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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. Now, I just invest in SasS companies. Make the revenue recur, I’m interested. up that is sub one million in recurring revenue? One of maybe the top 10 mistakes everybody makes is they want to hire this VP of sales too early. That’s my background. Who has a start?up

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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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This is the revenue growth for HubSpot leading up to the IPO. 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. I just can’t do that.”

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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.