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. Q: What’s the number one challenge for scale-up founders? You’ll need more than 5–6 core engineers to go big.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Dig deeper on a lot of titles during recruiting. A "VP of Revenue" often knows nothing about inside sales or building a sales team. A "CRO" often doesn't want to do sales anymore. These folks rarely have any idea how to do demand gen, ABM, growth hacking, etc. But never a sales team. .
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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. She can be your CTO forever.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
But a great head of demand gen (or maybe growth hacking if you are SMB) should be very accretive at even $20k in MRR. More on that here and a great video discussion below: You’ll probably be ready for your first VP of Sales by $1m in ARR. This will seem crazy early to many of you. Earlier is better.
SaaStr
JUNE 29, 2019
The Playbook: To Recruiting Your Sales Team, with Brex CSO Sam Blong. To Growth Hacking at Scale, with ex-Drift and Segment VP Growth Guillaume Cabane. To Defining the Journey from Prospect to Champion with Kathy Lord, SVP Sales at Intacct. To Scaling High-Performing Teams, with Gusto COO Lexi Reese.
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 21, 2018
Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. Then, the sales team went to work. When making a sales hire, Max pays attention to the way candidates approach getting the job.
yoursales
JANUARY 28, 2022
Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?
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