SaaStr
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Q: Dear SaaStr: How Can I Develop Confidence as a Startup CEO? But you need to be confident enough to lead the team and make everyone believe. Care about your team for real. Caring about your team and colleagues alone isn’t enough. Your team needs to look up to you. Don’t be weak.
SaaStr
JANUARY 2, 2024
ARR, Zendesk today gets 14% of new business from startups. On top of that, if you look at their top accounts globally, 33 of the top 50 customers by ARR are startups. You don’t want conflict with the sales team. How do you leverage that offer to develop relationships with partners? At 16 years and $1.6B A free term.
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SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel is featured in one of our most-watched SaaStr videos of all time — so we were delighted to have him back during our SaaStr at Home event to share the top 5 things that kill startups after their seed rounds, and how to avoid them. Startup in a space you have organic insights in. 2 Investor = Boss.
SaaStr
JANUARY 16, 2023
Most salespeople will succeed somewhere … but fail at >your< specific startup. Earlier stage startups: – Have no brand – Have no/little training – Have very few resources. Most important is making sure they will thrive at your startup. More here. Most actually cannot do it. If not, slow it down.
Tom Tunguz
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
This is the theoretically ideal organizational chart of a startup. There’s a CEO at the top in red, VPs in orange, senior contributors in dark gray, team leads in green, and junior individual contributors in light gray. This is the org chart of the typical startup. Is this so bad? That won’t work.
OnStartups
MAY 18, 2021
All the points below have been pulled from startup sales teams that I think work pretty well (including the team at CRM software company, HubSpot). Building Startup Sales Teams. They’re not bad people, they’re just different from you, especially if you're an introverted geek like me. The math won’t work.
SaaStr
JUNE 20, 2023
Others are very hands-on advisors, spending many hours per month at startups other than the one they work at. If a VP of Sales has a $500k+ OTE and a big team to manage, does it even make senses to sell courses on the side? Once you had something, once you had scale, then go help one other startup. That was the rough rule.
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