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

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If you’ve hired the VP of Engineering, impossible hire, but when they love something, they jump. They know how to the close to develop the relationship. My real point is with the VP of sales you’re probably not going to get the perfect hire. I’ve made a bad VP of Sales hire. How do you do this?

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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? Like a VP of engineering would go to some conference, and hear someone on stage talking about how they need to be spending all their time doing recruiting, etc, etc. * What are the leading indicators that a sales rep is successful? This is in Founding Sales , as a result.