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A Checklist: 10 Signs You Shouldn’t Hire a Sales Rep

SaaStr

So you’re hiring your first few sales reps in the early days? Before you have a great VP of Sales? So you need a very certain type of sales rep. They’re Late Many will challenge me here, but if they’re late to the interview, they’ll be late to customer calls, too. That’s fine.

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95% of VPs of Sales Won’t Thrive at Your Startup

SaaStr

So we’ve talked so much over the years on SaaStr on how to hire a great VP of Sales, the difference they’ll make, and how the level-up comes quickly. And VPs of Sales do, too. Don’t hire a VP of Sales that isn’t truly comfortable selling to your buyer persona, especially in B2D and fintech.

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

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Fractional CROs and CMOs: The Only Times I’ve Ever Seen Them Work

SaaStr

They usually come in and handle compliance and oversight for an existing finance team that perhaps lacks the seasoned experience to handle models, venture capital and debt, prepare for an audit, etc. For sure, if you have a strong existing sales team that needs some mentorship, I can see a Fractional CRO working.

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The Intersection of AI and Security: What’s New at Secureframe with CEO Shrav Mehta

SaaStr

In the latest episode of our What’s New series, Founder and CEO at Secureframe, Shrav Mehta, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Secureframe, a rising SOC-2 and compliance software company breaking out in SaaS. So the time to implementation and compliance is much quicker now than it used to be.

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When should you hire a CFO?

Point Nine Land

The issues are real and include:  —  @jasonlk In a funny coincidence, one of our portfolio CEOs wrote me an email with the subject “Should we be hiring a CFO?” Contract reviews with big clients, compliance matters, any type of changes of law, tax audits, dealing with advisors, etc. Some time around the $0.5–1.5

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The Secret to Global Sales Expansion in Uncertain Times

Sales Hacker

Elements of Successful Global Sales Expansion. “Be So, let’s look at four keys to a successful global sales expansion. Most reps will need local language, data centers, and compliance , but it’s unlikely you’ll enter the market with all of these figured out. Hire the Right Leaders.