SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m He asked which to hire first. If you have a few nickels in the bank, and you somehow find a great VP a half stage or even full stage early, just hire her. Hiring is so hard as it is. And set you up for a ton more success, earlier. Make the hire now.

Part-Time VPE 363

Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scale 363

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. Get on a jet, at least twice a quarter.

Part-Time VPE 258

Part-Time VPE Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 258

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

However, given her CS background, Gabby never envisioned herself becoming a CEO, as she explained during her keynote session, “ The new ‘C’ in CEO ” at ChurnZero’s Customer Success Leadership Summit, BIG RYG. I put all that together, and that’s the customer value. We hire a third-party firm.

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Customer Success VP of Engineering CTO Hire 52

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support. How can founders know when is the right time to make the move from SMB to enterprise? Where does Erica often see founders make mistakes with this scaling?

Scale 161

Scale Enterprise Scaling Sales Hiring 161

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. You will fail if you: 1) try to build a suite of products out of the gate, 2) focus solely on SMBs, or 3) have an MBA. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

Part-Time VPE 212

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 212

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

Startups come in all shapes and sizes on various stages of a timeline, yet it’s not surprising how many have the same questions and concerns about how to scale from x to y to z, the right time to hire and fire, and how to keep a team motivated during hard times. His answers didn’t disappoint.

CTO Hire 173

CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 173

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

So I’m Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight and you probably have heard of Gainsight in the world of customer success and really excited to have two different voices in the world of how companies think about their customers. I mean, maybe you do, but I don’t know anyone right now with extra money, time, or people, right?

Payment Methods 190

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 190