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SaaStr
JULY 10, 2021
Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level. And for good reason.
Sales Hacker
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Before that, he was the first non-founder seller at three startups, turning early traction into a repeatable sales motion. If you missed GTM 134, check it out here: Build your AI Outbound Machine with ChatGPT | Jordan Crawford Highlights: 05:03 When to hire your first sales reps. 31:55 Hiring for grit, curiosity & determination.
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OpenView Labs
JULY 2, 2020
The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. Patrick Campbell deconstructs and walks through the elements of a pricing strategy that enables startups to more effectively acquire customers. There are Only 3 Pricing Strategies for Your Startup. As a startup, are you managing for revenue, market share or profitability?
SaaStr
APRIL 16, 2019
When we benchmarked ourself, when we started this company, we didn’t say we wanted to be the biggest company in Raleigh. We ended up signing that contract in the uber back to the airport on the way home. It was our largest contract to date, kind of helps the other quarter. The world’s your market, right?
Baremetrics
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0 This is a good sanity check to see if you are spending enough in your tech in your forecasts and even enables you to benchmark yourself against other SaaS companies. Use area charts for more detail. Finally, add the software account.
Sales Hacker
MAY 5, 2021
As Director of RevOps, he scaled his team at Sendoso by hiring smart generalists to lead their own teams of MOps, SOps, CSOps. Ask him about his thoughts on what companies are looking for in a RevOps role or where companies go wrong trying to hire/ build their RevOps function.). Alex Miller , Director of RevOps at Sendoso.
SaaStr
JUNE 1, 2025
China Is Playing a Different Game Entirely The Models Youve Barely Heard Of: DeepSeek R1: 93% performance of OpenAI’s o3-mini at fraction of training cost Alibaba Qwen 2.5-Max: Max: Outperforms both DeepSeek and ChatGPT on key benchmarks Baidu Ernie 4.5: DeepSeek R1 scores 93% vs. OpenAI o3-mini’s 95% on math benchmarks.
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