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Advice Every SaaS Founder Needs to Know in 2024 with Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Whether it’s a little team or portfolio companies, Jason guesses that 80% of candidates who say they’ll do that end up quitting the interview process. For smaller companies, go after the founders because they likely won’t have finance people yet. For Mid-Market companies, you might connect with people in finance or accounting.

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The 7 Biggest Mistakes CMOs Make (And How to Avoid Them) with the CMOs of Databricks, Zoom, and Okta

SaaStr

“Typically that was the marketing hat in my case, but sometimes it was the sales hat or thinking about finance or other areas of the business. So you need context from leadership to what you ultimately need to deliver on in your function to be successful. And without that context, you lose out.” What do we value?”

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Here’s Who’s Hiring a VP of Sales in January

SaaStr

To help you with your search, we’ve compiled a list of sales leadership opportunities from around our community to help connect leading startups with the best candidates. . Take heart, with the stock market still performing well into 2021 and vaccines beginning distribution across the United States, things are looking up.

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3 Must-Have CFO Skills: Operating Finance, Strategy and Communications

OPEXEngine

Corporate finance experience is declining, while investment banking is rising, as a path to the CFO seat, CFO Dive data shows. The most sure-fire way for aspiring CFOs to attract the notice of CEOs and boards is to bring a strategic mindset, communicate well and showcase a background in operational finance, recruiters say. .

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When You Hire an Executive, You're Hiring a Network

Tom Tunguz

You’ve just raised a round of financing. Second, there’s no leadership/relationship risk. When interviewing for new executive to lead an internal team, interview for the network by asking and digging into the question: “Who are your first 5 hires?” Your next step is to build your management team.

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5 Challenges in Moving Upmarket and How to Overcome Them with Salesforce Ventures

SaaStr

Going upmarket drives category leadership because you establish yourself as the company that the Fortune 500 logos use. Salesforce Ventures interviewed several sales leaders in the space — Gong, Miro, Monday, Okta, and Wiz — to get an informed perspective on the challenges and lessons learned moving upmarket. The lesson learned?

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. We’re not necessarily interviewing them for a specific role in the portfolio. We spend time looking at their org savvy, their leadership skills.