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Dear SaaStr: Is a Big Market Really Better Than a Niche Market?

SaaStr

SaaS eSignature Market: From $1 Million in 2006 to $1 Billion in 2018 to $5 Billion in 2023 | SaaStr Dear SaaStr: I’ve Been Asked to Take Over as CEO of a 1 Year Old Startup with 20 Employees. One of the best sales people. And realize you are going to have to spend a lot more time recruiting that you’d planned.

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My Top 10 Year One SaaS Mistakes. Save Yourself Some Pain & Just Don’t Make Them Yourself.

SaaStr

Not Hiring 2-3 Sales Reps to Start. More on that here: When You Hire Your First Sales Rep — Just Make Sure You Hire Two. I should have invested a little more in sales reps, more quickly, one we had some initial traction (see above). Should Have Spent Even More Time Recruiting & Upgrading the Team. My 10, FWIW.

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Forecasting Fintech’s Future and Keeping Culture Alive: A Q&A with the CEOs of BILL and Mercury

Andreessen Horowitz

Whether it’s creating better tools to write code and test code, better tools for customers to engage with reps, better tools for sales teams to engage with their prospects, all those things are happening inside of Bill. I’ve been an entrepreneur since 2006. GenAI comes in to make employees efficient.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. We are the soldiers companies are trying to recruit to help them win the battle for talent. The second army are your main competitors.

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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A Decade of Learnings from Y Combinator (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Who’s going to lead sales? Who’s going to be responsible for recruiting? Twitch started as an online reality TV show, and if you look at the story, it started in 2006, and by 2012 it was worth $24. But after you raise money and you have a couple of employees, suddenly there are some hard decisions to make.

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Founded: 2006. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+ Recorded Future.