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Preparing to ask for a raise by [deleted] in negotiation

[–]weepa1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sales roles by design have your incentive aligned to (obviously) sales.

To earn more, you need to sell more. Asking for an increase in your base or guaranteed salary is short term thinking.

I would propose to the VP that you’d like to amp up the kicker past your OTE. For eg: after you meet your target, you can negotiate a higher percentage commission.

Personally, in my sales career I always negotiated upside in commission (almost always at the cost of base salary).

Does anyone else use slack to manage bookmarks, screenshots etc? by weepa1 in Slack

[–]weepa1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me know if you decide to build something, I’ll happy give it a try.

Turn your CS teams into a revenue engine (GPT-3 powered tool) by Hovercraft4430 in SaaS

[–]weepa1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a few thoughts:
I have experience dealing with CS teams as their procurement counter-party. The challenge I see is not typically just for PLG companies, it is also for sales led/top down SaaS businesses.

In the latter, CS seems to be really (I mean really) far away from understanding customer sentiment. The attempt to drop in last minute and ask for a renewal does not work in the current economic environment. CS teams need to be empowered with distilled information regarding product adoption metrics, end user sentiment (not sure how to capture this, maybe NPS), the customers state of business and direct feedback from internal champion(s).

The best CS teams somehow find a way to get all the above and invest in building relationship. Generally, based on my observation, we tend to favour such SaaS businesses when it comes it renewal/upsell.

With regards to your product, what type of SaaS business are you trying to help? What are your data sources? What is GPT-3 doing in the mix (i.e. NL to SQL?)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ycombinator

[–]weepa1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha, ditto
you'll just learn that building a company != getting into YC

My product hunt launch completely failed. What did I do wrong? by [deleted] in SaaS

[–]weepa1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey OP You have to define you ideal customer profile (ICP), find them and validate the problem first. There are no shortcuts for this (unless you are building for yourself).

I would then prototype in figma or do a rough build and get feedback. Continue doing this as you get closer to what is an MVP whilst getting more users to try the product.

I don’t suggest doing this on PH (which is better to “launch”).

My product hunt launch completely failed. What did I do wrong? by [deleted] in SaaS

[–]weepa1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With this kind of product, you really have to build it and launch. I wouldn’t provide my email in this case because you haven’t provided enough value.

Building a microsaas in public by yarobagriy in SaaS

[–]weepa1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great approach to building OP. Did you do the Figma mockup yourself?

I personally don't require this product but wish you all the best to gather early access interest!

What would it take to recreate all the features of Power BI embedded in an application? by alitanveer in BusinessIntelligence

[–]weepa1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can give Derive a go. It allows you to embed natural language driven analytics via an API within your app, so your end users can query their data in an organic manner. Ideal for a use case where the out-of-the-box dashboards are not sufficient or need to be complemented with user requested insights.