article thumbnail

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders? You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap. But you won’t scale past $4m-$5m without a true, seasoned VP of Engineering. As are you.

Scale 237
article thumbnail

Beyond Product-led Growth, 7 Lessons Learned in Product-Led Scaling (Podcast #490 and Video)

SaaStr

Product-led scaling isn’t about growth hacking, and it can be challenging no matter where you’re starting. Rachel Wolan, Dropbox GM, shares wisdom from her years of experience in product-led scaling at Talkdesk, LiveRamp, and Dropbox to help you better scale your company. . What is Product-Led Scaling?

Scale 225
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Growth hacking was invented with a mint julep and two beers

Hitenism

We had all been obsessing over the same thing: marketing in the startup world was going through a massive shift. Larger companies would hire seasoned marketing executives to help grow their businesses but startups didn’t need that. When startups hired seasoned marketers, they got the opposite of growth.

article thumbnail

What Marketing Mostly Means at $0m, $1m, $10m, and $40m ARR

SaaStr

Let’s roughly break up what “marketing” means at different stages of a SaaS company: $0-$1m ARR. Marketing = Growth Hacking. You are the 10,000th SaaS company to market. Add Brand Marketing (and Real Product Marketing). As you truly scale, most of your leads will come from your brand.

Scale 208
article thumbnail

Why Growth Hacking Doesn’t Scale, And How To Plan For Growth Instead

Sales Hacker

Understanding Growth Potential. An increase in Market Size – Every seller now operates in a global marketplace with 10x more buyers, and buyers more accustomed to buying from remote providers. When to Accelerate Growth? Early stages of growth. One of the most recent trends is the use of “ growth hacking.”

Scale 87
article thumbnail

SAAS Marketing Growth Hacking Roadmap For 2021 [19 Strategies]

How To Buy Saas

In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing. What is SAAS marketing? Selling these types of saas businesses to potential buyers using the right medium is called saas marketing. How Is SAAS Marketing Different? This doesn’t happen in one go.

article thumbnail

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Best Way to Get Traction After We Have A Few Paying Customers?

SaaStr

That may sound obvious, but what I mean is, most start-ups scale roughly the same way after $1m-$2m in ARR or so, at a given price point. So he hired 10 SDRs before he ever hired an AE or a marketing head. Growth hacking. Content Marketing. Today, everyone is trying to do ‘content marketing’.

Scale 257