SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

In SaaS, once you have even a few million in ARR, the #1 challenge is recruiting top-tier VPs and building a truly top-tier management team: SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales.

Scale 243

Scale Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Fractional VPE 243

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2020

In SaaS, it is recruiting your VPs and management team : SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. You’ll need more than 5–6 core engineers to go big. That’s a different, and critical, job than CTO.

Part-Time VPE 233

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Fractional VPE Sales Recruiting 233

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. I don’t know anything about sales.

Sales Hiring 253

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 253

SaaStr

JULY 5, 2019

But I got to part of the management team and make mistakes, and work cross-functionally with the other leaders and managers. Third, I then managed a small team. This was critical to learning what management really was. The first team I managed I inherited, and I was terrible at it. And I learned to recruit.

Part-Time VPE 160

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE CTO Hire Sales Recruiting 160

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

I can assure you that most people in the tech industry spend countless hours thinking about how to make this happen, investing only a fractional percentage of time thinking about their impact. Hopefully jack up your growth rate enough to be acquired for a massive sum of money. SaaS is way more of a team sport than most companies realize.

Part-Time VPE 102

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

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

Part-Time VPE 198

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 198

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. As well as being distributed from a business standpoint, having people in each of the offices where we want to have a a big presence business-wise, we also have engineers, product managers and designers in six of those 11 offices.

Engineering 127

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 127