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

SaaStr

These are all full-time jobs by $1m ARR. Fixing it yourself becomes the biggest time sink and excuse for not hiring there is. You end up spending all your time backfilling roles you should have hired. And even worse, you often sort of give up trying to make the hire. Hard go truly enterprise without it.

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How to Stop Micromanaging After $1m-$2m ARR. You Have To.

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A new edition, new services, an outbound sales team, an account management / upsell team. Something new to boost your ACV and TCV. Double your pricing for new customer, on the largest deals. And importantly, you need to spend more time with your existing customers (vs. Add a layer. At least on the big customers.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

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Before Quip, Sam spent an incredible 3 years at Dropbox where he was the first enterprise sales rep in the entire company. When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time? What does one look for in their first sales hire? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook.

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Making the jump from Customer Success to CEO with FranConnect’s Gabby Wong

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Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. We hire a third-party firm. You run the gamut.

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

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Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

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How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Let’s hire an amazing VP of product who’s going to answer this question for us and kind of have the frameworks to do it.

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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)

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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%.