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The Difference Between a VP of Sales and a CRO

Sales Hacker

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)?

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Stop Following These 10 Terrible Pieces of SaaS Advice with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin (SaaStr Podcast 682)

SaaStr

2 “Give the VP of Sales more time.” You can’t always expect a great VP of Sales to double sales in 30-60-90 days. But you have to see progress in one sales cycle. If, in one sales cycle, things aren’t improving on several core metrics, they never will. The best VPs of Sales hit the ground running.

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

The Angel VC

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

Point Nine Land

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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10 Things That Aren’t Obvious About Partnering With Big Companies – Workday Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

They might be sales operations challenges. We hear everything about privacy, data handling, because of the nature of the solution that we have in the enterprise. Can we put our product on your paper and your sales team of 4,000, 5,000 people sell a product? Or just help me figure that out as we scale. We hear this a lot.

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Jun 09 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Partnering very closely with sales teams to engage with leaders at prospective customers and existing customers to define goals and leverage the products and services to achieve them. Working alongside the Sales Director assigned to the account to plan and improve revenue – specifically renewals and up-sell opportunities.

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Learning to Love the Art of Sales (As a Technical Founder) with Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft (Europa Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. It was pretty interesting. That just creates a flywall effect.