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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

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Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

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The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken. TWO ESTABLISHED COMPANIES CHANGE COURSE. in debt to buy out their investors.

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From Idea to Billion Dollar Business: the RingCentral Journey (Video + Transcript)

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That means lots and lots of hiring and I don’t want to say firing, we did fire anyone, but people get reshuffled, you know? Vlad: So what’s the new reality? So we needed to kind of get the new mindset going. Stop stretching the dollar, start compressing the time. So before we were optimizing for dollars. Jonathan : Right.

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