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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. Account Managers: They serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters. Before the hiring process, take some time to decide on your current needs and hire as your company grows.

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Stop Following These 10 Terrible Pieces of SaaS Advice with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin (SaaStr Podcast 682)

SaaStr

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. If, in one sales cycle, things aren’t improving on several core metrics, they never will. The best VPs of Sales hit the ground running.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. What were the core mistakes that he made with RJ Metrics? Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? Loving our podcast content?

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The B2B Marketplace Funding Napkin 2021

Point Nine Land

To add to this, B2B marketplaces tend to have various different business models (commission, SaaS, not monetizing in the beginning), which makes it very difficult to come up with one-size-fits-all metrics for each funding round. However, given that sales tend to be founder-led, it’s difficult to get precise data around payback time and CAC.

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Be Careful Hiring “Dualies” — Folks That Are a VP of More Than One Thing

SaaStr

A VP of Sales and Success A VP of Sales and Marketing A VP of Sales and Anything Else. Is usually not really a VP of Sales. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had to recruit a lot of types of folks over the years where my domain knowledge was limited. I’ve had to recruit Ph.Ds.

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A Canoo for two

ProfitWell

First up, stop measuring your success by vanity metrics , like views and ‘likes’ on your videos, for example. The Athletic 's strategy for the past three years has been to hire top-talent journalists in the sports space, getting people to pay for high-quality journalistic content. So here’s where we need to steer clear.