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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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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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What are the core metrics founders should measure to determine the effectiveness of their reps and sales teams? 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.

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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 This is the revenue growth for HubSpot leading up to the IPO. Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea.