SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the latest episode of CRO Confidential, host Sam Blond, partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with Ashley Kelly, VP of Global Sales Development at Rippling. For context – Ashley had previously helped Sam scale Brex’s outbound sales from $2M to over $300M in ARR as Senior Director of SDR.

Sales Hiring 316

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Outbound Sales Team 316

SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2022

Scaling your sales team can be one of the hardest things to do in SaaS. When do you hire for outbound? What’s the best way to help your sales team navigate today’s changing markets and changing priorities? And what’s the right time to fill crucial sales leadership roles? So now what?

Scale 278

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scaling 278

SaaStr

MAY 3, 2021

And if your team knows how to spend it, correctly — find a way to get them the capital they need to grow even faster than plan. A new edition, new services, an outbound sales team, an account management / upsell team. You still need to spend 15-20% of your time in sales. Add a layer.

Part-Time VPE 290

Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 290

SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2021

“Give the VP of Sales More Time” This is always terrible advice. If a VP of Sales can’t improve things in one sales cycle or less — she never will. In one sales cycle, or less. “The Leads are There, the Problem is the Sales Team.” And you are better off without her.

Part-Time VPE 348

Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting 348

OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. Those with experience in both B2B and B2C sales know that B2B is a lot tougher—the deals are bigger, there’s often more than one decision-maker, and the competition is intense. For all those reasons, hiring and management must be on point.

Sales Hiring 80

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting B2B 80

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And the primary burden of your product and GTM execution can fall on an effective technical leader and proven sales executive. While the motion is slightly different, the genuine excitement that helped you make your first sale or close your first round should be leveraged in selling candidates as well. Cash is no longer a top concern.

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Startup Scale 82

Chart Mogul

MARCH 26, 2018

Learn how InsureSign — an e-signing solution for the insurance industry — uses ChartMogul to better understand revenue and get a detailed picture of sales performance. For its first six years, the e-signature startup I founded, InsureSign, used only inbound sales efforts. But now, how could we keep tabs on their progress?

Sales Recruiting 49

Sales Recruiting Sales Outbound Sales Team Healthcare 49