SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

Another top mistake SMB folks make trying to sell enterprise. “That it was much easier to do more in order to keep that customer than to get a new “top” customer. ” — Echeyde Cubillo, Co-founder and CTO, Acme Ticketing. Your key champion might buy just 1 or 2 new products a year.

CTO Hire 328

CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO CTO 328

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

5/ Moving from CTO-led -> VPE-led dev team. Most of us hire a VP of Engineering to take over from our CTO because we see the CTO is getting burnt out, or has trouble building a dev team > 8-9 folks, or gets disinterested in solving technical debt, bugs, etc. Field vs. mid-market vs SMB early. More here.

Part-Time VPE 299

Part-Time VPE Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 299

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

At this year’s SaaStr Europa, Jason Lemkin, CEO and Founder of SaaStr, took the stage to answer the audience’s most pressing questions about the present and future of startups. It’s too much to learn on the fly for most new VPs of Sales. Q: What Do You Think About Specialization In This New Era Of Efficiency?

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CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 242

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. You will fail if you: 1) try to build a suite of products out of the gate, 2) focus solely on SMBs, or 3) have an MBA. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

Part-Time VPE 296

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 296

Payrix

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Historically, PCI compliance focused primarily on card-present transactions, such as those conducted at physical locations like gas stations and restaurants. addresses this shift by expanding its scope to include 64 new requirements that specifically target eCommerce vulnerabilities. There’s 64 new requirements in total.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payments compliance 113

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So up to 100-150K and SMB, we’re at 2K. For instance, my first rep from Marketo, he was the first rep at Marketo in New York. The peak of your day starts around 3:00PM because that’s when New York wakes up. Gaetan Gache t: The fact that you’re new is actually becomes a negative. In that case, it was Gap.

Scale 150

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 150

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR. Do you segment enterprise and SMB? Henry Schuck. Henry Schuck: Right.

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Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scale Investment 246