SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

You’re in the valley, you raise venture capital. I want to come be your VP of sales and, you’re going to meet me for the first time. Spencer : For me, the key things for a VP of sales is, “OK, tell me about your best reps. Spencer : This is something we screwed up a lot of different times.

VP of Engineering 267

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 267

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I started a software company in college to make it easy to update websites called Content Management Software Now, and I had this idea for Pardot, I wanted to make it easy for marketers to run campaigns online and measure their results. We raised $0 of venture capital. From a product point of view, our timing was impeccable.

Sales Recruiting 161

Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 161

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO. Patrick Campbell, CEO, ProfitWell.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. And I started as an engineer and as an MBA and frankly in business school back then they didn’t even have a class on sales. And I think most of your teams, you need sales engineers, you need founders.

Sales Recruiting 170

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 170

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Other signs of explosive growth potential at this early stage are a highly efficient sales motion, though this is most often still a work in progress at this stage. Interest from channel partners and sales via channel partners can be another meaningful indicator. . I’ve seen this so many times that is has become predictable. .

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In light of the sale of Buildium last month I figured now is as good of a time as any to reflect on the most important ones. There was no strike price or vesting schedule associated with these units—they were simply granted to employees based on performance or as a recruiting tool. The business was structured as an LLC.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? How does David think about payback period on a per rep basis?

Scale 184

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 184

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Aileen Lee: Is the price going to be double? If the price doesn’t double, I mean, that’s a restaurant question too, right? Jason Lemkin: I mean, if prices double, it all works. ” From a sales perspective, how is that going to change sales? There was price, place, promotion, and product.

Investment 157

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 157

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

At this stage, you should be asking yourself these main questions: Am I tracking metrics and looking to optimize pricing? The main question a SaaS company should be asking itself at this stage is: When is the last time we checked our pricing strategies? You can find out more about pricing in the SaaS business model here.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. You don’t really care who that human is, you care about the price.

Sales Recruiting 164

Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 164

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. Heidi Jannenga : When we’ve again, first started going out and looking for funding, everybody wants to amplify your sales strategy. The first thing you bring in your playbook on sales. We schedule a demo in the same day.

Scale 166

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 166

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Also, don’t miss out on the lowest prices EVER on SaaStr Annual 2020 tickets. And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. For the first 10 years when we didn’t do one media interview and we got to 50 million in sales. Ryan Smith: 500 million in sales.

Acquisition 125

Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 125

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’m a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, which is a venture capital firm, which was very lucky to be a part of SendGrid’s journey. We had a great easy-to-use pricing model. We were signing up hundreds of new paying customers every month with five sales reps. It was still a ubiquitous market.

Scale 128

Scale Acquisition Scaling Sales Hiring 128

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And today, of course, we have a recruiting team. We have a great recruiting team and they partner with the hiring managers. But even to this day, hiring managers are responsible for building their teams. And again, we have a much bigger organization today and the recruiters partner with them to build great people in.

Sales Hiring 176

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 176