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10 Rules to Being a VP of Sales in a Startup

SaaStr

Brendon Cassidy, my VP of Sales wrote a version of this piece a while back. I though an updated version of this would be good for founders thinking about hiring a VP of Sales … VPs of Sales themselves … and VPs-to-be to read — Jason, ed. … 10 Rules to Being a VP of Sales in a Startup.

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

SaaStr

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. On the sales side, people hired way too much. More salespeople do not equal more sales. Sam just finished 18 months at Founders Fund after joining in mid-to-late 2022.

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Should Google acquire Salesforce?

SaaStr

For example, Google put a lot of work into Google Hire, its recruiting SaaS product. Salesforce is really 4+ clouds that are all at scale (sales, marketing, commerce and platform). If you also own Salesforce, and you are #3 (Google), you get instant additional cred and footprint with the Fortune 500 and Cloud 2000. Salesforce.

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How To Structure Your Sales Organization For Maximum Efficiency

Sales Hacker

In this blueprint, we provide insights on how to structure your sales organization. The changes in SaaS require that we no longer look at salespeople as individual contributors, but rather a team that crosses disciplines, not just within sales but also across other parts of the organization such as marketing and product.

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The Playbook to Scaling Your Team in Hypergrowth with Flexport CRO Ben Braverman (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

That was the most over the top entrance that the sales leader for a company that moves boxes around the world has ever gotten. So we did about 442 million in sales last year. The top 25 freight forwarders combined to do 100 billion a year in sales. And almost 2000 people. Want to see more content like this?

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The Expanding Role of Marketing in SaaS Companies

Tom Tunguz

When a potential customer enters the consideration phase of the buyer journey, the marketing team transitions the lead to his sales account executive, who educates the customer from the consideration stage through purchase. In higher price point sales, sales picks up the customer after the customer indicates an intent to purchase.

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The Indicators of True, Strong Customer Demand for a SaaS Product

Tom Tunguz

As a seed stage company grows, hires a sales team and deploys the product to more customers, the signs of customer pull evolve. The company transitions from pilots with friendly customers to product sales. As a result of these fast sales cycles , sales people exceed their quotas substantially.