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The Indicators of True, Strong Customer Demand for a SaaS Product

Tom Tunguz

As a seed stage company grows, hires a sales team and deploys the product to more customers, the signs of customer pull evolve. The company transitions from pilots with friendly customers to product sales. As a result of these fast sales cycles , sales people exceed their quotas substantially.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear

Marketing isn’t scheduling a launch and recruiting isn’t timing the start-dates of the next 50 hires in customer service and sales. We didn’t line up that press and have those sales materials and ensure code-quality high enough to scale on day one, without predictability. Recruiting. Predictability.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees.

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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

SaaStr

And then the second question which you brought up, which I think is a tough one, which is if you hire someone that doesn’t have an HR background or comes out of a recruiting or other background, and they don’t have a background in diversity inclusion, how should you approach that as a CO and think about that?