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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And so, I consult and advise for startups about 35 startups over the last three, three and a half years. So talking about hiring your first VP of Sales is obviously everybody knows the stat about what percentage of startups fail. What percentage of startups ultimately will not make it? Anybody want to share that?

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

Before the hiring process, take some time to decide on your current needs and hire as your company grows. For example, a startup might not need a sales manager or a fully-fledged sales team in its early days, but a UX designer is an absolute necessity. A higher revenue growth rate generally indicates positive business performance.

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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Selling has changed since Predictable Revenue was published. Here comes the problem with the Predictable Revenue playbook.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

290: Yousuf Khan is a serial CIO, start-up and VC advisor. Harry Stebbings: And so with that, I’m super excited to welcome Yousuf Khan, serial CIO, startup and VC advisor. As you know, I’ve spoken to many of our mutual friends in the VC, in the startup ecosystem. It’s that simple. Yousuf Khan: Yes.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. And my father was in pump business. And by 2003 we were almost out of business.

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best. We were part of the office of the CTO.