SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

Sales Hiring 161

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 161

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

I mean, maybe you do, but I don’t know anyone right now with extra money, time, or people, right? Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. The problem was he couldn’t find a platform to use.

Payment Methods 211

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 211

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Yousuf Khan: Well, the CIO is fundamentally owning the business technology function of the company. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. My advice is hire earlier rather than later.

Technical Advisors 164

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 164

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. I came back to G2 as a CEO about three quarters ago after a little bit time at SteelBrick. ” We had to do that three times. And by 2003 we were almost out of business.

Sales Recruiting 177

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 177

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

While startups have ups and downs, if you tell the VCs you’re going to hit $250,000 in revenue this month … make 100 percent sure you hit that projection. At least, just that one month during the funding process. I don’t see this all the time, but I see it too often. Sometimes that’s fine. VCs get it, and get how it works.

Finance 291

Finance Technical Review CTO Hire New CTO 291

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. The first few dozen courses that we published on the platform were authored by the Pluralsight co founders. Then another really interesting thing happened.

B2B 134

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 134