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The Perils and Pitfalls of the “Been There, Done That” VP: Posers and Mercenaries

SaaStr

Sometimes it’s VP Sales (OK, often, this is the most common mishire — another post here on what a really great VPS can do for you, and how a poor one can wreck your company, coming). The #1 reason to do a start-up is Career Development. It’s one of our enduring topics on SaaStr. Sometimes it’s VP Marketing.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

Founded : 2015. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Launched in 2005 in New York and Guangzhou, Gizwits has become the largest IoT development platform in China, as well as its first PaaS and SaaS platform. Founded : 2015.

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The Future of AI in Sales with Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov

SaaStr

Back in 2015, Google AI beat the world chess champion easily. Every week, there are significant new developments in tech. If you go to a team and say, “I can do 70% of what your team is doing now automatically and at a fraction of the cost.” It’s a playbook you’re developing, and it’s not easy. You can’t sell hype.

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The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. In January of 2015 I was hired by PatientPop as the VP of sales. We’ll talk about some of the stuff that you do as you grow your team a little bit and then we’ll sort of wrap it up with some advanced stuff.

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What’s New at Greenhouse: $200M ARR, AI in the Real World, Going Big with PE, and More

SaaStr

Could something like the Greenhouse of 2015 even make it to market today? If one resume says software engineer and the other says developer, AI can converge these skills so people don’t slip through the cracks because they typed a title incorrectly. Daniel’s team is an anti-gravity device.

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The evolution of Ember at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Frameworks have drastically improved the capabilities of small teams to produce amazing experiences for people in very short periods of time. This is a slide from a talk that I gave in 2015. We have a small but really great infrastructure team who help maintain fast development environments. Preferred choice.

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3 Questions for Startups to Answer for Themselves in a Volatile Fundraising Environment

Tom Tunguz

65% of entrepreneurs believe that fundraising in 2016 will be more difficult than in 2015, according to First Round’s survey. The volatility in the stock market, the steady erosion of public multiples, and the broad decline of seed, venture and growth investment in Q4 2015 seem to portend a repricing of the startup market.

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