SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time? What does one look for in their first sales hire? How does this change when selling to SMBs vs enterprise? * Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Sam. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So up to 100-150K and SMB, we’re at 2K. And actually when we started, I see one face in the room that I recognize, Kurt Freytag, was one of our big customers at the time when I joined. So you were the first sales hire. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. So over time, don’t hire resumes necessarily.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. We hire a third-party firm. That third-party firm does what they call IDIs, or in-depth interviews, to get a sense of the customer experience. We had to say: what does SMB want? What does the sub-100 (emerging) want?

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

How can founders know when is the right time to make the move from SMB to enterprise? Because one message isn’t necessarily always transferable when considering kind of SMB to enterprise. ” How do you know when’s the right time to think about moving from an SMB and mid-market to enterprise?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

You can watch the full session , and if you missed the podcast with the first half of the interview, you’ll find that here. Immediately told them to hire 50 reps in a different city, in a different city, and they did. The CEO was deferential because that was 10 times what he’d ever raised before, and did all of it.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. We’ve got an interview with Angus Davis. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Angus Davis. We were part of the office of the CTO. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Tell Me about Tellme & Upserve [10:30].

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

From contract signature to launch. Touching it, playing with it in a way a CIO or CTO might not before? We are still heavily oriented to SMB and to entrepreneurs. You say that Shopify is an SMB customer when I see 29%. I think Slack the majority of their revenue is enterprise even though their roots is SMB.

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