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What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024

SaaStr

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. Q: What is the Future of Lead Generation, and How Do You Stand Out? But they should.

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

SaaStr

No one spends enough time recruiting as it is, after $1m ARR or so. Yes, you can manage the sales team yourself. 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.

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Stop Following These 10 Terrible Pieces of SaaS Advice with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin (SaaStr Podcast 682)

SaaStr

On top of that, founders are full of excuses preventing them from scaling. You have to understand how venture capital works. No one has time to have coffee with all of those folks. 2 “Give the VP of Sales more time.” You can’t always expect a great VP of Sales to double sales in 30-60-90 days.

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Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine’s Founder CEO (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Bootstrapped because nobody in their right mind would have actually invested in us back then and took it up until 2014 as a bootstrapped company. year sales cycles. You have to learn things like how do I scale my sales force? Turned out it became who I am.

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. Oh, and do all of this with less time. More sales meetings, more money. More sales meetings, more money. We’re on iTunes.

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

SaaStr

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016.

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

SaaStr

I came back to G2 as a CEO about three quarters ago after a little bit time at SteelBrick. But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours. He was investing in internet companies.