SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Well, in the past several years, there’s been a tremendous number of companies that have built specifically for developers and use this as a way to get into these new markets, to displace incumbents and disrupt the competition. You have the opportunity to upsell new features and capabilities to them. The contract size grows.

Underperforming Technical Team 193

Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development Part-Time VPE 193

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

A Couple SaaS Generations Ago… Traditional software companies managed sales, product development, finance and HR in siloed organizations by function. In the early SaaS days, management structure was essentially the same. The SaaS operating model requires execution across functional activities.

Part-Time CTO 69

Part-Time CTO CTO CTO Hire Management 69

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. We hire a third-party firm. That would just be crazy.

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Customer Success VP of Engineering CTO Hire 52

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. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom.

Scale 178

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 178

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. So if you’re a US-based startup, you might be able to shoot slightly higher ;) Unlike SaaS companies which have been around for years, B2B marketplaces are a relatively new category and not many investors have invested in them yet.

Marketplace as a Service 59

Marketplace as a Service Payments B2B SaaS Payments 59

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. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Bob made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found Crossbeam. * How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships?

Sales Hiring 133

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 133

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The question is not whether a CSM is a valuable asset to a SaaS business, but rather, how valuable are they? How many CSMs should you hire? This acquisition reinforces Sprinklr’s mission to define and lead the customer experience management industry with the world’s first Unified Front Office. What is their ROI? Weekend Wisdom.

Scale 43

Scale CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO 43

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

Part-Time VPE 239

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 239

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Software as a service or SaaS has been growing as a leading software distribution model. The world of SaaS has simplified software creation and distribution making access easier than before. Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software. Aaron Levie.

VP of Engineering 10

VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Venture Capital 10

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 163

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 163

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

New CTO 148

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 148

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

We’ll also hear Andrew Chen, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talking about the changing landscape of customer acquisition. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. And it was very successful. We have a lot of people going to slack.com, and it’s very simple to start a team.

Outsourcing Services 215

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. Figma made the product SaaS-based. That is a natural hurdle for PLG motion.

Startup 52

Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52

OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

Pricing 135

Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract.

Scale 107

Scale CTO Hire Scaling CTO Coach 107

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And at that same time I met two Stanford computer science students. They were building time and expense software.

Sales Recruiting 176

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 176

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.

Outsourcing Services 107

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Technical Review 107

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

Also, part of that is being intentional about who you want to be as a company. I think this is one of the great things about being in SaaS and all of you at our SaaS conference is that you can address the entire world. We ended up signing that contract in the uber back to the airport on the way home. This was a problem.

CTO Hire 157

CTO Hire Travel Underperforming Technical Team CTO Coach 157

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

RevOps isn’t new—some form of revenue operations has been around for a very long time, it simply lacked a title. RevOps is one of the fastest growing job titles in the SaaS world. When Co-founder and CTO of Chargify , Michael Klett isn’t brewing his own beer, he’s crafting billing experiences. Michael Klett.

CTO Hire 98

CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO CTO 98

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. How do you know when is the right time to refresh?

Technical Advisors 162

Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 162

ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

Not only does your sales team need to bring new customers through the door, but they also need to ensure that what they’re selling matches up exactly with those customers’ expectations. Acquiring customers is just the first step for subscription and SaaS companies. Contract length. B2C contract length. Customer knowledge.

B2C 52

B2C Subscription Payment Features Payments 52

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Most recently he was the CRO of a SaaS company that grew from 35 million when he joined to 120 million. And he helped lead that company through an IPO all before he started working on RepVue full time. Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well. Are they hiring? That goes to the hiring manager.

Marketplace as a Service 95

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 95

Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The challenge in each case is the same—the company is hiring you at a lower level of commitment than a full-time hire, usually with the expectation that they will see some ROI relatively quickly. Full-time Head of Marketing I’ve been hired to lead marketing teams at four companies in a full-time capacity now.

Sales Hiring 50

Sales Hiring CTO Coach CTO Hire Underperforming Technical Team 50

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. How do you have time to have your hands in all this different stuff? HubSpot has not done a lot of acquisitions in the past. We can switch off The Hustle acquisition.

Payment Methods 140

Payment Methods Software Review Technical Review Payment Solutions 140

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. How do you have time to have your hands in all this different stuff? HubSpot has not done a lot of acquisitions in the past. We can switch off The Hustle acquisition.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Software Review Technical Review Payment Solutions 40