SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. SaaS products get too complex to hack a product roadmap too long. Or churn will increase, NPS will stagnate and decline, and upsell and revenue retention will be a fraction of what it could be. She can be your CTO forever.

Scale 265

Scale Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Fractional VPE 265

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. Make the hire now. ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m More here: [link].

Part-Time VPE 363

Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scale 363

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2020

You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. SaaS products get too complex to hack a product roadmap too long. Or churn will increase, NPS will stagnate and decline, and upsell and revenue retention will be a fraction of what it could be. She can be your CTO forever.

Part-Time VPE 248

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Fractional VPE Sales Recruiting 248

SaaStr

AUGUST 18, 2019

Even if you don’t like sales, or big companies, or whatever. Not hiring a good enough CTO. If you never thought you’d sell to sales reps, and even sort of hate sales, but that’s your core customer — embrace it. Expecting magic growth hacking solutions. Growth hacking is real.

Growth Hacking 121

Growth Hacking CTO Hire Startup Sales Hiring 121

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Alexander Theuma is the founder of SaaStock – a one-stop source for B2B SaaS companies to supercharge their growth. He also founded SaaScribe to help founders, customer success teams , sales executives, marketing professionals, and growth hackers. He writes on sales strategies, sales success, and product launches.

VP of Engineering 10

VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Venture Capital 10

Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. In short, we observe that Head, Director & VP of Growth titles are becoming more abundant, as are consultants around growth hacking but the "growth hacker" title is fading away.

SaaS Payments 77

SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Engineering Payment Solutions 77