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

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Now, I just invest in SasS companies. How do I increase pricing? When you hire a VP of Sales and all they want to talk about in the interview is strategy, strategy, strategy, I’m not sure they’re a closer. If you’ve hired the VP of Engineering, impossible hire, but when they love something, they jump.

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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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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. * What are the leading indicators that a sales rep is successful? So that was something that we did well. That sounds good.