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Things That Are Different As A More Experienced Entrepreneur

SaaStr

Still, an overall deep-dive on lessons learned the second and third time around: Not Easier : Recruiting – Not Easier. You might think after (goodness) the best part of 20 years of working in tech, 18 as an executive or CEO, and 13 as a founder … I’d be pretty good at recruiting at this point. I’m not.

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

SaaStr

I thought it would be worth drilling down deeper into each of them, and sharing the learnings and mistakes: 1/ Spending less time fixing things, more time recruiting senior folks to own them. No one spends enough time recruiting as it is, after $1m ARR or so. Yes, you can manage the sales team yourself. You can do this.

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5 Predictions for 2021

Tom Tunguz

2020 is a year that defines the long tail events, twelve months in which black swan after black swan event seemed to hit the press. Database startups, data movement startups, data quality startups, data lineage startups, machine learning startups will be the zeitgeist of the decade as they shape the next wave of massive innovation.

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Need an Expert for Your Next Panel, Presentation, or Podcast? Here Are Over 530 of the Top Female Sales Practitioners

Sales Hacker

A recent study analyzed data from thousands of events over a five year period and found that approximately 70% of professional event speakers are male. Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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How Startups Can Develop a Positioning Strategy To Create a Lasting Brand with Rosabel Tao

Mucker Capital

This enables the startup to develop innovative and distinctive positioning strategies within the market. For instance, mechanics focus on product innovation and market dominance, mothers prioritize customer relationships and segmentation, and missionaries disrupt industries with visionary concepts.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Work-Bench and Initialized Capital — May 8, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Work-Bench, Jessica was a Learning and Development Manager at Cisco Systems, where she worked with the Engineering organization on Agile transformation, innovation and culture. Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! Where does Jessica find managers and founders do pipe reviews wrong?