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All Your VPs Really Need to Do is Tilt the Curve

SaaStr

We’ve written a lot on SaaStr on how to increase the odds your first management team is a success. How to hire a great VP of Sales (tons on that here ). What a great VP of sales really does. What a great VP of marketing really does (tons on that here ). How to manage customer success. About this and that.

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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

SaaStr

I thought it would be worth drilling down deeper into each of them, and sharing the learnings and mistakes: 1/ Spending less time fixing things, more time recruiting senior folks to own them. No one spends enough time recruiting as it is, after $1m ARR or so. Yes, you can manage the sales team yourself. You can do this.

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Scaling from 2 to 200 Employees and 0 to 75,000 Customers with Storyblok CEO Dominik Angerer and VP of Operations Lydia Kothmeier (Video)

SaaStr

In 2019, the founding team at Storyblok set out to create a content marketing solution that worked for everyone—developers and marketers alike. Their first step to achieving this was hiring a sales leader to build a sales team. Outbound: including Account Based Marketing (ABM). Self-service.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

Scale 171
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Which of the Five Types of Data Science Does Your Startup Need?

Tom Tunguz

Weald points to a different model of data scientist, an engineer, not a statistician, who can perform queries and based upon some insights, improve the product with a few code changes and a push to git. Operational data scientists often work in the finance, sales or operations teams at Google. Or another type all together.

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How Natural Language Processing Affects Digital Marketing

Neil Patel

It’s also the driving force behind search engines like Google becoming “smarter.” While keywords are still highly valuable, search behavior is becoming more complex because we expect search engines to understand what we mean. I’m not saying you should turn your whole content marketing strategy over to robots.

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2018 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Analytics, biz ops, marketing, sales, support, recruiting, finance, HR. Jack Jenkins, Senior Customer Support Engineer , and Amanda Rothbard, Customer Support Representative. ” On Sales. What we learned moving sales and product upmarket together. LB Harvey, VP of Sales. ” On Engineering.

Scale 150