SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

As a founder, you need to be more involved in functional areas like sales support and success. It’s tough for folks to staff these functions. Give everyone x amount of money to go find the best one. App contraction is still happening, and AI is absorbing all of the energy in the industry. Is SaaS dead right now?

Price 98

Price X-functional Growth B2B 98

SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2023

Mistake: On the other hand… not betting on the team that got me there “Everything will be fine once we get a new head of [X]” -every startup CEO ever (also me, frequently) When you launch a company, the initial team is usually whoever you can get. For this one deal, we just need to do X. To run a startup, you have to make bets.

X-functional 108

X-functional Clients Growth Start-ups 108

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

Startups come in all shapes and sizes on various stages of a timeline, yet it’s not surprising how many have the same questions and concerns about how to scale from x to y to z, the right time to hire and fire, and how to keep a team motivated during hard times. Then things got worse in 2021 because everything was easier.

X-functional 76

X-functional Closing Growth Contract 76

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

Anita Kutlesa is a senior financial executive with nearly two decades of expertise driving performance through cash management, process improvement and strategic planning in start-up, high growth and restructuring environments. I’ve contracted accounting help. The same is true for taxes, US GAAP, contracts, HR… Don’t panic.

Finance 128

Finance Contract X-functional Start-ups 128

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. Building and leveraging a differentiated brand as a growth amplifier [22:29]. He talks about the journey of a marketer leading the entire revenue function on the path to CEO. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Growth 63

Growth Contract Pipeline B2B 63

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I look at my experience through those companies, and I learned a lot about enterprise software sales, about buying patterns, about functions like product management and product marketing, and how they fit into a well functioning and operating company. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success.

E-commerce 105

E-commerce Manufacturing X-functional Retail 105

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Yes, Zoom and Shopify and folks that were huge COVID beneficiaries had a bit of a hit, but even those have resumed their growth path. For a long time, until this boom, until the 2019-2021 boom, crossover funds would be very careful. Jason Lemkin: Then there are different types of growth, late growth and growth.

Quota 86

Quota Growth Product Closing 86