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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. Not during founder-led sales.

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The CCPA Compliance Checklist: Ensuring Data Protection and Privacy

Scytale

As a business leader, ensuring your company’s compliance with privacy laws like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is critical. The CCPA sets strict standards for data compliance , collection, storage, and sharing, to protect consumers’ personal information. Implementing CCPA compliance reduces this risk.

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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. Be careful.

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

SaaStr

To solve this, Deel interviewed 200 founders seeking answers to the question, “If you’re open to hiring internationally and remotely, what are your biggest challenges, and what kind of product can we build to solve them? This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. Support sales early.

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5 Challenges in Moving Upmarket and How to Overcome Them with Salesforce Ventures

SaaStr

As Managing Director of Salesforce Ventures, Nowi Kallen , shared at last week’s Workshop Wednesday, there are five main challenges of moving upmarket and tips to follow if you want to succeed at Enterprise sales in today’s macro environment. Security — SOC 2 compliance is table stakes. Let’s look at the why, the when, and a warning.

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