Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2025

40:53 Ultimately, the ideal state of agents is if you could replicate even a fraction of what that team did, it would be phenomenal because they would constantly be forward seeking things like okay, what is the moment in which somebody is a committed Sales Navigator user? Yeah me also.

Sales Recruiting 79

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring AI Search Scale 79

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developer-led growth is like that, but a bit different, with characteristics around self-serve onboarding similar to freemium. They’re able to actually swipe a credit card, and what starts off similar to a freemium self-serve product can turn into a six-figure contract in just a few months. The contract size grows.

Underperforming Technical Team 210

Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development Part-Time VPE 210

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 290

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 290

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

I can assure you that most people in the tech industry spend countless hours thinking about how to make this happen, investing only a fractional percentage of time thinking about their impact. Hopefully jack up your growth rate enough to be acquired for a massive sum of money. SaaS is way more of a team sport than most companies realize.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2019

With Conga, you can simplify documents, automate contracts, and execute e-signatures so you can focus on accelerating sales cycles and closing business faster. I remember talking with the VP of Engineering (at Carbonite) and basically saying, “Look, I’m sure I’ll figure it out. It’s a fantastic show.

Customer Success 67

Customer Success Scale Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 67

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

How do the best onboard their sales reps? How can sales calls be used for new rep onboarding? 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. I had to onboard reps. That sounds good.

Part-Time VPE 282

Part-Time VPE Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 282

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Meaning like in the onboarding flow of our users, it was taking a few minutes to set up the account, which was causing a huge drop in the process. The engineering team was super, super small at this moment. We were in total four engineers working on the product, including me, including our VP of Engineering, so four in total.

Scale 164

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 164