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16 Ways to Level Up in 2022 with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin (Pod 567 + Video)

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Your best sales reps can close so much more than your average rep. Move the bottom 10% out and give the best leads to your top performer, and watch sales go up 20%. The best VPs of Sales design comp plans so the team never wants to leave. You should be striving for zero voluntary attrition on your sales team.

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Scaling from 2 to 200 Employees and 0 to 75,000 Customers with Storyblok CEO Dominik Angerer and VP of Operations Lydia Kothmeier (Video)

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Storyblok started with a leadership-first hiring plan and a recruitment strategy that involved the following: A test to know how candidates handle different tasks and their expertise level. Their first step to achieving this was hiring a sales leader to build a sales team. Prioritize customer and employee satisfaction.

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Scaling from $1 to $10M, an AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Pod 573)

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Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. We did a good AMA on this scaling at SaaStr Europa in Barcelona, a couple weeks back. That will scale, and then take those emails after four great pieces of content and do a weekly webinar and do a weekly get-together for them.

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Dear SaaStr: What Are The Traits That Define a Great VP?

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Or she brings in more leads for the same budget. A great VP of Customer Success in just a quarter or so decreases churn and increases account revenue growth. It’s hard enough just to maintain KPIs and metrics as you scale. Sales growth slowly declines as she struggles to bring in enough reps. jasonlk) July 9, 2022.

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

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We do that with a combination of industry-leading content and community connections. This led to our first meet-ups in 2013 and 2014, the first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , the industry’s leading podcast in 2016, the first SaaS founder coworking space in 2017, and SaaStr Pro , the first learning management system for SaaS founders in 2018.

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Advice Every SaaS Founder Needs to Know in 2024 with Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin

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They discuss Sam’s learnings at Founders Fund, what the 2024 playbook looks like, hiring and motivating sales teams, and a handful of audience questions. Sam just finished 18 months at Founders Fund after joining in mid-to-late 2022. In 2021 and 2022, the money was a net negative, and what GTM organizations did was twofold.

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We Just Launched the SaaStr Europa 2022 Agenda. Get a Front Row Seat When the Cloud Comes to Barcelona!

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Hey SaaStr Fans, With just a few more weeks until SaaStr Europa 2022 – we’re excited to launch the entire SaaStr Europa 2022 Agenda !! For 2 days, more than 50+ sessions and 75 expert speakers will be sharing their best practices in Barcelona on scaling, revenue, recruiting, expansion and so much more.