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From 0 to $10m ARR, At What Point Do We Start Hiring and Whom?

SaaStr

. $1 M t o $ 3M ARR: Build the Foundation Sales : Once you have 2 reps consistently hitting quota, its time to hire your first VP of Sales. Theyll help you scale the team from 2 reps to 10+ and build a repeatable sales process. Youll also need to start layering in Sales Ops and Sales Enablement as the team grows.

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Four Steps to Scaling to $250M from Stack Overflow

SaaStr

Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO @ Stack Overflow recently shared with our community the four key pillars he feels are necessary to propel a company to scale upward. Is your product sound, and does it solve a big problem for customers, enough for you to scale? The four key pillars he lays out are: Product market fit & expansion.

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As Your Sales Team Scales, Focus on Your Middle

Tom Tunguz

Where should your sales enablement team focus their time? If the sales enablement teams had focus on the top quartile AEs and improve their performance by 20%, the company would have booked $9.3M. First, the sales enablement team has shown they can improve performance over a broader group of people.

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SaaStr Scale: Live, TODAY! Tune into sessions from Box, Asana, Calendly and More

SaaStr

SaaStr Scale 2021 is starting soon. 7:00 AM (40 MINS) – Product-led Growth: How to Execute Across the Full Funnel (and Mistakes We Made) with Reprise’s VP of Marketing and VP of Sales. 8:00 AM (50 MIN) – The Secrets to Building Your Marketing Engine To Drive Scale with Airtable CMO Archana Agrawal. LIVE TODAY!

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An Agile Approach to Sales Enablement Content

Sales Hacker

Content is the cornerstone of sales enablement, but creating it is a massive headache. Those are resources that most sales teams do not have, and resources that most marketing teams need to protect. Read on for a cursory overview of how Agile can be applied to creating sales content along with a few tips for getting started.

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How to Build a Successful Sales Enablement Initiative in 5 Steps

Sales Hacker

The same is true for sales enablement. In critical times, only sales enablement that’s been proven to move the needle will survive. For sales enablement, that’s challenging. A sales enablement framework that’s been proven to work. How to Approach Sales Enablement. What’s missing?

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Building Your Sales Enablement Technology Stack

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Source: Sales Hacker It’s fair to say that the sales enablement category has mirrored the impressive growth of the sales technology landscape as a whole (up and to the right). This front row seat gives me the opportunity to research, demo, trial, evaluate, purchase and ultimately, rollout sales enablement tools.