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

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If it’s helpful to you, it’s got everything from how to build the sales com plan to how to think about hiring a VP marketing and how to hire a customer success thing. If you’ve hired the VP of Engineering, impossible hire, but when they love something, they jump. And let me step back.

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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.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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* What are the leading indicators that a sales rep is successful? How does this differ between SMB and enterprise? Something that we did really poorly at TalentBin early on was not really focusing on a very crisply defined ICP and insufficiently investing in customer success. This is in Founding Sales , as a result.