Branding CTO Hire SMB 
FastSpring
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
If you’re running a smaller digital business, you may find it challenging to hire great talent. Larger technology companies can pay more, offer more benefits, and provide a more marketable brand on a candidate’s resume. So how are smaller companies supposed to compete with large brands for the best talent?
SaaStr
JANUARY 16, 2023
Hiring a reliable team is an all-encompassing issue where startups dive in head-first but fail to optimize it for success. . Hiring an expert produces 1000x better results than someone with interests elsewhere. . “A Hiring in a streamlined manner with a rigorous selection process initially builds momentum for long-term goals.
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SaaStr
MARCH 7, 2021
These are all full-time jobs by $1m ARR. Fixing it yourself becomes the biggest time sink and excuse for not hiring there is. You end up spending all your time backfilling roles you should have hired. And even worse, you often sort of give up trying to make the hire. Field vs. mid-market vs SMB early.
SaaStr
JUNE 26, 2024
Deals are contracting, not because of layoffs, but because people are managing budgets so tightly. It Takes Time To Bounce Back Jason was the first investor in RevenueCat , a company that automates mobile subscriptions on your phone. Are brand-new companies that seem epic with no revenue really worth $1.5B It’s a rocket ship.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
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. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
So up to 100-150K and SMB, we’re at 2K. And actually when we started, I see one face in the room that I recognize, Kurt Freytag, was one of our big customers at the time when I joined. So you were the first sales hire. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. So over time, don’t hire resumes necessarily.
ChurnZero
DECEMBER 9, 2022
More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. We hire a third-party firm. Seventy-six percent of the 3,500 brands are below a hundred units. We had to say: what does SMB want? Gabby: We probably track 50 to 60 KPIs, so I’m not going to multiply that times four.
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