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The Top 10 Mistakes People Make When Hiring a VP of Sales with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

SaaStr’s own Jason Lemkin shares the top 10 mistakes he sees during the hiring process during Workshop Wednesday, held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Hiring a VP of Sales Who Never Really Understands Your Product During the Interview Process You can’t really learn on the fly, not in most spaces anyway. There’s no way.

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Market Gaps: 10 Ways to Spot Untapped Customer Needs

User Pilot

Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. You can collect feedback from your customer base via in-app surveys, feedback widgets, interviews, and by monitoring social media mentions and reviews.

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What CEOs Should Know About Recruiting Top Talent

OpenView Labs

This is a recap of OpenView Talent Partner Steve Melia’s workshop. . Most CEOs/hiring managers have zero experience working with an outsourced search firm—and they don’t have an understanding of which firms are relevant to engage. It can take hours to source, connect with, and interview just one candidate. Prices are outrageous.

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Product Judgment: How some people can repeatedly create product success

Intercom, Inc.

These experiences, whether it is observing someone use your product, or interviewing them about your product, need to be wide ranging. The ability to ask perceptive questions is critical to running high signal interviews from which you can learn the most. This is why when I run customer interviews, I always cover a lot of ground.

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20+ LinkedIn Profile Tips (Guaranteed Ways to Stand Out)

Buffer Resources

I've earned millions in salary and consulting contracts, 100 percent inbound driven. The compounding network growth, career growth, personal brand growth, etc has translated into referrals, positive recommendations and 6 figure client contracts. Host podcasts and workshops. Literally millions of dollars.

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How to Promote a Bootstrapped Product When Your Competitors Are Getting a Lot of Money from Investors. The Talk with AdPage

Kraftblick

As I understand it, you are currently promoting AdPage with the help of special “Social Media Entrepreneur” workshops. Currently I work with 5 developers: 4 of them work full-time, one part-time. I am not a coder, and I am engaged in marketing, seeking new employees, and developing a business. It is more effective. —

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Work-Bench and Initialized Capital — May 8, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Work-Bench, Jessica was a Learning and Development Manager at Cisco Systems, where she worked with the Engineering organization on Agile transformation, innovation and culture. He’ll cover remote work, team management, sales, marketing, product development, and more. This podcast is sponsored by Guru. Harry Stebbings.