Dear SaaStr: What’s #1 On The Path to Becoming a Great VP of Sales?
Dear SaaStr: What’s #1 on the path to becoming a great VP of Sales? Each story is different, but there is one clear penultimate step: recruiting and managing a small sales team yourself. From scratch. What 95 times out of 100 is a recipe for failure is jumping...
The 10 Rules of VC Fundraising — That Many Founders Just Miss
A few “rules” in raising venture capital that founders somehow … seem to constantly miss. Or get wrong: If your existing investors have a strong brand and aren’t positive on you, it can much harder to raise. At a minimum keep them in the loop. Don’t just ignore them...
Dear SaaStr: Is It Easier Being a Sales Manager — Or An Account Executive?
Dear SaaStr: Is It Easier Being a Sales Manager — Or An Account Executive? It’s easier to be mediocre at being a sales manager — as you can have everyone else do the work. It’s harder to be great at being a sales manager, especially as go up to VP level and beyond, as...
New SaaStr Annual 2024 Speakers: CROs of Anthropic, Notion, Zensai, Carta, Rippling, CEOs and CXOs of Jasper, Tableau, Five9, Mulesoft and GitLab
New https://t.co/5gjWmKLRrD 2024 Speakers This Week!!See everyone Sep 10-12 in SF Bay!! – CRO Anthropic– CRO Notion– CRO Zensai– CRO Carta– CCO Tableau– CEO Jasper– CEO EvenUp– CTO AI Five9– CCO Mulesoft–...
Dear SaaStr: I Have a Good Job But Am Not That Happy. Should I Threaten To Quit If It Doesn’t Get Better?
Dear SaaStr: I Have a Good Job But Am Not That Happy. Should I Threaten To Quit If It Doesn’t Get Better? If you’re unhappy at work, should you threaten to quit? I think you can do it once. Once. If you are truly a top performer, top 10%, folks will react....
The Cloud 100 is Hiring For 7,300 Roles. That’s Up From 4,400 Last Year.
So layoffs are still happening and it’s harder in many spaces in SaaS. But don’t let that be too big of an excuse for looking for your next role. Many, many folks in SaaS and Cloud are still growing like a weed. And because SaaS and Cloud overall is still...
Three Mega IPOs That Took A Long, Long Time To Get Big: Squarespace, Procore and UiPath
I know those hot start-ups seem to be lapping you,Growing faster,Raising bigger rounds You should worry But here’s the thing UiPath took 10 years to get to $1m ARR. It’s worth $10B. Procore took 10 years to take off, only once mobile emerged. It’s worth $8B. Etc....
Over 700 VCs Already Coming to 2024 SaaStr Annual! (List UPDATED!!)
Year after year, 100s and 100s of VCs show up to SaaStr Annual locked and loaded, term sheets in hands, on the hunt for soon-to-be Unicorns to add to their portfolios. From the Founding Partners, Managing Directors and big name SaaS VCs who grace the stage. to the...
5 Secrets to a 97% Employee Retention Rate Over 5 Years with Beefree’s CEO and People & Culture Director
Massimo Arrigoni, CEO of Beefree, and Enrica Lipari, the People and Culture Director of Growens, share 5 secrets to a high employee retention rate.
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