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Losing Sleep? Hiring Has Officially Replaced Cash as a Key Reason Startup Founders Are Up at Night

OpenView Labs

As part of our last three annual finance and operating benchmarks surveys, we’ve asked nearly 2,000 startup founders and leaders of B2B SaaS businesses this simple question: “What’s keeping you up at night?”. It’s simply about which areas startup founders feel like they may be coming up short, not doing enough, or missing the mark.

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How I Built a Successful International Sales Team From the Ground Up

Sales Hacker

When I landed in Dublin in 2015, I was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed 26-year-old who had severely under-estimated and oversimplified the work in front of me. I was the new Vice President of International Sales & Managing Director for a work management software company called Wrike. A mercenary is driven by the sale.

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How LinkedIn Has Transformed The Businesses of These 3 Entrepreneurs

Buffer Resources

Although not every new connection will lead to an immediate sale, putting yourself out there on LinkedIn can be a powerful way to build a pipeline of potential clients. Although not every new connection will lead to an immediate sale, putting yourself out there on LinkedIn can be a powerful way to build a pipeline of potential clients.

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It’s Getting Hot in Here: Tips For Hiring Tech Talent In An Overheated Market

OpenView Labs

That’s how MIT researchers described it in a 2015 article—they modeled applicants as people waiting their turn for a taxi and employers as the taxis themselves. Faced with one of the hottest recruiting markets in recent memory, many newly remote tech companies have dramatically expanded their hiring borders.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. Before Quip, Sam spent an incredible 3 years at Dropbox where he was the first enterprise sales rep in the entire company. Should you hire 2 at a time?

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

CloseSaaS

How do you build a great startup culture? 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.

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2021 Financial & Operating Benchmarks: How to Become One of the ‘Haves’ of SaaS

OpenView Labs

For publicly traded companies that are growing 50% or faster, median valuation multiples have increased by an incredible 649% between 2015 and August 201. The new data reveals a similar picture for private SaaS startups. . The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. In order for a $1-2.5M