SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders? 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 will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap.

Scale 237

Scale Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Fractional VPE 237

SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2024

So Okta is one of our favorite SaaS and Cloud leaders. Founder CEO Todd McKinnon was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and left to start Okta in the depths of the last downturn. But like many SaaS and Cloud leaders today, the bigger ones are still growing faster. Their multi-million dollar contracts are 30%. #5.

Fractional VPE 202

Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Scale SMB 202

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2020

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

Part-Time VPE 226

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Fractional VPE Sales Recruiting 226

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Of course, not at scale.

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

Then, we have this community in SaaS — SaaStr. If it’s helpful to you, it’s got everything from how to build the sales com plan to how to think about hiring a VP marketing and how to hire a customer success thing. There are a handful of us, but most of us are either from engineering or product backgrounds.

Sales Hiring 245

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 245

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich, Developer Success Manager Betsy Calender, and VP of Developer Experience Zeno Rocha share how to price your product for developers, how to market it to developers, how to how to support them as they scale and use the products. The contract size grows. Doing Business with Developers. Bottom-up sales.

Underperforming Technical Team 169

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Pete made his way into the world of SaaS and how he came to be one of the leading figures on sales operations and management that he is today. * So it’s a wonderful world, SaaS, but it’s also an interesting one. Which is not great for your SaaS metrics.

Part-Time VPE 187

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 187