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Blog Posts Compensation Early Human ResourcesI was curious the other day how many of the recent Cloud and SaaS IPOs had founders that were equal co-founders from an equity perspective. That was how I was brought up (the first start-up job I had, the founders were equal shareholders). MORE
What are 5 common SaaS sales compensation models? The reason is that commission-only position doesn’t guarantee a fixed financial compensation at the end of each month. Pros: With this way of compensating, you reward high-performing sales reps when they show they can do more for you! MORE
It takes a lot more than a generous compensation package to get top candidates to accept your offer. Provide a competitive compensation plan. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter how great your culture is if you can’t offer sales professionals a competitive compensation plan. MORE
What are 5 common SaaS sales compensation models? The reason is that commission-only position doesn’t guarantee a fixed financial compensation at the end of each month. Pros: With this way of compensating, you reward high-performing sales reps when they show they can do more for you! MORE
The last part I want to do is on compensation. Blog Posts Company Culture Compensation Customer Success Featured Videos Growth Hiring Leadership Marketing Marketing Strategy Metrics SaaStr Events Sales Scale Videos saastr annual MORE
Company Culture Compensation Customer Success Diversity & Inclusion Hiring Leadership PodcastsLeyla Seka is the executive vice president of the Salesforce Mobile platform experience. MORE
Another way is to look at the cash based cost of the stock based compensation. The chart above shows the average stock-based compensation (SBC) per employee by years since founding across the basket of publicly traded SaaS companies. In summary, each year the typical public SaaS company spends about $10-20k in stock based compensation per employee. Above, I’ve plotted the median spend on stock-based compensation over the first ten years of each company’s life. MORE
Compensation structures are one of the most interesting questions facing customer success organizations in software startups. How should customer success leaders structure their team’s compensation in order to align the objectives of individual customer success managers with those of the larger business? Like sales compensation plans , customer success compensation plans should evolve to serve the business’s needs. MORE
Tom Tunguz: The second reason that we’re starting to see this kind of demarcation between CSM and AE, particularly for the upsell has to do with compensation. At the beginning, maybe two or three years ago, there were lots of different ways of compensating a CSM. MORE
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Almost always, compensation distributions are fixed the moment you sign a term sheet to be acquired (and really, a bit before that). The post When offering equity compensation, what should founders consider to make sure employees benefit fairly from a liquidity event? MORE
Many times startup teams ask how to compensate a sales team for renewals and upsells. How should SaaS startups compensate their sales teams for upsells and expansions? What’s the best way to compensate sales teams? Developing the sales motions, customer success sophistication and compensation structures to enable this type of growth is an essential skill of enduring SaaS businesses MORE
Since 2008, there has been a secular trend to increase cash compensation and decrease equity to startup management teams. In the past 5 years, VPEs have benefitted from a 10 to 16% increase in their cash compensation, but have seen their equity grants fall by 17-19%. Above, I’ve charted the cash compensation trends, (salary+bonus), for the different roles and different locations. MORE
Trujay partners will increase overall customer satisfaction and revenues, as the program offers solutions that carry Trujay’s impressive NPS rating (82), and compensates for sales of these needed services. Trujay Group is happy to announce the launch of our new Partner Program. MORE
Owning quota does not mean a CSM cannot do right by the customer and owning revenue does not mean that compensation must consist of revenue quota for individuals. While it is true that compensation plans do motivate behaviors, when the behaviors are the right ones, is owning revenue wrong? MORE
Owning quota does not mean a CSM cannot do right by the customer and owning revenue does not mean that compensation must consist of revenue quota for individuals. While it is true that compensation plans do motivate behaviors, when the behaviors are the right ones, is owning revenue wrong? MORE
It’s the most provocative idea about employee compensation I’ve found. Today, it’s common for startups and companies of all sizes to refer to compensation surveys that span the 10th percentile to the 90th percentile in compensation for roles, and use these benchmarks provide offers to new hires, inform promotion salary increases and new option grants, and underpin retention packages. In his book describing Google’s People Operations called Work Rules! MORE
The ultimate goal of any compensation plan is to ensure account executive success at each stage. Your startup is just getting off the ground. You might have a few account executives and a sales leader in place; maybe some revenue and a handful of customers. The sales team costs real money, and the question before the company is: how do you know what quota plan to assign to the account executives? I’ve seen four stages in early stage software companies. MORE
There’s an interesting phenomemon occurring in founder compensation for post-Series A companies: founding CEOs are swapping cash for larger equity stakes in their companies. Each year, Redpoint portfolio companies participate in a compensation survey along with the portfolio companies of about 50 other firms, totaling about 800 startups. MORE
As many of you may know, Trish Bertuzzi and the folks over at the Bridge Group publish a lot of great stuff on Inside Sales strategy and operations, including inside sales compensation benchmarks, lead development rep best practices, outbound selling strategies, and on an on. MORE
Company Culture Compensation Marketing Podcasts SalesStephen Burton is VP of Smarketing at Harness, the industry’s first continuous delivery as a service platform. To date, Harness has raised $20m in funding from the wonderful Matt Murphy @ Menlo Ventures and BIG Labs. MORE
So today — competition is why tech compensation is always. Historically, there has been 1 good solid reason to pay top employees at software companies a lot: leverage. MORE
Blog Posts CompensationBecause it takes so, so long to make money from it. At least from very early-stage investing. So while not a young person’s game per se, it really helps to start early. It doesn’t take that long in venture to make a decent salary. MORE
Blog Posts Company Culture Compensation Featured Videos Hiring Human Resources International Expansion Leadership Marketing Resource Type Role / Function SaaStr Events Topics Videos saastr annual MORE
If we do stick with the kind of compensation plan though, so to speak, I do get asked by, again, a lot of founders about it. Compensation Hiring Leadership Podcasts SalesWelcome to Episode 210! MORE
With increasing focus on grit and many claims of meritocracies in organizations across the country, why does variable pay compensation even exist? On top of that, why are sales people some of the few employees subject to variable compensation structures? MORE
How do sales team compensate their account executives and their SDRs/BDRs? Go to market questions are some of the most common questions startups discuss in board meetings. This is especially true around the end of year because many companies develop their financial plans. To help startups understand how their go to market teams compare to peers, Redpoint has constructed a survey. You can find the survey here. MORE
An effective outbound machine – from your outreach, to your meetings, follow ups, even compensation plans – is a holistic process. Too often we think of outbound sales as a collection of piecemeal artifacts, typically with email templates occupying the most important position. MORE
Still, they don’t always nail down the details when it comes to the things that might entice a prospective salesperson — like a well-rounded sales compensation plan , for example. Think about the compensation structure of various sales roles. How can our compensation plan be gamed? MORE
In the early years, Hubspot prioritized growth and consequently compensated their sales teams exclusively on new bookings. But after observing some of the initial churn rates of particular customer segments, the company re-emphasized the importance of closing the right customers, and added a churn component to the compensation structure of the sales teams, to ensure that the sales teams were pursuing the right kinds of customers. MORE
Tom Tunguz: The second reason that we’re starting to see this kind of demarcation between CSM and AE, particularly for the upsell has to do with compensation. At the beginning, maybe two or three years ago, there were lots of different ways of compensating a CSM. Compensation Early Podcasts SaaS Product Pricing SalesWelcome to Episode 213! MORE
A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. It needs to provide fair compensation to employees in customer-facing roles. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Plan Compensation for Onboarding and Training. Example Compensation Plans. MORE
Owning quota does not mean a CSM cannot do right by the customer and owning revenue does not mean that compensation must consist of revenue quota for individuals. While it is true that compensation plans do motivate behaviors, when the behaviors are the right ones, is owning revenue wrong? MORE
Career Growth & Advice Compensation Hiring Marketing Podcasts SaaS Product Pricing Sales allie janoch dannie herzberg founder's favorites Kevin egan mapistry Slack286: Allie Janoch is the Founder & CEO @ Mapistry, the startup that makes environmental compliance simple. MORE
Many founders like to tie compensation to results and like bonuses for overachievers. Blog Posts Compensation Q&AQ: When should you raise the salary of your employees as a startup? A few thoughts to at least think about: Try to pay “market” to all your employees as soon as you can. MORE
Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) refers to one of the most popular and common forms of businesses in the industry today. It’s a big business that many Americans and even other countries all over the world are involved. Why is it so popular? MORE
Is compensation too low? Compensate all sales positions in the same way. Rework your compensation structure. All sales positions are not created equal — nor should they be compensated the same way. Like most things in life, hiring sales talent is a matter of timing. MORE
Developing a compensation philosophy—and doing so sooner rather than later—is one key way to get compensation right. But what exactly is a compensation philosophy, and how do you go about developing one for your startup? . What is a compensation philosophy? . MORE
How should founders think about sales rep compensation? Because I always struggle slightly when they’re rewarded or compensated on MQL or even, sales accepted leads, I always think they should be tied directly to a number associated to revenue. MORE
Blog Posts CompensationQ: How much equity should a CEO get in a startup? There’s no magical answer, but for venture-backed start-ups, for years VCs have aligned on around 6%-8% equity for a non-founder / outside CEO. As you approach IPO and very late stage, that often goes down. MORE
For example, as Mark Roberge, CRO of Hubspot, wrote in The Sales Acceleration Formula , Hubspot adopted three different sales compensation plans throughout its early evolution which embody the three key ingredients of a sales compensation plan. Hubspot’s journey highlights the three key components of a sales compensation plan: commission ratio, acceleration and payment schedule. Payout timing is the third component of the sales compensation. MORE
Compensation Related Topics TechStars
AUGUST 19, 2019
Developing a compensation philosophy—and doing so sooner rather than later—is one key way to get compensation right. But what exactly is a compensation philosophy, and how do you go about developing one for your startup? . What is a compensation philosophy? .
SaaStr
JULY 22, 2019
Almost always, compensation distributions are fixed the moment you sign a term sheet to be acquired (and really, a bit before that). The post When offering equity compensation, what should founders consider to make sure employees benefit fairly from a liquidity event?
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SaaStr
JULY 2, 2019
The post What is an equitable way to compensate someone who brings an investor to your start up company? If someone wants to be paid to help you fundraise, pass. VCs will smell it and it will be a negative.
Sales Hacker
MAY 9, 2019
A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. It needs to provide fair compensation to employees in customer-facing roles. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Plan Compensation for Onboarding and Training. Example Compensation Plans.
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 4, 2016
It’s the most provocative idea about employee compensation I’ve found. Today, it’s common for startups and companies of all sizes to refer to compensation surveys that span the 10th percentile to the 90th percentile in compensation for roles, and use these benchmarks provide offers to new hires, inform promotion salary increases and new option grants, and underpin retention packages. In his book describing Google’s People Operations called Work Rules!
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 10, 2015
Compensation structures are one of the most interesting questions facing customer success organizations in software startups. How should customer success leaders structure their team’s compensation in order to align the objectives of individual customer success managers with those of the larger business? Like sales compensation plans , customer success compensation plans should evolve to serve the business’s needs.
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Tom Tunguz
APRIL 28, 2014
Since 2008, there has been a secular trend to increase cash compensation and decrease equity to startup management teams. In the past 5 years, VPEs have benefitted from a 10 to 16% increase in their cash compensation, but have seen their equity grants fall by 17-19%. Above, I’ve charted the cash compensation trends, (salary+bonus), for the different roles and different locations.
Tom Tunguz
MAY 12, 2015
In the early years, Hubspot prioritized growth and consequently compensated their sales teams exclusively on new bookings. But after observing some of the initial churn rates of particular customer segments, the company re-emphasized the importance of closing the right customers, and added a churn component to the compensation structure of the sales teams, to ensure that the sales teams were pursuing the right kinds of customers.
Tom Tunguz
FEBRUARY 1, 2015
Another way is to look at the cash based cost of the stock based compensation. The chart above shows the average stock-based compensation (SBC) per employee by years since founding across the basket of publicly traded SaaS companies. In summary, each year the typical public SaaS company spends about $10-20k in stock based compensation per employee. Above, I’ve plotted the median spend on stock-based compensation over the first ten years of each company’s life.
Tom Tunguz
MARCH 29, 2015
For example, as Mark Roberge, CRO of Hubspot, wrote in The Sales Acceleration Formula , Hubspot adopted three different sales compensation plans throughout its early evolution which embody the three key ingredients of a sales compensation plan. Hubspot’s journey highlights the three key components of a sales compensation plan: commission ratio, acceleration and payment schedule. Payout timing is the third component of the sales compensation.
Sales Hacker
DECEMBER 12, 2017
With increasing focus on grit and many claims of meritocracies in organizations across the country, why does variable pay compensation even exist? On top of that, why are sales people some of the few employees subject to variable compensation structures?
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SaaStr
MAY 28, 2020
Blog Posts CompensationQ: How much equity should a CEO get in a startup? There’s no magical answer, but for venture-backed start-ups, for years VCs have aligned on around 6%-8% equity for a non-founder / outside CEO. As you approach IPO and very late stage, that often goes down.
SaaStr
JUNE 12, 2020
Many founders like to tie compensation to results and like bonuses for overachievers. Blog Posts Compensation Q&AQ: When should you raise the salary of your employees as a startup? A few thoughts to at least think about: Try to pay “market” to all your employees as soon as you can.
Tom Tunguz
NOVEMBER 27, 2016
Many times startup teams ask how to compensate a sales team for renewals and upsells. How should SaaS startups compensate their sales teams for upsells and expansions? What’s the best way to compensate sales teams? Developing the sales motions, customer success sophistication and compensation structures to enable this type of growth is an essential skill of enduring SaaS businesses
SaaStr
APRIL 4, 2020
Blog Posts CompensationBecause it takes so, so long to make money from it. At least from very early-stage investing. So while not a young person’s game per se, it really helps to start early. It doesn’t take that long in venture to make a decent salary.
SaaS Metrics
MAY 28, 2019
Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) refers to one of the most popular and common forms of businesses in the industry today. It’s a big business that many Americans and even other countries all over the world are involved. Why is it so popular?
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Blog Posts Compensation Early Human ResourcesI was curious the other day how many of the recent Cloud and SaaS IPOs had founders that were equal co-founders from an equity perspective. That was how I was brought up (the first start-up job I had, the founders were equal shareholders).
Tom Tunguz
OCTOBER 28, 2013
There’s an interesting phenomemon occurring in founder compensation for post-Series A companies: founding CEOs are swapping cash for larger equity stakes in their companies. Each year, Redpoint portfolio companies participate in a compensation survey along with the portfolio companies of about 50 other firms, totaling about 800 startups.
SaaStr
MARCH 12, 2019
The last part I want to do is on compensation. Blog Posts Company Culture Compensation Customer Success Featured Videos Growth Hiring Leadership Marketing Marketing Strategy Metrics SaaStr Events Sales Scale Videos saastr annual
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
How should founders think about sales rep compensation? Because I always struggle slightly when they’re rewarded or compensated on MQL or even, sales accepted leads, I always think they should be tied directly to a number associated to revenue.
SaaStr
APRIL 16, 2019
Blog Posts Company Culture Compensation Featured Videos Hiring Human Resources International Expansion Leadership Marketing Resource Type Role / Function SaaStr Events Topics Videos saastr annual
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
Career Growth & Advice Compensation Hiring Marketing Podcasts SaaS Product Pricing Sales allie janoch dannie herzberg founder's favorites Kevin egan mapistry Slack286: Allie Janoch is the Founder & CEO @ Mapistry, the startup that makes environmental compliance simple.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
If we do stick with the kind of compensation plan though, so to speak, I do get asked by, again, a lot of founders about it. Compensation Hiring Leadership Podcasts SalesWelcome to Episode 210!
SaaStr
MARCH 27, 2019
Company Culture Compensation Customer Success Diversity & Inclusion Hiring Leadership PodcastsLeyla Seka is the executive vice president of the Salesforce Mobile platform experience.
SaaStr
MARCH 1, 2019
Tom Tunguz: The second reason that we’re starting to see this kind of demarcation between CSM and AE, particularly for the upsell has to do with compensation. At the beginning, maybe two or three years ago, there were lots of different ways of compensating a CSM. Compensation Early Podcasts SaaS Product Pricing SalesWelcome to Episode 213!
SaaStr
APRIL 17, 2019
Company Culture Compensation Marketing Podcasts SalesStephen Burton is VP of Smarketing at Harness, the industry’s first continuous delivery as a service platform. To date, Harness has raised $20m in funding from the wonderful Matt Murphy @ Menlo Ventures and BIG Labs.
SaaStr
JANUARY 3, 2020
Tom Tunguz: The second reason that we’re starting to see this kind of demarcation between CSM and AE, particularly for the upsell has to do with compensation. At the beginning, maybe two or three years ago, there were lots of different ways of compensating a CSM.
Predictable Revenue
JANUARY 9, 2020
An effective outbound machine – from your outreach, to your meetings, follow ups, even compensation plans – is a holistic process. Too often we think of outbound sales as a collection of piecemeal artifacts, typically with email templates occupying the most important position.
Sales Hacker
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Still, they don’t always nail down the details when it comes to the things that might entice a prospective salesperson — like a well-rounded sales compensation plan , for example. Think about the compensation structure of various sales roles. How can our compensation plan be gamed?
Incredo
OCTOBER 17, 2019
What are 5 common SaaS sales compensation models? The reason is that commission-only position doesn’t guarantee a fixed financial compensation at the end of each month. Pros: With this way of compensating, you reward high-performing sales reps when they show they can do more for you!
Incredo
OCTOBER 17, 2019
What are 5 common SaaS sales compensation models? The reason is that commission-only position doesn’t guarantee a fixed financial compensation at the end of each month. Pros: With this way of compensating, you reward high-performing sales reps when they show they can do more for you!
Chaotic Flow
NOVEMBER 11, 2014
As many of you may know, Trish Bertuzzi and the folks over at the Bridge Group publish a lot of great stuff on Inside Sales strategy and operations, including inside sales compensation benchmarks, lead development rep best practices, outbound selling strategies, and on an on.
Trujay
APRIL 3, 2018
Trujay partners will increase overall customer satisfaction and revenues, as the program offers solutions that carry Trujay’s impressive NPS rating (82), and compensates for sales of these needed services. Trujay Group is happy to announce the launch of our new Partner Program.
OpenView Labs
MAY 22, 2019
Owning quota does not mean a CSM cannot do right by the customer and owning revenue does not mean that compensation must consist of revenue quota for individuals. While it is true that compensation plans do motivate behaviors, when the behaviors are the right ones, is owning revenue wrong?
OpenView Labs
MAY 22, 2019
Owning quota does not mean a CSM cannot do right by the customer and owning revenue does not mean that compensation must consist of revenue quota for individuals. While it is true that compensation plans do motivate behaviors, when the behaviors are the right ones, is owning revenue wrong?
Sales Hacker
MARCH 12, 2020
Is compensation too low? Compensate all sales positions in the same way. Rework your compensation structure. All sales positions are not created equal — nor should they be compensated the same way. Like most things in life, hiring sales talent is a matter of timing.
Close.io
OCTOBER 24, 2019
It takes a lot more than a generous compensation package to get top candidates to accept your offer. Provide a competitive compensation plan. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter how great your culture is if you can’t offer sales professionals a competitive compensation plan.
OpenView Labs
MAY 22, 2019
Owning quota does not mean a CSM cannot do right by the customer and owning revenue does not mean that compensation must consist of revenue quota for individuals. While it is true that compensation plans do motivate behaviors, when the behaviors are the right ones, is owning revenue wrong?
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
So today — competition is why tech compensation is always. Historically, there has been 1 good solid reason to pay top employees at software companies a lot: leverage.
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 13, 2020
How do sales team compensate their account executives and their SDRs/BDRs? Go to market questions are some of the most common questions startups discuss in board meetings. This is especially true around the end of year because many companies develop their financial plans. To help startups understand how their go to market teams compare to peers, Redpoint has constructed a survey. You can find the survey here.
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