SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You’ll need to hire aggressively to get to the next level and continue that rapid growth. But what roles should you hire for, and what will your org chart look like at each stage? David considers product to be its own department that should also report directly to the CEO, instead of falling under the CTO. CTO (40 Employees).

CTO Hire 253

CTO Hire Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO 253

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2020

in ARR, get to Initial Traction , we then realize we have to scale. Hire not just 1-2 reps, but 10. That it’s time to bring in someone that knows. But I’ve found many great SaaS founders take longer, too long, to decide to hire the other VPs. My CTO and dev team is building all the features we need.

Sales Hiring 356

Sales Hiring CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 356

SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2023

On top of that, founders are full of excuses preventing them from scaling. You have to see: A couple of good hires brought in Improvement on some metrics A big deal or two hanging out there, brought in and closed Things taken off your plate. But after a couple million in ARR, you can afford any hire if they’re accretive.

Part-Time VPE 181

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Hiring CTO Hire 181

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. What is a SaaS business model? Average salary: $191,286/yr. Average salary: $156,062/yr.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich, Developer Success Manager Betsy Calender, and VP of Developer Experience Zeno Rocha share how to price your product for developers, how to market it to developers, how to how to support them as they scale and use the products. Doing Business with Developers. The contract size grows.

Underperforming Technical Team 185

Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development Part-Time VPE 185

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Here’s what SaaS businesses need to know about simplifying sales tax. Software as a Service is currently taxable in about one-third of US states, and that number is only growing as outdated state sales tax laws slowly catch up with the way we’re doing business today. . hiring in-house talent). Identify and mitigate risks.

Merchant Services 181

Merchant Services Scale Technical Review Sales Hiring 181

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As a SaaS business, Intercom is a data processor: our customers entrust us with their data, which we store and process on their behalf. As we scale, we’re working with larger mid-market and enterprise customers with more complex needs and specifications. Hiring and cultivating incredible talent on our Information Security team.

Data 118

Data compliance Technical Review CTO Hire 118

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Rich Archbold , Senior Director of Engineering, has been at the forefront of codifying and scaling this philosophy over the past few years. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

Outsourcing Services 192

Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Build, communicate, and execute a cohesive product strategy across feature, growth, scaling and innovation product work. Membership combines cohort-based programs, with a year-round experience to help you learn, execute, and scale your career and your company. Scaling Product Delivery. Advanced Growth Strategy.

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach CTO Hire New CTO Scale 52

TurnKey Labs

AUGUST 24, 2023

If you’re a tech business leader, be it a founder owner, CTO, or CIO, you’re likely no stranger to the concept of offshoring. Yet, the term ‘nearshore staff augmentation’ might not be as familiar.

CTO Hire 52

CTO Hire CTO Business Scaling 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

To date, they have raised over $73M from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst and Point Nine to name a few. What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time?

Scale 182

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 182

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. First, hire a management coach to work with you as the company grows. The best ways he found to learn leadership skills was to hire a management coach to meet him once per month, to talk through the issues facing him at Optimizely.

CTO Coach 101

CTO Coach Sales Hiring CTO Hire Startup 101

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Pricing is an incredibly important part of any SaaS product’s go-to-market strategy. In a market that requires companies to earn their customers’ business each and every day, it can literally make or break your entire business model. With twenty-five years in the software business, I’ve seen my share of pricing exercises.

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Technical Review 40

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So you were the first sales hire. Talk to me about the sales hires that you made back in the early days and talk to me about how it changed through the different stages. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. The very first few sales hire are I would say not your typical reps. Laura Bilazarian : Awesome.

Scale 144

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 144

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2022

Miguel Carranza, CTO at RevenueCat, shares ten learnings from firsthand experience in architecting an API & SDK that is currently on 5,000+ apps and has seen 3x growth Year-over-Year. . But at scale, people will use your API in crazy ways that you might not imagine, so some margin of the unexpected is unavoidable.

CTO Hire 220

CTO Hire New CTO CTO Scaling 220

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

But promotional paths are a-changing, according to a time-series by Spencer Stuart summarized in Harvard Business Review’s “ Finding the Right CEO.” I think it’s changing, and the Spencer Stuart data in Harvard Business Review show that it’s changing too. We hire a third-party firm.

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Customer Success VP of Engineering CTO Hire 52

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. It’s becoming the bare minimum.

Scale 211

Scale Software Review compliance Technical Review 211

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

At what scale does that become impossible? How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? What are the drivers of its death? How important is it to own the entire customer journey?

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 132

SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. The Gold: these are very rare and hard to achieve at the scale-up stage, so you’ll mostly encounter them with startups. The best part? CV templates by Canva.

Scale 103

Scale Sales Hiring CTO Hire Social Media 103

SaaStr

MAY 26, 2023

Dan Robinson, current Advisor and former CTO at Heap , shares five essential learnings from nearly a decade of building a SaaS business. Register for SaaStr Annual and join 12,500 Cloud and SaaS Founders, VCs, and Execs at SaaStr Annual for three full days of workshops, sessions, and networking — all to help you scale faster.

CTO Coach 182

CTO Coach CTO Hire CTO Leadership 182

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

Scale 173

Scale Enterprise Scaling Sales Hiring 173

SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. Who’s here on a CEO or more on a business hat SaaS? Who started their business more than three, four years ago? They wanted real-time results. The business environment and adoption. A lot as well.

Cloud 172

Cloud Scale Trends Machine Learning 172

SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? 300: When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. What must startups always remember when pitching CIOs? * What must startups remember about how CIOs think about price?

CTO Hire 133

CTO Hire compliance Scale Startup 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? On a global scale, on average, product marketers with strong leadership support earn almost $13k more a year than those without. What is their ROI? Here are a few teasers. And for some U.S.

Scale 43

Scale CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO 43

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. I got into engineering through my father.

Leadership 141

Leadership Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach 141

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

To add to this, B2B marketplaces tend to have various different business models (commission, SaaS, not monetizing in the beginning), which makes it very difficult to come up with one-size-fits-all metrics for each funding round. As a result, we could not collect as many data points as we do for our SaaS napkin. Team ???????????

Marketplace as a Service 59

Marketplace as a Service Payments B2B SaaS Payments 59

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 16, 2022

Most businesses must get this a lot- Are you implementing QBRs and EBRs regularly? Why do some experts consider QBRs to be a waste of time? The Quarterly Business Review is a quarterly business meeting where stakeholders meet to discuss KPIs and goals. QBRs aim to determine whether business goals are met or not.

Technical Review 10

Technical Review Systems Review Business CTO Hire 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 158

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 158

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. There are no Cloud magicians, and you can’t hire a PLG magician. Let’s jump right into the questions.

Scale 249

Scale Sales Hiring AI Sales Recruiting 249

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. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. 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 108

Scale CTO Hire Scaling CTO Coach 108

SaaStr

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Anyhow the one thing I learned, beyond getting help screening and hiring for these positions from domain experts, is to look for Flags. For signs the prospective hire just won’t work out, no matter how strong they might look on paper. Just pass here, nine times out of ten at least. At that point, VPEs need them to scale.

Sales Hiring 256

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Sales Recruiting 256

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Of course, not at scale.

Scale 130

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 130

Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2020

pre-seed, seed, seed-plus [1]) and one of the things I’ve noticed is that many founders cannot clearly, succinctly, and confidently answer some basic questions about their businesses. ” I’m admittedly fanatical about this, but I want to know what it says on the target buyer’s business card [3]. Completeness.

Startup 99

Startup Sales Hiring CTO Hire New CTO 99

SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

At the same time – there are only 1,000 Fortune1k companies, right? And hundreds of thousands of downmarket businesses that could get value out of ZoomInfo. We make sure that we can continue to maintain the new business sales motion while we’re doing that to see if we can get to a place where it’s additive.

New CTO 260

New CTO Scale Sales Hiring AWS 260

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

First it was Wistia , followed shortly thereafter by Buffer ; both buyouts a sort of declaration of independence that gave both companies back the ability to build their businesses on their own terms. They had built a highly profitable business that was generally adored by its customers. in debt to buy out their investors.

CTO Hire 65

CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) Our check sizes range from the low single-digit millions up to around $20M, depending on the stage of the company, market and the capital needs of the business. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

Management 228

Management CTO Hire New CTO AI 228