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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

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They’re booking a million bucks a year and then the next person is doing $200k, and then, there are four guys that can’t close anything. You have to create a repeatable process if you’re going to scale up the sales team. The Number One Job of a VP Sales is Recruiting a Great Team. Who did you hire?

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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)

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Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.). I said, “Holy crap.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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What are the core metrics founders should measure to determine the effectiveness of their reps and sales teams? After TalentBin was acquired, I ended up writing a book on startup sales and sales for founders called Founding Sales. How does Pete think about optimizing payback period on a per rep basis? That sounds good.