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What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In?

SaaStr

IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 21, 2019. He asked which to hire first. If you have a few nickels in the bank, and you somehow find a great VP a half stage or even full stage early, just hire her. Hiring is so hard as it is. Make the hire now.

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Bet On Up-and-Comers. But Add One Veteran For Each $10m ARR.

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And that means your initial leadership team often takes you faster, and further, than you might ever think. The first type is the kind of management team hired by second+ time founders. And if you are, you are going to naturally start off hiring up-and-comers to your first leadership team. And that’s great.

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

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His name is Nate Walkingshaw and he has a book out on product leadership that was recently published, which is an incredible book. That was when we realized we had to go hire some experienced enterprise go-to-market leaders, like Heather Zynczak who runs marketing at Pluralsight. We’re going to change things.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

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of leadership roles. This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech.

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10 Companies Show you their Positioning Strategy for Marketing

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aprildunford - I think you’ll appreciate this video [link] — Brian Corcoran (@brianc13) November 17, 2019. If you position around "time saved" you lose money Jason Cohen has built and sold several companies and is the Founder and CTO of WP Engine. Product positioning matters! Summary of how to 8X your price.

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

This podcast is an excerpt from Karl’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan. They’re like, do we really need one?