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Forecasting Fintech’s Future and Keeping Culture Alive: A Q&A with the CEOs of BILL and Mercury

Andreessen Horowitz

They also talked about the difficulties — and potential advantages — of selling into small businesses, taking alternative approaches to interviewing candidates, and the importance of keeping culture a vital part of a company as it scales. One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers?

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A Look Back: Talkdesk, Greenhouse, Algolia and Gainsight Coming Up On $10m ARR

SaaStr

Daniel, you grew to 3 million in ARR before you hired a VP of Sales. You had all the reps and SDRs reporting to you, managed it all yourself. How’d you manage all that? Daniel : We followed a lean start up approach to building our sales process. An engineering team and the sales team was me with a laptop.

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The Best Payroll Services (In-Depth Review)

Neil Patel

To help speed up the process, I reviewed six of the best systems on the market and put together a comprehensive list of what to look for as you make your final decision. If you’ve spent some time searching for solutions from Google or asking for peers’ recommendations, you know there are hundreds of payroll companies to choose from.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Account Managers: They serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters. Average salary: $46,035/yr. Average salary: $105,761/yr.

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My First 16: Launching a New Category with Modern Treasury’s Dimitri Dadiomov

Andreessen Horowitz

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. And so it felt like it was a place that was ripe for new software products. And that was the origin story.

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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Customer Insights to Transform Sales Conversations

Sales Hacker

We hear a lot about equipping salespeople with customer insights to help them move from simple questioning to exploring challenges and discussing solutions with customers. Sales customer insights. What are the characteristics of organizations that are likely to make them a good fit for the products and solutions your company sells?