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What Makes a Great VP of Sales and How to Hire One

SaaStr

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail. First, in this post, I want to outline what a VP of Sales in a SaaS company actually does. Because sales is a lead-driven but headcount- closed business. Recruiting.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. So how did they go from product-market fit to actually scaling a sales org around a repeatable sales process? This is episode four of Scale , a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up.

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky.