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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. More here.
SaaStr
JANUARY 12, 2022
Another top mistake SMB folks make trying to sell enterprise. As a founder, you’ll just run out of time to properly manage key customers and partners yourself. Hire that person, and make sure they are someone the top customers can really trust and count on. Your key champion might buy just 1 or 2 new products a year.
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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? * Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel?
ChurnZero
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. We hire a third-party firm. We had to say: what does SMB want?
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
Gaetan Gachet : All right, so usually the way I start this session is I ask the crowd which revenue stage they’re in. So when I joined we’re pretty much pre-revenue. So up to 100-150K and SMB, we’re at 2K. So you were the first sales hire. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. One and 10?
SaaStr
JUNE 1, 2021
Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. You will fail if you: 1) try to build a suite of products out of the gate, 2) focus solely on SMBs, or 3) have an MBA. This is the revenue growth for HubSpot leading up to the IPO.
SaaStr
JULY 13, 2023
Startups come in all shapes and sizes on various stages of a timeline, yet it’s not surprising how many have the same questions and concerns about how to scale from x to y to z, the right time to hire and fire, and how to keep a team motivated during hard times. It’s too much to learn on the fly for most new VPs of Sales.
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