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. Less and you under-invest.
SaaStr
AUGUST 25, 2023
You have to understand how venture capital works. No one has time to have coffee with all of those folks. You have to see: A couple of good hires brought in Improvement on some metrics A big deal or two hanging out there, brought in and closed Things taken off your plate. Hiring someone too junior.
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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. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. VCs can only invest in outliers. I want to invest in her.”
SaaStr
JANUARY 10, 2020
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? Let’s hire an amazing VP of product who’s going to answer this question for us and kind of have the frameworks to do it.
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. There are no Cloud magicians, and you can’t hire a PLG magician. Let’s jump right into the questions.
Outseta
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Investment funds like Indie.VC Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate.
Kellblog
JANUARY 29, 2020
Why are you and your team the best people to invest in? Some startups have relatively complete teams while others have only a CEO and CTO and a few functional directors. That takes a lot of hiring and on-boarding risk off the table. Ditto for most hiring across the company. Completeness. Prior exactly-relevant experience.
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