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A Checklist: 10 Signs You Shouldn’t Hire a Sales Rep

SaaStr

So you’re hiring your first few sales reps in the early days? Before you have a great VP of Sales? So you need a very certain type of sales rep. Not during founder-led sales. The #1 trick to making sure your first sales reps work out? But I’ve just never seen early sales rep execl that do this.

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Scytale’s Multi-Framework Cross-Mapping: Your Shortcut to a Complete Compliance Program

Scytale

In the world of compliance, where the landscape is as diverse as it is complex, companies often find themselves facing not just one, but multiple frameworks. Comprehensive Visibility: For companies juggling compliance with multiple frameworks, it can feel very overwhelming, confusing and even disorganized.

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Security Compliance for SaaS: Cutting Costs and Boosting Sales with Automation

Scytale

Many businesses prioritize compliance automation when formulating their strategic plans, and it’s crucial to understand why. This strategy leverages technology to simplify the compliance processes, encompassing security and data requirements needed. Managing compliance manually can be a burdensome and never-ending task.

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The CCPA Compliance Checklist: Ensuring Data Protection and Privacy

Scytale

As a business leader, ensuring your company’s compliance with privacy laws like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is critical. The CCPA sets strict standards for data compliance , collection, storage, and sharing, to protect consumers’ personal information. Implementing CCPA compliance reduces this risk.

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95% of VPs of Sales Won’t Thrive at Your Startup

SaaStr

So we’ve talked so much over the years on SaaStr on how to hire a great VP of Sales, the difference they’ll make, and how the level-up comes quickly. And VPs of Sales do, too. Don’t hire a VP of Sales that isn’t truly comfortable selling to your buyer persona, especially in B2D and fintech. Be careful.

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The Intersection of AI and Security: What’s New at Secureframe with CEO Shrav Mehta

SaaStr

In the latest episode of our What’s New series, Founder and CEO at Secureframe, Shrav Mehta, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Secureframe, a rising SOC-2 and compliance software company breaking out in SaaS. So the time to implementation and compliance is much quicker now than it used to be.

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Some Classic Sales Objections That Are Hard to Overcome. And Some You Can Get Over If You Put In The Work.

SaaStr

A lot of customers really do need SOC-2, HIPAA and other compliances. Here’s the fundamental flaw in SaaS sales, that as founders and executives you need to try to address: SaaS sales is seen as way, way too transactional. SaaS sales reps see everything as a “deal” It’s not to customers.

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