SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But what’s new this year? Let me make a list: New!! But we’re turning this around this year and letting our top-rated practioner speakers do “Masterclasses” on new content teaching you how to scale faster. We’ll have a lot of options, but dead center of Annual is our new Cantina.

New CTO 262

New CTO Sales Recruiting CTO Coach Scale 262

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

I thought it would be worth drilling down deeper into each of them, and sharing the learnings and mistakes: 1/ Spending less time fixing things, more time recruiting senior folks to own them. No one spends enough time recruiting as it is, after $1m ARR or so. Yes, you can manage the sales team yourself. You can do this.

Part-Time VPE 270

Part-Time VPE Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 270

SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

Founders were able to recruit on-site. So we took our learnings from our first successful outdoor event and brought back SaaStr Europa in 2022. The founders and execs of the most successful SaaS companies candidly shared their playbooks, learnings and expertise on the Strategy Stage. VPs were able to recruit and make new hires.

Scale 284

Scale Sales Recruiting CTO Hire New CTO 284

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer. In large companies, the CSM also oversees other customer success roles. Average salary: $100,340/yr. Average salary: $95,566/yr. Average salary: $46,035/yr.

Sales Hiring 93

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 93

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I’ve had roles in almost every function from sales to product to customer success. For the first four years, we didn’t even need to build a professional sales organization. Customers called us. As we rolled things out, it was helpful to look at our customer segments differently in the context of the new paradigm.

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Technical Review 40

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

Q: Where Should SDRs Report — Marketing or Sales? Continuing the conversation on effective team members, it’s important to hire the right people to manage SDRs. A VP of Sales might seem the logical place to have your first SDR team report. But if they’ve never managed a higher turnover SDR team, they often melt.

CTO Hire 187

CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 187

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. Great quote, where he said no matter where we’re selling no matter which customer we’re selling to, we never sold the features of CRM. I sell to my customers, my employees, my investors. And no boring demos.

Sales Recruiting 171

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 171