SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. Lead generation tools do change, but the basic motions of sales and marketing haven’t changed much.

Scale 233

Scale Sales Hiring AI Sales Recruiting 233

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.

Part-Time VPE 257

Part-Time VPE Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 257

SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2023

You have to understand how venture capital works. No one has time to have coffee with all of those folks. 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. It never works, folks!

Part-Time VPE 178

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Hiring CTO Hire 178

OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

However, as soon as a founder/CEO raises venture capital (VC) they have decided to take investing partners along on the journey. Hired CEOs: It’s the Board’s Company vs. It’s My Company to Run. We think we should hold off doing channels until we’ve debugged the sales model. Nothing can take that away.

Sales Hiring 59

Sales Hiring CTO Hire Venture Capital Technical Advisors 59

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. He was investing in internet companies. ” We had to do that three times. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. He and I went to MIT together. And selling with passion.

Sales Recruiting 163

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 163

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. You’ve spent almost your entire career in venture, back when an $800 million exit might be exciting, before any of this stuff was hot. And how do you hack it?

Sales Recruiting 162

Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 162

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Pietro Bezza | Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures. We are a $50 million fund based in Lisbon, and we invest mainly in seed stage.

New CTO 142

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 142