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10 Rules to Being a VP of Sales in a Startup

SaaStr

Brendon Cassidy, my VP of Sales wrote a version of this piece a while back. I though an updated version of this would be good for founders thinking about hiring a VP of Sales … VPs of Sales themselves … and VPs-to-be to read — Jason, ed. … 10 Rules to Being a VP of Sales in a Startup.

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Khosla Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley. One, a COO.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003.

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Keith Rabois and Founders Fund (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley. One, a COO.

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PODCAST 120: From SpecOps to RevOps: What Soldiering Can Teach Us About Selling with Steven Broudy

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Steven Broudy , Vice President and Head of Sales at Bevy, which helps companies build virtual communities. Steven is a long time SaaS sales executive, having worked at MuleSoft before coming to Bevy. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes.

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PODCAST 90: Key Mistakes Companies Make while Building their Skills or Revenues w/ Justin Welsh

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Justin Welsh , Founder at The Official Justin. Justin is the former SVP of sales at PatientPop and a current advisor to it, as well as a tremendous number of SMB SaaS companies. Top mistakes companies make (hint: it’s hiring). How to manage downwards and upwards.

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Disrupting the Desk Phone: How and Why We Made a $50M Acquisition with Dialpad (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So, I joined Google early on in 2003. The first engineer that I sat next to … And I was in sales. We were always building a full platform that a sales or a support organization could go and buy. In my past career I was running sales organizations who are used to having a target and having a team.