Seth DeHart has advised 85 B2B SaaS with building and optimizing their sales engines after he led revenue teams at Revinate and Framer. In this episode of The Revenue Lab, Seth shares the most common GTM mistakes he saw while scaling from 0 to $10M in ARR:
Common GTM scaling mistakes
When & how to make the first sales hires
(Mis-)judging product-market fit
You can find more information about Seth here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethdehart/
RevOps Letter: https://www.getweflow.com/revopsletter
Janis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippstelzer/
Philipp on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janiszech/
Weflow: https://www.getweflow.com/
Marker:
(00:00:00) Scaling from 0 to 10 million
(00:08:33) Founder stop selling too soon
(00:09:22) First sales hires
(00:14:45) Comp for first sales hires
(00:16:50) Ramp time for founding AE
(00:20:49) Hiring by company stage (00:24:16)
(00:23:11) Misjudging product-market-fit
(00:27:33) Managing sales capacity