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CRO Confidential: Sales Recruitment in 2023 For Candidates and Hiring Managers With Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond and Flexport Fund’s Ben Braverman (Pod 629 + Video)

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In particular, hiring for your sales team is critical in an uncertain economic outlook. Additionally, sales professionals looking for a new role should choose their next company wisely. Great Companies Attract Great Talent Blond and Braverman have enjoyed successful careers as sales leaders in high-performing companies.

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The Top 10 Mistakes I See In The VP of Sales Hiring Process

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So we’ve spent a ton of time over the years on SaaS talking about hiring a great VP of Sales. Not only because it really matters, but because hiring the wrong VP of Sales can set you back a year — or longer. So many VPs of Sales disagree with me here — at least at first when I make the point. Sales is hard.

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Dear SaaStr: What Are The Biggest Problems You Face as a Startup Founder?

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From $1m in ARR, and Then Forever After: Recruiting Great VPs. You need to learn to become great at recruiting. Why is my sales team less efficient at $20m ARR than at $2m in ARR? Many functions simply need more bodies to keep up with larger bookings goals, and inefficiencies come from that, especially in sales-driven models.

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My 7 Biggest Mistakes as a SaaS Founder-CEO

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Not becoming a better recruiter. I recruited a great VP of Sales, a strong VP of Marketing, a great VP of Product (now COO at Gong), and a great VP of Customer Success. But I was a sequential recruiter. I should have been recruiting more great folks, more often. And most of the team was great.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Grammarly’s CEO, CRO Confidential, Braze’s CEO and lots more!

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to $880 Billion in 2023. SaaStr 602: Secrets To Combining PLG and Enterprise Sales with Grammarly CEO Brad Hoover. ?. SaaStr 603: SaaStr CRO Confidential Presents the Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation, Quotas and Recruiting with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin. Top Podcasts This Week: 1. Top Videos This Week: 1.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Lattice’s Co-Founder & CEO, SaaStr’s Founder and CEO, Heap’s Former CTO, and lots more!

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SaaStr 661: VC AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Black Mangroves MD Arnaud Bonzom at SaaStr APAC 2023  4. SaaStr 658: SaaStr CRO Confidential: Omni Founder Colin Zima on the Power of Leveraging Your Network for Sales and Recruiting                                 Top Videos This Week: 1.

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CRO Confidential: Improve Margins and Beat the Competition for Capital With Sam Blond of Founders Fund (Pod 603 + Video)

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However, don’t this doesn’t mean that your sales teams shouldn’t bring in more revenue –– quite the opposite. Blond says, “You are going to need to figure out how to drive more revenue per sales rep if you are a lower-margin business.”. The 2022 Economic Climate, Barriers to Growth, and Recruitment.