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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). If you’ve hired the VP of Engineering, impossible hire, but when they love something, they jump. I’ve made a bad VP of Sales hire.

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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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There are rules in starting an enterprise software company. You will fail if you: 1) try to build a suite of products out of the gate, 2) focus solely on SMBs, or 3) have an MBA. Do not…,” and the reason is no one hardly ever has succeeded in building a big business in SMB. A SaaStr Classic!! We rationalized it.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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How does this differ between SMB and enterprise? What are the challenges with enterprise given the long sales cycles? So I went from being a business generalist founder, so prior to that I was in product marketing and product management at VMware, so big enterprise software company. That sounds good.