SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The four stages of growth are: Early stage Early growth Growth Pre-IPO Each of those stages has key GTM milestones, benchmarks, and team-building strategies that allow you to grow effectively. But to develop a GTM strategy, you must have Product Market Fit. Founders are still leading sales and are very good at it.

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SaaStr

MAY 6, 2021

You might never have considered a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) because it’s not been a common role until very recently, and because you might not have the kind of revenue that needs its own manager. If you’re a company that has a 100% sales-driven business model, it makes sense to hire a big-deal revenue person.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 31, 2022

Having learned from thousands of customers and prospects, Sarah Lash, Envoy’s head of enterprise sales, will talk about what it takes to guide and scale enterprise sales programs during an uncertain future. In my first six months at Envoy , I grew the sales team from six to 17. Combine Strategies To Drive Sales.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

He brought up a very interesting topic that many GTM leaders / founders face as a challenge when scaling a startup; highlighting the 3 stages of executive hires as you scale and what to look out for qualitatively. You need to hire people who are very much think like you, as a founder. Their superpower is based on hiring other leaders.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2024

They discuss Sam’s learnings at Founders Fund, what the 2024 playbook looks like, hiring and motivating sales teams, and a handful of audience questions. On the sales side, people hired way too much. More salespeople do not equal more sales. If that’s true, then you should absolutely hire more salespeople.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 10, 2021

It’s that sales representatives are one of the toughest positions to hire for. The demand for sales reps is one of the highest of any job. Sales courses are largely absent from college curricula. Most sales managers will tell you that they’re looking above all for the right attitude. Leadership.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2023

B2B founders and sales agents feel pressured to keep up with the rapidly evolving market. SaaS companies must implement flexible and innovative sales strategies that can weather the future. The state of B2B sales in 2023 Before creating a dynamic strategy, it is essential to understand the current state of B2B sales.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. Lessons in leadership Grow your organization thoughtfully.

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SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2023

So one recent survey we did really brought out a healthy debate: does your VP of Sales really need to be a product expert? Many of the comments said it was more important a VP of Sales understand process and leadership more than the product itself. They often melt. I say, you just gotta know the product. At least a little bit.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In this week’s episode of CRO Confidential, Founders Fund Investor Sam Blond sits down with the SVP of Sales at Modern Health, Hannah Willson, to discuss how companies can adapt to the current sales environment and how to correct course when you don’t have a right-sized sales team. What Sales Team Size Is The Right Size?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2024

Mistake #1: Not Participating in Company Strategy CMOs need to be involved, and a common mistake founders make is not involving them in strategic conversations within the C-suite. “Typically that was the marketing hat in my case, but sometimes it was the sales hat or thinking about finance or other areas of the business.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

As he told me a few days ago, he has observed the lack of sales management and sales execution skills as one of the most consistent deficiencies limiting the potential of early stage SaaS companies. Sales execution deficiency manifests itself at roughly the same time as product market fit.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 8, 2020

According to First Round’s 2019 State of Startups report , sales leadership is the most difficult hire to make. And with sales being a top priority for founders…. …hiring a qualified sales leader is getting harder by the day. But this is not a hire that you want to cut corners on.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. Those with experience in both B2B and B2C sales know that B2B is a lot tougher—the deals are bigger, there’s often more than one decision-maker, and the competition is intense. For all those reasons, hiring and management must be on point.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Companies were growing their sales organizations and bringing in more revenue. The biggest obstacle to hiring was that there simply weren’t too many great candidates on the job market. Companies everywhere have frozen their hiring and laid off workers — with sales reps often among the first to go.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Hiring a global team to achieve the vision What do you do when your company’s location limits your access to talent? You spread your hiring net and draw in as much talent as possible. This was Storyblok’s strategy when it started expanding its team. They also hired a VP of Partners who knew how to scale B2B software.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

If you are looking to scale up your marketing, you will need talented people that can take charge of and execute your strategy. But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? When you hire an agency, you are not just hiring one person. Read on to find out which decision is better for you.

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SaaStr

APRIL 20, 2022

This famous quote from self-help author Robert Collier applies to every sales organization because excellent results come through repeatable activities, not one-off wins. Alice Katwan , SVP at Twilio , discusses how you can build a high-retention sales team while being remote. Implement systems to attract great talent.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2023

Before we get into it, curious to hear your thoughts on last weeks Sales Hacker/GTMnow announcement ?! This week I sat down and interview the VP of Sales at Crunchbase , Ang McManamon. Ang shares her 5 P’s of Sales Leadership: Professionalism Preparation Process Performance Play More on these below.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2021

So how do you simplify and speed up your sales cycles? He started as the first sales hire at TripActions when the company was small and he helped scale the business to 5,000 customers, 1,200 employees and a $5 billion private valuation. Read on for Michael’s insightful advice for driving faster sales cycles. Subscribe.

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2023

Over the years, we’ve done just an incredible number of deep dives, AMAs, and more with many of the best CROs and VPs of Sales in SaaS!

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2022

At the SaaStr Europa 2022 event, Accel Partner Philippe Botteri interviewed PayFit CEO & Co-Founder Firmin Zocchetto to ask about his GTM strategy. . The answer lies in the GTM strategy and Zocchetto shares seven secrets that helped fuel PayFit’s success. . However, this does not mean that you should abandon sales teams.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 10, 2023

At Merrative, we help brands and creators publish thought leadership content formats like interview-based blogs, narratives, non-fiction books, webinars, and data stories – and LinkedIn was working for our growth. I came across the concept of ‘Thought Leadership’ content format while upskilling my writing.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

Successful sales leaders were once great salespeople. Today’s sales leaders require more than the above. To lead a high performance sales team and to achieve the team’s full potential, leaders must take on the role of cheerleader, coach, disciplinarian, physiologist and administrator. Coach your team to success.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Kyle made his way into the world of SaaS and sales and came to be Head of Sales at one of the fastest-growing companies in Figma. What worked?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

If you think sales is a simple job, I have a few hundred professional connections who would like a word with you. There’s a range of key skills that separate the best from the rest, and success belongs to companies who can identify and hire reps who have those precious skills. By mastering your sales interview questions.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If you’re looking to move up the ladder into a sales leadership role, your resume is key to getting your foot in the door. In this article, I’ll share my 3 ground rules of resume-writing, cover the parts of a leadership-level resume, and share a sample resume that will help you take your career to the next level. Volunteering.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2022

Leadership took user feedback seriously, and spent lots of time iterating on the product to ensure that users could get the most value from it. So they shifted their strategy to become more B2B and, in doing so, realized that they could tap into an even more thriving market. Learning Through Changes.

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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Jameson Yung, SVP of Sales at Gong, and Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and previous CRO at Brex, share five tactical ways to get back to growing and hitting revenue targets. Create/ track a leaderboard so i f someone is below average in sales, it’s objective. If you look at the number of Sales vs. Marketing.

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Valuize Consulting

JUNE 9, 2022

If you answered yes to any or all of the above questions, then you urgently need to hire a senior-level Customer Success Operations Leader. With only a Director of Operations who answers to your VP of CS, you have no one to focus on the strategy driving your CS Operations, the engine that powers your entire Customer Success organization.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Leadership must communicate this objective to the entire company and ensure everyone works toward improving efficiency instead of simply bringing in more dollars. However, don’t this doesn’t mean that your sales teams shouldn’t bring in more revenue –– quite the opposite. Firstly, they must be able to hire an excellent team.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2022

Driving peak sales performance is a mission most SaaS companies strive to accomplish. Yet, sales team targets are often set extremely high, with management expecting their teams to miss. Hootsuite CRO Melissa Murray Bailey shares secrets to running a successful SaaS sales team and reducing employee turnover. .

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Now, let’s look at some tried and true strategies that worked for Expensify, and maybe they’ll show you that you can have your cake and eat it, too. Strategy #1: Iterate Using Real User Feedback Make it a habit to iterate on your product using real user feedback. Sometimes… It may be a better strategy to use an outsourced team.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The SaaS sales model seems so well-established, as hundreds of founders build their businesses and raise funding. Mark Roberge, Founder of Stage 2 Capital and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, shares insights from his years of experience into common SaaS sales missteps and how you can avoid them.

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SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2023

Recruit diverse leaders The goal of hiring a revenue leader is to put gasoline on finding product market fit success. Hire a leader who will not only agree with you but someone you can disagree with in a respectful and productive way. Meet with people you can learn from and share ideas, even if it doesn’t convert into a hire.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And it’s not just me: “I was hiring a head of partnerships in my last role and Eric Melchor was the only candidate who showed up not only with a robust understanding of our leaders, and our team but also had an entire slide deck of how he planned to run different partner motions. I hired him on the spot.”

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