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SaaStr
MAY 27, 2024
Ok the title here is a bit dramatic, but certainly seed investing is in an odd place in 2024. Public valuations are still at a fraction of their 2021 peaks, but seed rounds are more expensive than ever. The best investments grow from $1 million to $10 million in 5 quarters or less. His best deals by cash are: Sales Loft : $2.5
SaaStr
MARCH 7, 2021
No one spends enough time recruiting as it is, after $1m ARR or so. Yes, you can manage the sales team yourself. These are all full-time jobs by $1m ARR. Fixing it yourself becomes the biggest time sink and excuse for not hiring there is. And even worse, you often sort of give up trying to make the hire.
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SaaStr
AUGUST 25, 2023
You have to understand how venture capital works. No one has time to have coffee with all of those folks. 2 “Give the VP of Sales more time.” You can’t always expect a great VP of Sales to double sales in 30-60-90 days. But you have to see progress in one sales cycle. It never works, folks!
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
They were aware of it, but startups that I work with closely or invested in, if they got all the way to 25 million with 75% NRR, I would tell them to quit today. They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product.
SaaStr
JANUARY 10, 2020
Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Why is this? What are the drivers of its death?
SaaStr
OCTOBER 25, 2023
For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. Lead generation tools do change, but the basic motions of sales and marketing haven’t changed much.
Kellblog
JANUARY 29, 2020
Why are you and your team the best people to invest in? So if you’re doing a sales-related category it’s not hard to companies full of ex-Siebel and ex-Salesforce people. Some startups have relatively complete teams while others have only a CEO and CTO and a few functional directors. swagger Drivers vs. passengers.
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