SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The backup of 2020 was great, 2021 comes in and somehow we have 600 unicorns and everyone can burn 500 million a year or have huge sales teams. But the meta point is this, if you’re recruiting in 2024, beware of the “Lost Generation” candidate and persona you may come across. It’s part of the job now.

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Sales Recruiting Trends Sales Hiring Software Review 310

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

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. We’ve talked about this a lot on SaaStr, but hiring a true VP of Sales before you have 2 reps hitting quota (and thus a repeatable, if not yet fully repeating process) is too early.

Part-Time VPE 363

Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scale 363

SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2021

Maybe you think developers are weird beasts that type on a keyboard pushing out code, and then as soon as they become indispensable, they quit. At his core, Jeff Lawson is a software developer first, and the CEO of Twilio second. You might also include developers on sales calls from time to time — it makes everyone feel heard.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s the most common objection you’ll get in SaaS sales … Not Right Now. No one needs another piece of business software. It can’t strategically improve sales software, financial software, quoting software, recruiting software, QA processes, call center software, etc.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Technical Review Software Review 309

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

I thought it would be worth drilling down deeper into each of them, and sharing the learnings and mistakes: 1/ Spending less time fixing things, more time recruiting senior folks to own them. No one spends enough time recruiting as it is, after $1m ARR or so. Yes, you can manage the sales team yourself. You can do this.

Part-Time VPE 290

Part-Time VPE Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 290

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 18, 2019

The template is broken into six sections: People, Bookings & Revenue, Cash, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success. This section covers employee satisfaction, headcount, and recruiting metrics. It’s important to track the number of leads in the conversion rates to sales generated by sales.

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Metrics Sales Recruiting Startup Headcount 250

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Lizzie Mintus Founder and CEO of Here’s Waldo Recruiting and host of The Heres Waldo Podcast about her thoughts on: The most effective recruiting strategies for SMBs. So during the intro, I kind of talked about how you run here’s Waldo recruiting.

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SMB Sales Recruiting Branding Sales Hiring 102

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2022

G2 is the largest and most trusted software marketplace, helping 60 million people every year make smarter software decisions based on authentic peer reviews. Zoho offers beautifully smart software to help you grow your business.

Payments 49

Payments Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting Onboarding 49

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Signal can come from many places (sales team notes, customer support tickets, etc) IT Incident Management: Similar to the security alert example. Not the best start to cloud software earnings season! Follow along to stay up to date!

Systems Review 144

Systems Review Cloud AI Artificial Intelligence 144

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

Instead, due to a decade-long exodus from Wall Street, the strategic CFO has burst onto the tech scene. The team is typically highly cross-functional, working together with sales, product, engineering, and marketing, and the goal is to help the other teams make better decisions through data and financial modeling.

Scale 239

Scale Finance Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting 239

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Product : Vanta Your deal is almost closed, and all that’s left is the security review. With Vanta Questionnaire Automation, go-to-market teams can complete security reviews up to 5 times faster, helping you close deals in less time than ever. Nine lessons from going multi-product, drawing on examples from both Stripe and Watershed.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring AI Search 111

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Product : Vanta Your deal is almost closed, and all that’s left is the security review. With Vanta Questionnaire Automation, go-to-market teams can complete security reviews up to 5 times faster, helping you close deals in less time than ever. Link to GPT. Link to GPT.

Sales Recruiting 107

Sales Recruiting Software Review Scale AI 107

FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

How to go about recruiting the RIGHT affiliates to help drive meaningful growth in your business. Are you looking for a merchant of record that will help you grow your subscription software business? He’s really well known for proper attribution models and putting value in commissions where value are due.

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Sales Recruiting Software Review Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 113

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Storyblok started with a leadership-first hiring plan and a recruitment strategy that involved the following: A test to know how candidates handle different tasks and their expertise level. Their first step to achieving this was hiring a sales leader to build a sales team.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scaling 245

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Recruiting is easier, but the things that don’t change are customers don’t care.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 260

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 20, 2024

As Upland’s Chief Revenue Officer, Matt Breslin oversees customer success, demand generation and communications, sales, revenue enablement, and revenue analysis, supporting our Shared Services Organization. Matt has 25 years of experience in the software industry, most recently leading a $700 million business at Infor.

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Sales Recruiting Software Review Software Sales 122

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2.

Software Review 251

Software Review Scale Technical Review SaaS 251

The Angel VC

APRIL 1, 2017

At the excellent SaaStr Annual 2016 conference about a year ago, a very experienced SaaS CEO said on stage that an internal recruiter can be a startup CEO’s secret superpower. If you can hire only one or two handful of people with your seed round, hiring anybody who doesn’t either code or sell is hard to justify.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Startup Software Review 168

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The end-of-year holidays offer lots of opportunities for SaaS and software companies to boost sales and brand recognition. It also encourages their audience to follow their links and use the affiliate-specific coupon codes so that the affiliate gets credit for the sale. Align Affiliates and Your Other Marketing Channels.

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Sales Recruiting Software Review Social Media Branding 148

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

To help speed up the process, I reviewed six of the best systems on the market and put together a comprehensive list of what to look for as you make your final decision. Think about your accounting software, your employee scheduling software, and other essential tools related to payroll. Software as a service (SaaS).

Payment Services 145

Payment Services SaaS Payments Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 145

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 7, 2020

We’ve reached a point where managing shifts via spreadsheets or with pencil and paper has become outdated and downright inefficient. Enter employee scheduling software. These tools make it easier for managers to create schedules while always keeping the big-picture in mind. Which employee scheduling software is the best?

Software Review 145

Software Review Software Systems Review Sales Recruiting 145

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

PlanGrid builds beautiful, simple software for the construction industry. What’s worked for us is that we’re here to build beautiful productivity tools for an industry of field workers who have never seen great software before, and we believe that they deserve it. Tracy Young : Hi, my name is Tracy Young. How do you hire?”

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 290

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It’s actually quite simple: business process management (BPM) software. BPM software helps organizations of all sizes streamline operations and minimize waste. If optimizing your business processes sounds like a good idea, this post will tell you everything you need to know about how to find the perfect BPM software for you.

Payments 131

Payments Payment Solutions Software Review Payment Services 131

SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2023

2 “Give the VP of Sales more time.” You can’t always expect a great VP of Sales to double sales in 30-60-90 days. But you have to see progress in one sales cycle. If, in one sales cycle, things aren’t improving on several core metrics, they never will. The best VPs of Sales hit the ground running.

Part-Time VPE 242

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Hiring CTO Hire 242

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2019

He rises to number ten on our list due to the high session average and initial bookmarks by our attendees. Gainsight’s customer success software empowers companies to increase revenue and decrease customer churn. Henrique Dubugras started coding when he was just nine years old. Kyle Porter Salesloft Founder / CEO.

Sales Recruiting 172

Sales Recruiting Software Review Technical Review PayPal 172

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2022

Strong sales reps are the lifeblood of your business and how you choose to invest in them matters. For frontline sales managers, attributes like competency, quality of work, ease of execution, and length of contribution indicate reps’ overall job success, but you can’t rely on those inputs to tell you if they are personally satisfied.

Sales Recruiting 116

Sales Recruiting Scale Retention Sales 116

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This differs from traditional marketing in that instead of pre-paying for ad space or content, advertisers and individuals promote your products in exchange for commissions on sales they drive or other trackable activities like lead generation or trial downloads. Building a Healthy Affiliate Program.

Sales Recruiting 147

Sales Recruiting Marketing Social Media Software Review 147

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 256

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on customer success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide. List the tools, software, and resources the employee will use or have access to.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Sales Recruiting Customer Success Sales Hiring 52

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

In terms of research and development or generally the product and engineering functions, the people who produce your software, this really is a question of investability. If you’ve got a good setup, then more teams equal more product, and more product equals more marketing and more sales and all sorts of stuff like that.

Strategy 228

Strategy Software Review Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 228

Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I’ve been invited to speak on hundreds of podcasts and written for some of the most prestigious websites in business and marketing, like Buffer, HubSpot, Nasdaq, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, NBC, and more. I’ve never created LinkedIn content with the “goal” of lead generation or immediate-term sales.

Sales Recruiting 141

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Social Media 141

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2021

That idea might sound crazy, but it’s actually part of a new trend sales organizations are using to hit their revenue targets. Social selling is a way for sales professionals to use social media platforms to connect with prospects and start building relationships. LinkedIn Profile Tips for Sales Reps.

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Sales Recruiting Technical Review Sales Hiring Software Review 129

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Always make sure to talk with a sales representative and be as detailed as possible about your current and future situation to make sure they can handle everything you need. Do you need help for the foreseeable future or just for a one-off event like a round of recruitment? HR software. Types of services.

Outsourcing Services 118

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 118

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2018

In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.

Sales Recruiting 91

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Sales 91

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 8, 2018

In a time where buyer behavior has rendered cold calling nearly obsolete, successful sales prospecting begins with using tools like live chat and social media to build relationships. He’d go on to become the VP of Sales at Sprinklr, guiding the company through its own high growth period, before striking out on his own.

Social Media 186

Social Media Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 186

InsightSquared

MAY 15, 2019

It’s one of my favorite questions to ask a fellow professional in sales operations. Insurance sales rep. Account Manager. Sales Operations is Still Developing. Sales operations as a profession is growing, yet it is a comparatively new function in businesses. Sales Ops is Many Disciplines in One.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Review Sales 110

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. Use sales conversations as a tool to get product feedback. So how do you get there?

Sales Recruiting 119

Sales Recruiting Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring 119