Blog Posts, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources
As you approach $50m, $60m, $100m ARR You can hire folks that always worked at Big Companies You'll need them Then — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin #ДобісаПутіна (@jasonlk) January 5, 2022…
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Blog Posts, Hiring, Human Resources
I hear again and again from SaaS founders growing to $5m, $10m ARR, or even more, that they don’t need a certain VP — with the exception of a VP…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Hiring, Human Resources, Q&A, Scale
Q: Dear SaaStr: What are Some Common Decisions SaaS Startups Make that Hurt Their Ability to Scale? My partial list: Hiring “too low” to save money. A VP at $150k-$180k,…
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Blog Posts, Diversity & Inclusion, Featured Videos, Hiring, Human Resources, Sales, Videos
Handshake VP, Employer Partnerships Jessica Peluso shares some changes that you can make to your brand, and your application, interview, and offer process that will help find the talent you are trying to attract and hire.
Blog Posts, Company Culture, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Human Resources, Leadership, Podcasts
Raise CEO and Co-founder, Justin Bedecarre, and President, Felipe Gomez-Kraus, discuss how SaaS companies can build successful hybrid workplaces that are empathetic while incentivizing their team to return to the office.
Blog Posts, Company Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, Podcasts, Videos
CEO at UpWork, Hayden Brown, breaks down the tectonic shift in work happening at a lightning pace. She spotlights the role of freelancers in new-age businesses with granular insights into how UpWork scaled through the years relying on its freelance workforce.
Blog Posts, Company Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Engineering, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, Podcasts, Product, Videos
Loom CEO Joe Thomas shares how async communication improves the work experience, enhances company culture, and builds a better business.
Blog Posts, Customer Success, Human Resources
In SaaS, there are a lot of great “rules” that do make sense overall but can be confusing or borderline misleading at times. E.g., Sales +Marketing Expenses < First Year…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources, Sales
We’ve talked a lot on SaaStr about how to hire a Great VP of Sales, and how you have to close the first 10 or so customers yourself, and how when…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources
I agree with most Start-Up Truisms. One of the best ones is Don’t Chase the Shiny Penny. Double Down on What Works. For sure this is true in SaaS. If you’ve…
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Hiring, Human Resources, Q&A
Q: What are some top hiring tips for early-stage startups? The best founders are relentless recruiters. Truly relentless. However, very few started out that way Your job in 2022 is…
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Blog Posts, Hiring, Human Resources, Sales
Hopefully, sometime over the next few weeks, you’ll finish up your model and planning for next year. If not, please try to do it before 12/31 … 🙂 I’m working…
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Blog Posts, Compensation, Human Resources
I was curious the other day how many of the recent Cloud and SaaS IPOs had founders that were equal co-founders from an equity perspective. That was how I was…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources, Marketing, Metrics
If you want to hit the plan for Q1'22, You need to be hiring all the sales reps you'll need then … Now — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (@jasonlk) September…
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Blog Posts, Human Resources, Leadership
Q: What do mediocre employees do that the best employees don’t do? My list of what mediocre employees do: Unable to hit deadlines. This is different than missing a few,…
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