized returns for companies that are moving to software-as-a-service subscription models (see Figure 1). While there were some worries that the transition to the service subscription model would reduce software’s traditional stickiness, those concerns may have been overwrought.
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