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What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In?

SaaStr

IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m 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. ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m More here: [link].

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Don’t Hire VPs With The Wrong Titles

SaaStr

Dig deeper on a lot of titles during recruiting. A "VP of Revenue" often knows nothing about inside sales or building a sales team. A "CRO" often doesn't want to do sales anymore. What’s the hack? The hack is that certain titles aren’t what you think when you screening candidates.

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What’s The #1 Challenge After $1m-$2m ARR?

SaaStr

In SaaS, it is recruiting your VPs and management team : SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. Finding, hiring and retaining these VPs is challenge #1 for scaling up. She can be your CTO forever.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

SaaStr

In SaaS, once you have even a few million in ARR, the #1 challenge is recruiting top-tier VPs and building a truly top-tier management team: SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. She can be your CTO forever.

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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. Then, the sales team went to work. In his opinion, the hiring process is a preview of their sales technique.

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Culture Summit 2015: How to make firing employees into an unscalable growth hack

CloseSaaS

While everyone likes to talk about all of their great hiring and recruiting hacks, no one likes talking about having to fire employees—until now. How do you build a great startup culture?

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Build a Growth Team For Your Startup?—?Step by Step Guide

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

If yes, then keep this advice as a treasure in your bucket list- always hire the best employee for your company. the man who coined the term growth hacking?—?describe Certain, several entrepreneurs experienced the growth of their business with the help of more conventional strategies like inbound marketing.