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.

Sales Hiring 97

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 97

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Say you sell a subscription-based software but you also send your customers a handy flash drive with a version of your software on it. hiring in-house talent). Leverage automation to support scaling. Monitoring these changes is more than a full-time job and can place significant pressure on growing companies to stay up to date.

Merchant Services 178

Merchant Services Scale Technical Review Sales Hiring 178

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. That got me fascinated by computing early on.

Leadership 141

Leadership Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach 141

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Rand Fishkin of Moz poured his heart and frustrations into his book Lost and Founder , then began building SparkToro taking a drastically different approach than he did in building Moz. Wistia is certainly not the first tech company to suffer from over-scaling, but their story is both unique and illuminating for a number of reasons.

CTO Hire 65

CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Sam Jacobs: Is it a subscription service? Is it recurring revenue, or is it delivered in a different way?

Subscription 106

Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 106

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. It got much better over time. A SaaStr Classic!!

Part-Time VPE 242

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 242

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Ben Murray is a Certified Public Accountant whose passion for SaaS metrics, financial performance, subscription economy, forecasting, and SaaS operations drove him to kick start blogging on the same. He has co-authored a book with his co-founder Dharmesh Shah on inbound marketing. Ben Murray. Byron Deeter. Casey Winters. Dharmesh Shah.

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VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Venture Capital 10