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Starting a SaaS in Berlin – 3 years in

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Talent: One of the most important factors for any technology startup is being able to hire the right people. Of course, some roles are tough to hire for here, especially senior sales and marketing executives (though this is a global problem as far as I can tell). Conclusion.

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Facebook Workplace’s Julien Codorniou on turning companies into communities

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When I started, for example, and as I was building the sales team, I did not realize you could not ask the same sales people to qualify the leads, to close the leads and to deploy the companies. It’s not just for retail or airlines or telcos. We have a lot of people to hire. That’s one of the mistakes we made.

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