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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. You will fail if you: 1) try to build a suite of products out of the gate, 2) focus solely on SMBs, or 3) have an MBA. million in 2014.). million in 2014.). A SaaStr Classic!!

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So up to 100-150K and SMB, we’re at 2K. For instance, my first rep from Marketo, he was the first rep at Marketo in New York. The peak of your day starts around 3:00PM because that’s when New York wakes up. Gaetan Gache t: The fact that you’re new is actually becomes a negative. In that case, it was Gap.

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GTM 125: From Flip-Flops to a $500M Exit as CRO, Secrets to Scaling with Martin Roth

Sales Hacker

35:30) Optimal team structures for SMB sales organizations. (52:25) And that made it a lot easier for me to build the SMB sales motion that we ended up being the core sales motion that we built at Levelset. It’s in New York. The other thing is, I live in New Orleans. I don’t even know if it exists anymore.

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