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

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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. I’ve got 5,000 people on it, but I’m only doing $10,000 a month in revenue. That’s my background. I can help.

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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? 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.