SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

Now, I just invest in SasS companies. How do I increase pricing? When you hire a VP of Sales and all they want to talk about in the interview is strategy, strategy, strategy, I’m not sure they’re a closer. If you’ve hired the VP of Engineering, impossible hire, but when they love something, they jump.

Sales Hiring 248

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 248

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Hire the VP of Marketing, MBA, the VP of Sales, MBA, the VP of Customer, MBA, the VP of Engineering, MBA, and now, the odds of any semblance of survival, let alone success, are vanishingly small at this point. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company.

Part-Time VPE 209

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 209

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

Something that we did really poorly at TalentBin early on was not really focusing on a very crisply defined ICP and insufficiently investing in customer success. Like a VP of engineering would go to some conference, and hear someone on stage talking about how they need to be spending all their time doing recruiting, etc, etc.

Part-Time VPE 192

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 192

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

People were investing a lot of time to have good performance, but they were not reaching a good enough results. Even if we decided to use bare-metal infrastructure, even if we decided to do everything ourself, we did try to lower our investment as much as possible. The engineering team was super, super small at this moment.

Scale 123

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 123