OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

A Couple SaaS Generations Ago… Traditional software companies managed sales, product development, finance and HR in siloed organizations by function. Separate Sales, Marketing, R&D, Accounting/Finance organizations were headed by a senior executive. Cross functional management was attempted but often not effective.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Traditionally, it’s the chief officer of finance or operations. But promotional paths are a-changing, according to a time-series by Spencer Stuart summarized in Harvard Business Review’s “ Finding the Right CEO.” More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

And this is not just about something you do in a later stage, when you raise that $120,000,000 that PJ from Sherpa had done, but something you can do at the series A stage when you’re doing small hires to build out your team. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. So we think a little bit differently.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well. Do you create broader richer data sets and sell those back to companies for benchmarking purposes? Users come to us all the time and they say, Hey, this company looks awesome. Are they hiring? That goes to the hiring manager. In some cases it does.

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