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CRO Confidential: Sales Recruitment in 2023 For Candidates and Hiring Managers With Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond and Flexport Fund’s Ben Braverman (Pod 629 + Video)

SaaStr

In particular, hiring for your sales team is critical in an uncertain economic outlook. Additionally, sales professionals looking for a new role should choose their next company wisely. Great Companies Attract Great Talent Blond and Braverman have enjoyed successful careers as sales leaders in high-performing companies.

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

You were the shoulder I would go and cry on anytime I would have some sort of executive-level problem or executive recruiting problem. We’re coming at it from the lens of not being recruiters. We spend time looking at their org savvy, their leadership skills. We’re coming at it from the lens of being advisors.

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12 Leaders on the Top 10 Sales Compensation Challenges in 2023

Sales Hacker

Sales compensation planning can be a tricky beast to tame — but know that you’re not alone. I asked 12 incredible sales leaders across the SaaS industry to share their biggest challenges with comp planning and how to overcome them. Related: New to sales compensation planning? Top 10 sales compensation challenges.

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A Holistic Approach to Compensation Structuring with Scott Barton

Sales Hacker

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Scott Barton , VP of Industry Solutions at Varicent. He’s an expert in the sales world, particularly in revenue operations and incentive compensation. Join us for a great conversation about driving the right behaviors within your sales team. powered by Sounder.

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11 Things That Set The Best Salesteams Apart From The Rest

SaaStr

A few factors that contribute to high-performing sales teams: High quota attainment. The best startups invest in their sales teams and work hard so most of the reps hit and exceed quota. Turning over a sales team is very hard on the organization. A great VP of Sales is worth her weight in gold. They have low attrition.

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The Three Questions to Ask When Hiring Your Startup's Head of Sales

Tom Tunguz

As he told me a few days ago, he has observed the lack of sales management and sales execution skills as one of the most consistent deficiencies limiting the potential of early stage SaaS companies. Sales execution deficiency manifests itself at roughly the same time as product market fit.

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Three lessons I’ve learned building a Customer Success team from different backgrounds

ChurnZero

When I ventured out to build my first Customer Success department at a tech software company, my leadership team thought I was nuts. At the time, I was a sales engineer, and my job was to close deals and move on to the next prospect. However, I found there were two flaws in our customer management process.