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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

SaaStr

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. I don’t know anything about sales.

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A Look Back: Everything Breaks When You Go Into Hypergrowth Mode, with UiPath’s CMO (Europa Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The company scaled from a hundred people to 800, last I know, but it changes every day. I can give you marketing examples about how robots are sitting on my laptop and then in the cloud doing work for us that we hate doing, the work that is done in a contact center or in an airline or work that’s done in your finance business.

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How To Build (And Scale) A Successful Sales Team

Sales Hacker

”Tito, how do I go about building a sales team (especially the sales development function) from scratch?” ” It usually comes from founders, or the first sales hire at a company. 1) Training SDRs as if they were Account Executives. 2) Hiring junior SDRs and giving them full freedom.

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??Shep Hyken on getting customers to come back again and again

Intercom, Inc.

I talked to a number of people and asked them, “If every airline took away the miles and you couldn’t get those free trips anymore, would you continue to fly on that airline?” This is Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on driving business growth through customer relationships. That’s unfortunate.

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“From Hackathon to Unicorn” Talkdesk Co-Founder Tiago Paiva and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Some of these sales reps want more than a $100,000 a year, don’t they? What we do is, really, we provide an easy-to-use software that any company can use to take support calls, sales calls, and basically contact with the customer. We want to pick up the phone and call the airline, call Uber asking for our food.

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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. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Leading commerce platform Shopify helps merchants set up and manage their business and stores across various sales channels.

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Starting a SaaS in Berlin – 3 years in

Chart Mogul

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.