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Things That Are Different As A More Experienced Entrepreneur

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Still, an overall deep-dive on lessons learned the second and third time around: Not Easier : Recruiting – Not Easier. You might think after (goodness) the best part of 20 years of working in tech, 18 as an executive or CEO, and 13 as a founder … I’d be pretty good at recruiting at this point. I’m not.

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The Playbook to Recruiting Your Sales Team with Brex Chief Sales Officer Sam Blond (Video + Transcript)

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Nothing matters but recruiting and using your personal network. Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team.

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

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Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. I was a local sales manager or regional manager.

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What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In?

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— Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 21, 2019. More on that here and a great video discussion below: You’ll probably be ready for your first VP of Sales by $1m in ARR. Ideally, have your VP of Sales on board in time to hire reps 3-300. You’ll need a VP of Engineering by $8m-$10m ARR. ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m

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SaaStr Podcast 259 with Pipedrive SVP of Global Sales Tara Bryant — August 23, 2019

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Even what we could consider “good problems” need preparation, and it starts by understanding your team and your goals, including knowing when and how to recruit members of your team, and building in a way that compliments your growth. This podcast is an excerpt of Tara’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Missed the session?

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11 Things That Set The Best Salesteams Apart From The Rest

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A few factors that contribute to high-performing sales teams: High quota attainment. The best startups invest in their sales teams and work hard so most of the reps hit and exceed quota. Turning over a sales team is very hard on the organization. A great VP of Sales is worth her weight in gold. They have low attrition.

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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

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2019 saw SaaStr Annual’s biggest event yet – 12,000 global community members came together to take over the Bay Area and it became the event Where the Cloud Meets. We sold out Europa 2019 and were immediately planning for 15,000+ Founders and CEOs to attend Annual 2020. Founders were able to recruit on-site.

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