SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO. Patrick Campbell, CEO, ProfitWell.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Lars was one of his early customers at Cloudera and I met him at Dreamforce in 2013 and unbeknownst to me and my business partner Matt Gourniak, he came up to us. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. Lars said, “Hey I found a much better CPQ.”

Sales Recruiting 170

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 170

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

” From a sales perspective, how is that going to change sales? The fact that a lot of our portfolio comes in enterprise, they got a lot of sales done or relationship building done around conferences whether it’s-. What if this is 36 months? What if nobody can get on a plane until summer of 2021 the earliest?”

Investment 160

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 160

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? How does David think about payback period on a per rep basis?

Scale 190

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 190

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

I’ve been working remotely since 2013, when I walked into the office of the best boss I’ve ever had and asked for permission to work remotely. For example, if the product isn’t up to snuff or if the onboarding process is just a bit rough, even perfect execution by the sales and marketing teams will yield lackluster results.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands. Founded : 2013. from 500 Durians, Kima Ventures, and others. It also gives recruiters a faster process through its chatbot and application management tool.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

To sum it up, I believe the winners of this “installation phase” were the companies which managed to overcome these three challenges and which have picked the right early “use case” (sales pipeline management for Salesforce, content marketing for Hubspot, HR for Workdays…). The timing aspect is crucial.

AI Search 70

AI Search AI B2B Software 70