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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders? In SaaS, once you have even a few million in ARR, the #1 challenge is recruiting top-tier VPs and building a truly top-tier management team: SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap.

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What’s The #1 Challenge After $1m-$2m ARR?

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Q: What’s the number one challenge for scale-up founders? In SaaS, it is recruiting your VPs and management team : SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap.

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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

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One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. I don’t know anything about sales.

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PODCAST 65. The Framework to Deliver Exceptional Customer Success w/ Kim Rose

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Kim Rose , VP of Customer Success at Buildium. Kim is a successful executive who spent 8 years out of the workforce. She’s walking us through how to render long-term success in the workforce and add customer value in your career. How’d she do it?

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. How do the best onboard their sales reps?

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

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Hire the VP of Marketing, MBA, the VP of Sales, MBA, the VP of Customer, MBA, the VP of Engineering, MBA, and now, the odds of any semblance of survival, let alone success, are vanishingly small at this point. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company.