SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2023

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.

Sales Recruiting 216

Sales Recruiting Marketing Sales Hiring Market Segmentation 216

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

At a16z’s recent Connect/Fintech event, a16z Partner Alex Immerman sat down for a broad conversation with Immad Akhund , co-founder and CEO of banking startup Mercury , and René Lacerte, founder and CEO of financial services company BILL. I’ve been an entrepreneur since 2006. GenAI comes in to make employees efficient.

Payments 110

Payments Forecasting Payment Services Payment Solutions 110

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. 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. Best in class Late-stage Startups (e.g. Mid-stage startups.

Software Review 224

Software Review Outsourcing Services Software Outsourced Development 224

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

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%.

Sales Hiring 157

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 157

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Michael Seibel is CEO and a partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv He has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013, advised hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders. Who’s going to lead sales? and Socialcam. The entire time.

Sales Hiring 167

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 167

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

First company was Greenfield startup to IPO. Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. The WebPT store starts in 2006. Heidi Jannenga : When we’ve again, first started going out and looking for funding, everybody wants to amplify your sales strategy.

Scale 169

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 169

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Have you ever wondered how to become a VP of Sales? By the time I was 30 years old, I was working at Oracle (via startup acquisition) helping them build the #1 performing SaaS sales team in my region. At the time, I had two years as a VP of Sales under my belt. How can you become a VP of Sales? So how did I do it?

Sales Hiring 69

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 69