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Ten Questions Founder CEOs Should Always Be Able to Answer About Their Startups

Kellblog

Some startups have relatively complete teams while others have only a CEO and CTO and a few functional directors. That takes a lot of hiring and on-boarding risk off the table. For example, say once we have 3 sales reps hitting their numbers we will go out and hire two more. Ditto for most hiring across the company.

Startup 99
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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well. And most of our data now as a software company it’s because that’s my background, but you as a sales professional can go to RepVue and view detailed analytics about sales organizations related to compensation data. Are they hiring? That goes to the hiring manager.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. Just like a whole bunch of people said, “I’ll never hire remote.”