SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders? In SaaS, once you have even a few million in ARR, the #1 challenge is recruiting top-tier VPs and building a truly top-tier management team: SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap.

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SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2020

Q: What’s the number one challenge for scale-up founders? In SaaS, it is recruiting your VPs and management team : SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Kim Rose , VP of Customer Success at Buildium. Kim is a successful executive who spent 8 years out of the workforce. She’s walking us through how to render long-term success in the workforce and add customer value in your career. How’d she do it?

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

If it’s helpful to you, it’s got everything from how to build the sales com plan to how to think about hiring a VP marketing and how to hire a customer success thing. You have to create a repeatable process if you’re going to scale up the sales team. They know how to scale. And let me step back.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

Something that we did really poorly at TalentBin early on was not really focusing on a very crisply defined ICP and insufficiently investing in customer success. Like a VP of engineering would go to some conference, and hear someone on stage talking about how they need to be spending all their time doing recruiting, etc, etc.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Hire the VP of Marketing, MBA, the VP of Sales, MBA, the VP of Customer, MBA, the VP of Engineering, MBA, and now, the odds of any semblance of survival, let alone success, are vanishingly small at this point. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company.

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