Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 2, 2019

If you must choose a long term headquarters for your startup, call an executive recruiter who focuses in that city. VP Engineering, VP Product, VP Sales, VP Customer Success, VP Marketing, or VP Operations. After establishing product market fit, the startups grow their management team to scale.

Sales Recruiting 215

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Startup Scale 215

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. What does this mean for product design and product management? the night before it was to IPO).

Product Marketing 84

Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 84

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

Scale 131

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 131

Sales Hacker

MARCH 17, 2021

While every entrepreneur dreams of scaling their startup into a multi-million dollar company, many do not understand all that goes into that dream. Strict sales volume does go a long way in achieving long-term revenue growth, but processes and cross-department alignment are what allow sales volumes to scale in the first place.

Scale 93

Scale Revenue Startup Sales Recruiting 93

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Does your product-led growth strategy deliver on its promise to customers and prospects? . The exciting thing about prototypes is that large-scale experiments can be built through open-source projects , which companies like Netflix and Linkedin will do as a strategic way of recruiting top talent. . Milestone: Selecting a price.

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Marketing 82

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

PlanGrid builds beautiful, simple software for the construction industry. Then trying to maintain that as we scale is always the challenge. Josh : I made probably the first 50, 60 offers in the company personally, and that does not scale. I want to come be your VP of sales and, you’re going to meet me for the first time.

VP of Engineering 276

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 276

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? At what scale does that become impossible? In terms of replacement, what does Bob believe will be the emerging trends in SaaS Go To Market that will replace it? Why is this? What are the drivers of its death? Kind of solve the problem.

Sales Hiring 133

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 133