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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

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19 SaaS Predictions For 2021 and Beyond

OpenView Labs

“The prevailing go-to-market structure for SaaS companies in the last decade is through an inside sales team. Virtually all inside sales teams were forced to go remote in mid-March and haven’t been back in the office since. Teams are starting to ramp back up, and the next chapter of inside sales is a little wild.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. We work with many of the companies who are here at SaaStr, Salesforce, Slack, Twilio, Zoho, and I hope many of you in the room. Dare I say SaaS.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem. And also my personal life, my wife and we, well luckily I found out we were pregnant but we were having twins.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Krish made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found one of India’s fastest growing SaaS companies in Chargebee? Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do?

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How Smart Contingency Planning Helped Salsify Get Through the Hardships of Covid-19

OPEXEngine

With an annual plan and reassessment cadence set, each year the Salsify team stress tests their plan, asking: What would happen in the event of a recession? Would customers stretch out payment terms? They expected customer churn to go through the roof, so they preserved account managers to focus on cross- and up-selling. “We