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

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The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. What I want to talk about today is perhaps the mistake that most of us make, by my nonstatistical study, 70 percent of us make, which is not hiring the right VP of sales. That’s my background.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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What are the leading indicators that a sales rep is successful? What are the core metrics founders should measure to determine the effectiveness of their reps and sales teams? Then at TalentBin, realized very early on, “Oh, wow, got to figure out how to sell this stuff, or else the company is going to go out of business.”

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

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Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 The problem is that he was in business school, working towards an MBA. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.). ” [laughter].