Sat.Jul 25, 2020

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How Do I Structure My First 1-25 Sales Reps?

SaaStr

Q: What is a typical organizational structure for a SaaS startup with sales reps? A rough structure from 1–25 sales reps: Early days: CEO acts as VP of Sales. CEO hires 2 reps, in the beginning, each barely pays for themselves, but by months 4–6 they are able to close 3x-5x their total compensation. Once 2+ reps can do 3x-5x their comp, the model gets pretty efficient.

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How to Recruit a Marketing Team with Great Product Marketing and Demand Generation Abilities

Tom Tunguz

Marketing has many disciplines. Bill Macaitis counts nine. Gabe Larsen enumerates more. Howeve you may count and divide marketing skills, marketing is the team with the broadest mandate of different techniques to master. To handle this complexity, some startups have split the role under two leaders: a head of product marketing and a head of demand generation.

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Are We Due for a SaaSacre?

Kellblog

I was playing around on the enterprise comps [1] section of Meritech ‘s website today and a few of the charts I found caught my attention. Here’s the first one, which shows the progression of the EV/NTM revenue multiple [2] for a set of 50+ high-growth SaaS companies over the past 15 or so years [3]. While the green line (equity-value-weighted [4]) is most dramatic, the one I gravitate to is the blue line: the median EV/NTM revenue multiple.