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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

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

” This definition, to reiterate my prior post on the subject , is most useful when it applies not merely to “time-is-money”, but to the speed of learning. Yet they live on borrowed time. Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

This dynamic trio of SaaS experts share how to stay customer-centric and set yourself apart in today’s rapidly changing environment. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company. So really well said.

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

SaaStr

So tell me how did you make your way from the wonderful coast of the UK into the world of SaaS and come to now be one of the leading CIOs in the really rising mega wave of enterprise SaaS? Definitely working on it. Yousuf Khan: Well, it’s definitely evolved over time.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. The bar is definitely higher, but I don’t think that it has to be. Education has impacted both the supply of … we’re talking about the B2B SaaS entrepreneurs and the supply of investors.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

SaaStr

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. How do you have time to have your hands in all this different stuff? He was like, "You should probably hire someone outside of HubSpot for this role, for your growth.".