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User Pilot
JULY 27, 2023
Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. What to do before building a team for your SaaS company You can’t just jump into hiring without some forethought, or you’ll make many mistakes. Before the hiring process, take some time to decide on your current needs and hire as your company grows.
Baremetrics
DECEMBER 7, 2023
The main benefits of categorizing your SaaS company’s expenses are more accurate metrics and forecasts, and getting a better understanding of your company’s overall spending. While not a GAAP-metric, it’s widely adopted and understood (examples here , here and here ). This is a v2.0 Don’t forget the payroll’s subaccounts).
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ChurnZero
DECEMBER 9, 2022
More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. It can be hard to convince PE firms to invest in the customer. How did you get your PE colleagues to invest in the customer experience? We hire a third-party firm. Find the hardest problems to solve and you will succeed.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 3, 2020
As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader. When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time? What does one look for in their first sales hire?
Point Nine Land
APRIL 9, 2021
Having invested in 9 B2B marketplaces and gathered data from 20+ different investors, here are our findings on what it takes to raise money in 2021 for B2B marketplaces. A technical co-founder or CTO is always a great-to-have at this stage and becomes a must-have as the business scales beyond seed. Economics and Acquisition ??
SaaStr
JANUARY 10, 2020
Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. What were the core mistakes that he made with RJ Metrics? How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Loving our podcast content?
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
They’ve invested in all of these other businesses. Immediately told them to hire 50 reps in a different city, in a different city, and they did. The CEO was deferential because that was 10 times what he’d ever raised before, and did all of it. We might’ve touched on this one too on the hiring and the people.
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