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Why Founder-Led Sales Breaks Earlier Than You Think

SaaStr

Founder-led sales generally stops scaling around $1m-$2m ARR. A sign to hire a real sales leader. Over the years at SaaStr we’ve talked a lot about hiring a great VP of Sales, when it works, when it does, and how it moves the needle. To stick with founder-led sales longer than most folks do, i.e. past $1.5m-$2m ARR or so.

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Things That Are Different As A More Experienced Entrepreneur

SaaStr

Still, an overall deep-dive on lessons learned the second and third time around: Not Easier : Recruiting – Not Easier. You might think after (goodness) the best part of 20 years of working in tech, 18 as an executive or CEO, and 13 as a founder … I’d be pretty good at recruiting at this point. I’m not.

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2018 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Here is our collection of the Inside Intercom highlights from 2018. Bots have the potential to deliver radical efficiencies and help businesses meet consumer expectations. In the face of this technology, businesses have three options – ignore it, see adoption as a box-ticking exercise or embrace it and think long-term.

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The Top Sessions of SaaStr Scale: CEOs of Okta, Airtable, Safegraph, Blackline and More!!

SaaStr

There are so many good ones, but these should keep you busy watching for the next few days! #1: On how to recruit in the early days, when not everyone gets it. How to recruit in a less hot space. On how and when to be respectful to potential partners, like Salesforce. This was even better than I expected. And much more!

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Sales Hacker’s Yearly Recap & 2018 Roadmap For Growth (VERY Transparent)

Sales Hacker

Before we get into our 2017 recap and 2018 road map, I wanted to provide some quick background on how Sales Hacker came to be. How It All Began: The Story of Sales Hacker. I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since we threw our first Sales Hacker Conference in September of 2013. 2014: Full Time on Sales Hacker.

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The 6 Things The Old Me Would Tell The Young Me

SaaStr

I did a version of this Old Me-Young Me post in 2018. In 2020, that same business will be doing $300m ARR. You will be able to do a secondary sale of some of your shares if you continue to do well. Recruiting is hard. I thought it could bear with an update, given the unique times we are in. Very far from today.

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Meet your first wave speakers for Customer Success Summit 2018

Totango

Our world-class speaker lineup for 2018 Customer Success Summit will share the impressive business results that customer success best practices should deliver. Manager, Partner & Customer Experience. Dante is the Manager of Partner & Customer Experience at Google Cloud. Dante Otero.