By Katie Burns
May 21 2018
Founder, Greater Sum Ventures
Sep 03 2019
A new sales leader reached out this week to ask when she should hire her first sales development representative (SDR). What a great question, and luckily, it’s a pretty black and white answer. LET’S START WITH WHEN IT’S NOT TIME TO HIRE YOUR FIRST SDR. It’s too soon to hire your first SDR when: You haven’t landed any actual, […]
Jul 25 2018
Jason Lemkin once theorized there are “…100,000+ SaaS apps out there.” Seems impossible until you start to consider that there are 6,500+ marketing technology companies alone. And there are about 800 in the sales tech landscape. What must there be in finance, HR, and operations? And education, productivity, BI, ERP and BPM and on and […]
Mar 07 2019
Everything a SaaS CEO does is steeped in urgency. We’re in growing businesses beholden to outpace fast-paced markets. We often run razor thin, allocating as much cash as we can to maximizing our growth rate. But if our outward CEO temperament crosses the line from urgency to stress, bad things happen. Teams lose faith. Investors lose confidence. […]
