Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Writer’s decision to make PLG table stakes and how they leverage their motion to secure enterprise customers. Tips for recruiting the best possible team members and how patience factors into that. 31:07) A consultative sales process and messaging considerations. (36:56) Career insight from years of operating.

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Sales Recruiting Enterprise AI Banking 93

SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Hiring a VP of Sales isn’t new, but the conversations have evolved as the world has. Jason has written about the cheat codes for hiring VPs of Sales since 2012 and realized it was worth a deeper dive. Jason has written about the cheat codes for hiring VPs of Sales since 2012 and realized it was worth a deeper dive.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales Interviewing 148

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2021

We’ve talked a lot about hiring a VP of Sales at SaaStr , and if you hire a stretch VP of Sales (as most of you will) … how much you can stretch. A related question is — just how quickly can you gain the requisite experience to be a true first time VP of Sales? Month 16: promoted to enterprise rep.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting SMB Sales 287

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

SaaStr 603: SaaStr CRO Confidential Presents the Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation, Quotas and Recruiting with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin. SaaStr 602: Secrets To Combining PLG and Enterprise Sales with Grammarly CEO Brad Hoover. ?. Hosted by Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund. ? ? ?.

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Sales Recruiting Compensation Cloud Retention 228

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2022

Mapistry recruited a diverse pool by inviting both legacy customers and new customers. . New customers add value to your CABs with their fresh experience with your sales cycle and onboarding processes. Which customer segments best represent your growth focus? Keep in mind that prospective board members lead busy lives.

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Sales Recruiting Enterprise Onboarding Investment 239

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Nabbing enterprise clients could mean fewer deals to reach revenue goals. Just one enterprise client could lead to more thanks to the power of word-of-mouth and familiarity — “If this enterprise company likes their solution, then I’ll probably like it too.” Before you rush in for the sale, you need to assess everything.

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Enterprise Technical Review Sales Recruiting Scale 139

Mucker Capital

APRIL 2, 2024

In this Mucker Growth session, Mike Genstil with ValueCore delves into the concept of value selling and its application in enterprise sales. Quantifying pain and value, even early in the sales process, is shown to be beneficial, leading to higher win rates and deal sizes. Deals can slip due to a variety of reasons.

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Sales Recruiting Technical Review Enterprise Cybersecurity 52

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But building a sales compensation plan that both aligns your sales team’s compensation with your customers’ objectives and recruits top salespeople can be incredibly difficult in usage-based pricing. Determine where your sales team makes your customers more successful In usage-based pricing, value = usage.

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Compensation Sales Recruiting Sales Systems Review 90

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 26, 2019

” Prioritizing women is sales and other business sectors continues to be a challenge for businesses, but recruiting women of color—that’s a greater challenge yet. Key Issues in Hiring Saleswomen of Color: Women in sales is challenging. Having women in sales is important. Women in Sales: It’s Challenging.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture 55

SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I was on a group Zoom with a number of CROs and VPs of Sales the other day and a consistent theme came up: everyone was surprised how high OTEs (On Target Earnings) had held up in the current environment. An enterprise rep might be looking for a $200k OTE, with say a $100k base and a $100k bonus. Look, it just makes sense.

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Sales Recruiting Venture Capital Enterprise Sales 200

SaaStr

JANUARY 23, 2024

Efficiency goes down in other places (sales efficiency usually, marketing efficiency often). Account expansion starts to work. The best mid-market and enterprise SaaS companies grow their accounts 120%-160% as a cohort, inclusive of churn. It’s much cheaper to renew a customer than to acquire one. You have redundancy.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling Branding 198

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2024

They discuss Sam’s learnings at Founders Fund, what the 2024 playbook looks like, hiring and motivating sales teams, and a handful of audience questions. On the sales side, people hired way too much. More salespeople do not equal more sales. Sam just finished 18 months at Founders Fund after joining in mid-to-late 2022.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Headcount 254

SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2023

So one recent survey we did really brought out a healthy debate: does your VP of Sales really need to be a product expert? Many of the comments said it was more important a VP of Sales understand process and leadership more than the product itself. They often melt. I say, you just gotta know the product. Not just with buzzwords.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 227

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

What should you look for in an Enterprise rep vs. a Mid-Market rep? Sales reps were hosting 4-6 calls daily but most of these calls were early demos or top-of-funnel discovery calls Sales was closing really small deals on one end while talking to really large companies with hundreds of thousands of people on the other.

Scale 226

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 226

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Chuck is the co-founder of Blueprint Expansion , a GTM roles recruiting firm that has helped over 50 VC-backed companies make amazing Sales, Marketing, & Customer Success hires. By using the power of AI to identify and engage the accounts and buying groups most likely to purchase.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Interviewing SMB 103

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

How do you win with a high-velocity sales strategy in a fast-moving, competitive market? In a special session of Workshop Wednesday, Gorgias Founder & CEO Romain Lapeyre and Gorgias VP of Sales & Partnerships Aasif Osmany share their learnings, advice, and hacks for optimizing your sales process. Enterprise?

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Sales Hiring SMB Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 164

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Gartner: SaaS Spend In the Enterprise Will Grow 17% to $195 Billion in 2023. SaaStr 603: SaaStr CRO Confidential Presents the Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation, Quotas and Recruiting with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin. 5 Interesting Learnings from Duolingo at $360,000,000 in ARR. Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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Sales Recruiting AWS Compensation Enterprise 222

SaaStr

MAY 31, 2021

Still, an overall deep-dive on lessons learned the second and third time around: Not Easier : Recruiting – Not Easier. You might think after (goodness) the best part of 20 years of working in tech, 18 as an executive or CEO, and 13 as a founder … I’d be pretty good at recruiting at this point. I’m not.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Branding 320

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 265

Part-Time VPE Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 265

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. Q: What’s the number one challenge for scale-up founders? You’ll need more than 5–6 core engineers to go big.

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Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Fractional VPE Sales Recruiting 234

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

They credit this growth to their global team, a switch to an enterprise business model switch, and flexible work operations. Storyblok started with a leadership-first hiring plan and a recruitment strategy that involved the following: A test to know how candidates handle different tasks and their expertise level.

Scale 195

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scaling 195

Kellblog

MAY 10, 2021

In this post, I’ll present what I view as the minimum sales management framework for an enterprise SaaS startup — i.e., the basics you should have covered as you seek to build and scale your sales organization [1]. Pipeline management rules, with an optional stage matrix. Management rules (e.g.,

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Enterprise 111

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2021

If I had, I would have better understood the likely end point vis-a-vis freemium vs. enterprise. Not Hiring 2-3 Sales Reps to Start. More on that here: When You Hire Your First Sales Rep — Just Make Sure You Hire Two. Our first ‘enterprise’ customer seemed like an outlier. We should have taken $2m more.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale SaaS 264

SaaStr

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s the most common objection you’ll get in SaaS sales … Not Right Now. It can’t strategically improve sales software, financial software, quoting software, recruiting software, QA processes, call center software, etc. It usually takes 3-4 years in the enterprise for this to happen, 1-2 in SMBs. I Don’t Have Budget.

Sales Recruiting 254

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Technical Review Software Review 254

SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

Recruitment: Getting the right talent onboard is a critical step. Sales: You must understand how to grow your sales machine, and it isn’t easy. Sales: You must understand how to grow your sales machine, and it isn’t easy. In fact, you need both to optimally grow your sales efforts. Surprises Along the Way.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Software Delivery Travel 196

SaaStr

MAY 3, 2021

A new edition, new services, an outbound sales team, an account management / upsell team. From $1m to $10m ARR or so, as you build your first management team: You shouldn’t be the VP of Sales Anymore As You Scale. You still need to spend 15-20% of your time in sales. Add a layer. the prospects).

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Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 273

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services 121

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I hear again and again from SaaS founders growing to $5m, $10m ARR or even more that they don’t need a certain VP — with the exception of a VP of Sales. Basically, in SaaS, everyone “gets” that they need a VP of Sales. To get to $5m-$10m ARR and beyond, we’ll need a real VP of Sales. But trust me.

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Sales Hiring CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 356

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It’s an even bigger deal in the enterprise, where the playbook to closing large deals is more critical to have down. The companies that create the SVPs you’ll need, especially in Sales and Marketing, are still mostly based in the SF Bay Area. Even today. With SMBs, you can hack it a bit more. At least, not for now.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Scaling 303

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

A head of sales that doesn’t recruit at least one strong rep in the first 90 days. A VP of Sales that has never done outbound, if they don’t take it on fairly early — they never really will. But the top VPs of Sales know you have to get it going soon. Never will. That hits quota or better. Never will.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring SMB Engineering 320

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Head of Sales. Positions Needed: Enterprise AEs, Mid-Market & SMB AEs, SDRs, Sales Ops, Sales Engineer. Positions Needed: FP&A Analyst, Accountant, HR, Ops, Recruiter.

CTO Hire 245

CTO Hire Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO 245

SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

#1: Todd McKinnon, CEO Okta: “Building a Higher Performance Organizaion” A really great, open session on what Okta got right to win: Todd is humble and candid about how they won (going enterprise, early) and where it ended up being OK they were a bit late, or took time to win (mobile, dev). How to recruit in a less hot space.

Scale 174

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SMB 174

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2022

Strong sales reps are the lifeblood of your business and how you choose to invest in them matters. For frontline sales managers, attributes like competency, quality of work, ease of execution, and length of contribution indicate reps’ overall job success, but you can’t rely on those inputs to tell you if they are personally satisfied.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Retention Sales 98

Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

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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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 93

SaaStr

JANUARY 9, 2020

For example, Google put a lot of work into Google Hire, its recruiting SaaS product. Salesforce is really 4+ clouds that are all at scale (sales, marketing, commerce and platform). Accelerated Enterprise Credibility. Everyone in Cloud is now dueling in the enterprise. But then shut it down. Salesforce.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Cloud 245

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

They talked about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium models and lessons they have learned throughout their successful SaaS careers. As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Recruiting is easier, but the things that don’t change are customers don’t care.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 247

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

The first goal of sales at a startup isn’t to bring in revenue — it’s to get customer feedback. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. Use sales conversations as a tool to get product feedback. So how do you get there?

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Sales Recruiting Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring 88