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You *know* your exec team desperately needs an offsite. We’ve got the easiest (and best, and cheapest) solution

SaaStr

Your Sales leaders get the playbook from Lattice, Calendly, Snowflake, Confluent, Brex and So. Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different? A New Era of B2B Sales: Three Strategies Growth Leaders Must Implement Today. Karen Tang, VPCS @ Active Campaign. Toni Tiffany, VPCS @ Orum.

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The Top 10 Things to Know Before Starting a SaaS Company

SaaStr

You have to hire so many functions in SaaS – VPS, VPM, VPP, VPCS, VPE, etc. You’ll probably hire the wrong first VP of Sales. Every month, the Net New Revenue dial goes back to $0. If you’re not willing to constantly recruit cross-functionality … you’ll never attract the talent. True in B2C too of course.

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Dear SaaStr: I’m Bootstrapped. How Can I Afford to Hire Any VPs?

SaaStr

Here are some rough rules: You want a VP of Everything (Sales, Marketing, Product, Eng) by about $1m-$2m ARR. But as you approach $8m-$10m ARR, there will be enough revenue. ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. What skills should he or she look for? A bit more here.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. million subscriptions transacted and Google’s marketplace has seen 3X growth in SaaS sales. Jabari Norton.

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Bet On Up-and-Comers. But Add One Veteran For Each $10m ARR.

SaaStr

Often folks they convince to once again be a VP of Eng or VP of Sales. The sales leader that did well, but their startup still didn’t quite make it. A truly experienced VP of Sales, for example, will know exactly how to scale the sales team to hit your revenue goals. The director that wants a shot at VP.

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16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

In 2024, we believe the revenue opportunity will be multiples larger in the enterprise. While they are relying on NPS and customer satisfaction as good proxy metrics, they’re also looking for more tangible ways to measure returns, such as revenue generation, savings, efficiency, and accuracy gains, depending on their use case.