Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 15, 2021

Invest in great managers early. Let’s compare the organizational chart of two different startups. On the left, the startup is flat. When startups start, they tend to look like the company on the left. Post-PMF, the organization must evolve: it has to grow headcount and then manage that headcount well.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 3, 2021

Anyone who’s ever worked at a startup knows it’s a “get the job done” environment where your title means little and what you do means a lot. Engineering manages IT. Hiring managers take on HR responsibilities. Specifically, I’m talking about product management and product marketing. CEOs “hit the streets” and sell.

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Product Marketing Sales Hiring Startup Scale 93

Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

Like most things in life, hiring sales talent is a matter of timing. Especially since the best candidates with strong sales skills are usually snatched up within 10 days. That’s why it’s critical to overcome indecision and move quickly when recruiting sales talent. Is it unrealistic sales quotas?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Companies were growing their sales organizations and bringing in more revenue. Companies everywhere have frozen their hiring and laid off workers — with sales reps often among the first to go. I’ll be honest: as the leader of a sales-focused recruiting company, this has been tough for me and my team.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 97

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. Then, the sales team went to work. In his opinion, the hiring process is a preview of their sales technique.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. Before Quip, Sam spent an incredible 3 years at Dropbox where he was the first enterprise sales rep in the entire company. Should you hire 2 at a time?

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 173

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

Ever since he was hired as the Director of EMEA Sales at BrowserStack , a web and mobile testing platform that lets developers test their websites and mobile applications across browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, he had to completely rethink how to successfully onboard hundreds of salespeople just as everyone was going remote.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Amyra Rand , VP of Sales & Strategic Partnerships at Criteria Corp. Amyra is also a member of the Revenue Collective & the Chapter VP at the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals; she is an MBA from Pepperdine. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale 41

OpenView Labs

JUNE 10, 2019

Inner Workings of Product Management at Product Led Growth Companies. At product led growth (PLG) companies like Atlassian and Intercom, product management may look very different from a ‘traditional’ SaaS company. These companies have fewer sales reps (or none at all), meaning more resources get invested into product and engineering.

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Management SaaS Scale Sales Recruiting 55

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

” And in Intercom and elsewhere, we’ve been thinking about what that actually means for startups, for seed-stage companies, all the way through to mid and late-stage companies. Let’s just take, as a target case, a PM or a manager of PMs in a startup who’s being told, “Hey, let’s go and accelerate.”

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SaaSX

JULY 26, 2020

But, I’ve found when you actually look at the work to be done inside of high-growth startups there are some gaps that don’t always fit into a common org chart. . There are a handful of less obvious roles that can make an immediate positive impact on almost any high-growth startup. Is it time for a sales engineer?

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Sales Recruiting Technical Review Scale Startup 64

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

But one thing I know through pattern recognition, there’s a lot of similarities across startups and companies as they go through the different stages. We’re going through layoffs and furloughs, recession planning and for me as the CMO, facing really massive cuts to marketing budgets and headcount. Meagen, sales.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Wiza’s accuracy-obsessed B2B contact database offers 99% coverage of LinkedIn profiles as well as a powerful Chrome extension that enables you to access contact data while browsing LinkedIn profiles and when exporting from Sales Nav. From there, hire a VP of sales whose job it is to replicate what made the initial sales reps successful. #4

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Banking Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 92

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 25, 2019

If you’re reading this, you might be familiar with Paul Graham’s famous article “ Startup=Growth ,” where he lays out the difference between traditional businesses and startups. Paul Graham puts it like this: “A startup is a company designed to grow fast”. Making sure culture scales as you grow.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scaling 136

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired by the release of our book Intercom on Sales , we wanted to take a fresh look at three big topics – speed, automation, and growth. We wanted to know: what are sales leaders doing to bring velocity to their sales cycle? How are they using automation to bring new efficiencies to their sales orgs?

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Kellblog

JUNE 4, 2023

About three years ago, I had a conversation with an old friend that led to a post, Ten Pearls of Enterprise Software Startup Wisdom from My Friend Mark Tice. In that (quite popular) post, I shared Mark’s top ten list of mistakes that enterprise software startups make in sales and go-to-market. Sales alignment and compensation.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

As VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, Elad Gil was a key player as company headcount skyrocketed from 90 to 1,500 employees. This wasn’t Elad’s first experience with hyper growth – Google grew headcount 10x during his time as a product manager there – nor the last. The processes are probably new.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

How does Karl think about working with recruiters? So when I moved back to the states, moved to Utah, and actually met my cofounder who was still a student at the time, and Ben had built the first version of Lucidchart because he needed the product at his previous startup. Do we need a sales org?” What works?

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