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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

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Positions Needed: Enterprise AEs, Mid-Market & SMB AEs, SDRs, Sales Ops, Sales Engineer. Positions Needed: Enterprise CSM, Mid-Market & SMB CSM, Customer Support Reps, Implementation/Solutions Engineer. CTO (40 Employees). CTO (114 Employees). Team Size: 12. Head of Product. Team SIze: 4 -5. Head of Sales.

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Startup 411: Building for Scale with Google Cloud, Stairwell, Mashvisor, and Inworld.ai (Video)

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Mike Wiacek, CEO at Stairwell, Mo Jebrini, CTO at Mashvisor, and Michael Ermolenko, CTO at Inworld.ai, discuss with Helene Ambiana, Global SMB and Startups Marketing Director at Google Cloud, how they overcame the hurdles of scaling and reached their goals. . Build an irreplaceable team .

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What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In?

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But a great head of demand gen (or maybe growth hacking if you are SMB) should be very accretive at even $20k in MRR. No matter how great a hacker your CTO is. This will seem crazy early to many of you. Imagine you are organically growing 4x, so from say $200k in ARR this year to $800k by the end of the year. Are their exceptions here?

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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

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5/ Moving from CTO-led -> VPE-led dev team. Most of us hire a VP of Engineering to take over from our CTO because we see the CTO is getting burnt out, or has trouble building a dev team > 8-9 folks, or gets disinterested in solving technical debt, bugs, etc. Field vs. mid-market vs SMB early. More here.

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Lessons from New Relic: Five Critical Steps to Scaling Enterprise (Video + Transcript)

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When we were SMB focused in the early years, our sales cycles were quick. Product org changes quite a bit as well and as one chief product officer shared with me, he said, “You know, when we made the transition from SMB to enterprise, we went from being kind of in control of our own destiny and certainly of our own time.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

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Sam Taylor: On my first leadership role, I was the first enterprise sales rep, a manager of mid-market team. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. And so I was their first sales leadership hire. I had an opportunity to be one of their first five sales reps. And so, I got to just grow up, if you want to put it that way.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

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Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. In terms of timing, how should entrepreneurs think about whether to start at SMB and move to enterprise or start enterprise and move to SMB?