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The 2 Things To Look For — At a Minimum — In Any First VP of Sales

SaaStr

I’ve written a lot about this, but for most start-ups, you can boil it down to two criteria any first VP of Sales just has to meet: Has she built at least a small team before? This isn’t the same as having been a great rep herself, or having inherited a team. This is a tough skill to develop. More here: [link].

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The Two Most Important Things To Look For When You Hire Your First VP of Sales

SaaStr

Has she built at least a small team before? This isn’t the same as having been a great rep herself, or having inherited a team. Do the diligence here to make sure she’s really been able to recruit at least a few successful reps. This is a tough skill to develop. Has she sold as your price point, approximately ?

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GTMfund’s 3 Areas of Focus for Investing

Sales Hacker

That’s why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report — to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. We’ve shared this or received it from many GTM leaders as an excellent gauge on where to start or further AI adoption for your sales team. Product : HG Insights. Feeling that AI FOMO? You’re not alone.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Get best price tickets here!!! So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. This session is particularly fun to look back on.

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SaaStr’s Podcast “Best Of Guide” Our Top 10 Podcasts of All Time

SaaStr

David’s successful exits as an investor at Matrix include HubSpot, JBoss, AppIQ, Tabblo, Netezza, Diligent Technologies, CloudSwitch, TribeHR, GrabCAD, OpenSpan, and Enservio. What are the key inflection points of company development? How should early-stage startups approach the topic of pricing? Episode No. Episode No.

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

Plus, the price tag on those more established businesses often run into the billions. From Facebook to Microsoft, there is a massive trend to seek out tiny teams of five or less, buy them, and use the technology and talent to gain a competitive edge. The Attractive Price Point of Micro Startups. The solution?

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8 Customer Discovery Questions to Validate Product Market Fit for Your Startup

Tom Tunguz

Customer knowledge, both qualitative and quantitative, informed product development, and that research became a key part of AdSense’s success. A few years later when I joined Redpoint, I learned that venture capitalists perform similar customer research during diligence. How important is this product compared to other software?