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Steve Pokras

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
301 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

The second, this is kind of a little less obvious, which is be really transparent in your job recs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

I think most job recs are kind of vague with the idea of we'll tell them what the job is once they get there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

Top talent doesn't want to know that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

They want to know what they're getting themselves into, if they're a good fit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

Um, I think most of us are cautious and that every job rec is actually impossible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

There's no one who can fill every single thing on there and you turn off a lot of top talent, the more things that you say, but I think more people are recognizing that now be honest with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

Um, I would love to, uh, Colorado now has a law we're from Denver and, uh, that says that you have to be more transparent on your, on the comp.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

It's actually been really helpful to let people know just what range we're in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

Uh, the last piece.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

Activate your phone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

Am I late yet?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

Is to stick the landing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

This is really customer success.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

So many sales presentations talk about how sales doesn't end the day the contract gets signed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

I think I've seen that presentation a hundred times.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

Your recruitment didn't end the day that you got them on board and that you pass them over to your hiring manager.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

Your hiring manager might hire one person every three years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

That person might've hired their very first person, your entire structure and you as the CEO need to be supporting that person and bringing them on board.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget

And so what do we do?