SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In this new SaaStr series called “What’s new at…,” Jason Lemkin chats with WorkOS CEO and founder Michael Grinich about what it takes to be Enterprise ready in SaaS, building vs. buying, and who the stakeholders are in a B2D motion. They offer all the features you need to sell to Enterprise customers. It’s not an option.

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Enterprise readiness Payment Solutions Enterprise Payments 234

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

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 can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. It’s the people.

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Scale Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Fractional VPE 255

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

We recently brought together a powerhouse panel of women in revenue to discuss when, why, and how a company should consider going upmarket. . Keeping the marketing team aligned with the sales team and product team is imperative before going upstream. . Usually either by the number of employees or company revenue.

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Scale SMB Sales Hiring Enterprise readiness 277

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2020

On Wednesday, December 16th at 9:00 AM PT, Redpoint Office Hours will welcome Giancarlo ‘GC’ Lionetti , the CMO of Confluent, which was founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka® and pioneered the enterprise-ready event streaming platform. How do you think about hiring? Interested in attending?

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Enterprise readiness Software Engineering 185

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2020

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. Or churn will increase, NPS will stagnate and decline, and upsell and revenue retention will be a fraction of what it could be.

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Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Fractional VPE Sales Recruiting 236

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. In this talk, CircleCI VP of Revenue Jane Kim will talk about the 5 mistakes all new sales leaders make. Jane Kim | VP of Revenue @ CircleCI. Want to see more content like this?

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 163

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Sales wants more features. In this conversation recorded at ELC 2023, Segment’s former CRO Joe Morrissey and former chief product development officer Tido Carriero discuss how they turned sales-product tension into a successful $3.2B The problem is the sales team. The sales team don’t know how to sell the product.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Underperforming Technical Team 86