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Founders Shouldn’t Hire a VP of Sales—Here’s Why

OpenView Labs

According to First Round’s 2019 State of Startups report , sales leadership is the most difficult hire to make. And with sales being a top priority for founders…. …along with it getting harder to recruit top-quality talent… Image: State of Startups. Know how to construct a hiring process that works well.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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How and Why to Use Podcast Marketing? 7 SaaS Companies Advise

Natalia Luneva

We recently hit 33k downloads and have seen tremendous traction through social media with brand mentions since its start in 2019. Our most popular episode was with Sophia Kunthara, formerly at SF Chronicle and now a reporter at Crunchbase News, back in June of 2019. You have to be different to breakthrough in this space. .

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. As a testimony to the quality of their service, Forter was recently again included in Forbes 50 “Most Innovative Fintech Companies In 2019” list. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Airtable and Shopify Plus — October 25, 2019

SaaStr

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Finally before Twitter, Liat was VP of Sales @ Revolution Prep where she led and managed 7 offices. Loving our podcast content?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pleo and Talkdesk — October 4, 2019

SaaStr

This podcast is an excerpt of Gillian’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. You’re facing extremely long sales cycles, which doesn’t really align with the quick results you want to have as a business. How do you structure the sales team given the segment being targeted? Missed the session?

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Introducing OpenView’s Next Generation of Leaders

OpenView Labs

Tom Holahan joined OpenView in 2019 as a Vice President. Dan Heck joined OpenView as a Vice President in 2019. He has worked on our investments in Highspot , optimize.health , Postscript , Project44 , and ZipWhip , focusing on application software companies modernizing real-world industries like logistics, construction, and insurance.