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GTM 91: Transforming Customer Intelligence, Leading a Company Before Managing a Team and Finding a Rockstar Co-Founder with Linda Lian

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Lessons learned from scaling innovative products and go-to-market motions at AWS. Strategies for recruiting exceptional talent and building a customer-centric culture. 21:12 – Linda’s strategy for recruiting and retaining exceptional talent at Common Room. It’s flexible, scalable ABM built for you.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Mailchimp’s Co-Founder, Y Combinator’s CEO, Workshop Wednesday and More!

SaaStr

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Datadog, ZoomInfo, Atlassian, AWS: Epic Growth — But Some Real Headwinds For The First Time. SaaStr 603: SaaStr CRO Confidential Presents the Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation, Quotas and Recruiting with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Divvy’s CRO, Flexport’s CRO, G2 Reach, Founders Fund’s Partner and more!

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Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. SaaStr 628: Revenue Alignment: How to Pull Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success Together with Divvy CRO Sterling Snow  2. SaaStr 629: CRO Confidential: Sales Recruitment in 2023 For Candidates and Hiring Managers With Flexport’s Ben Braverman   3.

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Every Investor is Different. But Here Are 22 Reasons I Generally Say “No”

SaaStr

If I wouldn’t work for you … then I can’t help you recruit folks that will. You’re in sales. Recruit the VPs? CEO Doesn’t like Sales — and The Hunt. The converse is, a bad arse hacker/engineer that has also learned to love sales. This is sort of awful. And/or Late.

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? Bullseye Product Launches: Tactical Tips From Expert Operators to Nail Your Next Launch

Sales Hacker

Accordingly, the recruiting of beta customers and roadmap selling happen earlier, providing for customer quotes as part of the launch. Joseph Goldberg (Director of Product Marketing at Vanta ) explains that one of the benefits of starting early is that it serves as a forcing function. Make sure your message lands. Keep it simple. “Do

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How to Prepare Yourself to Be a Great CEO

SaaStr

But they are often just awful managers. Manage People. This is one of the best things you can do, because 50% of the job of a CEO is recruiting a team, leading a team, empowering a team, convincing a team. Manage anyone you can, even if it’s not perfect. You probably haven’t done it before. Do dinners.

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Hiring Your VPs: When Can You Compromise?

SaaStr

If you don’t think you need a great VP of Sales, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, and Engineering — then all that all that means is you’ve never worked with a great one. Head of Sales – What Corners Can I Cut? A bad VP of Sales is a total disaster. And to some extent, vice-versa.