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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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How do the best onboard their sales reps? How can sales calls be used for new rep onboarding? What are the core metrics founders should measure to determine the effectiveness of their reps and sales teams? What are the most common mistakes founders make when hiring their first reps? How should they structure their comp plans? *

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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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Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.). I said, “Holy crap.

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10 Years In Tech

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What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me.