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Building a Sales Organization from 0 to 100 Sales Reps with Flock Safety’s CEO and VP Growth

SaaStr

Flock Safety’s Founder and CEO, Garrett Langley, and its VP of Growth, Alex Latraverse, know a bit about sales. Enough to go from 0 to 100 sales reps in about 18 months — and they’re looking to be well beyond 100 by the end of this month. Hiring a VP of Sales. 1 – Have a recruiting strategy.

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5 Predictions for 2021

Tom Tunguz

Database startups, data movement startups, data quality startups, data lineage startups, machine learning startups will be the zeitgeist of the decade as they shape the next wave of massive innovation. The 2020s will be the era of data companies boosting massive markets. M&As and IPOs continue at torrid rates.

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The Different Flavors of Risk Early Stage VCs Take

SaaStr

I’m 100% OK taking a lot of risk here because I know I can help them recruit a local team as much as necessary or desired. Network effects in your product, a marketplace element, or at least some tech/product/non-sales driven reason your app automatically gets more and more dominant as it scales. It just varies.

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How AI is Changing the Sales Process

InsightSquared

For sales professionals, AI is not only impacting your personal life, but it will soon influence your professional work too if it hasn’t already done so. Many of today’s forward-thinking companies have already begun using AI in their sales strategies. Strengthens Communication With Sales Leads.

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The Three Strategic Questions Facing AI Agencies

Tom Tunguz

Since writing The AI Agency: A Novel GTM for Machine Learning Startups , I’ve been meeting many companies who operate this way. These startups use machine learning to disrupt an industry traditionally dominated by agencies: law, accounting, recruiting, translation, debt collection, marketing…the list is long.

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The Sales Enablement Bot I Built at HubSpot

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Today, everyone working in and around sales and marketing knows that bots are hot, in vogue and quite simply, of the moment. In my role leading sales enablement at HubSpot in EMEA, we deliberately carve out time to think about ways to leverage tools, technology and software that will make sales reps more effective.

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How AI Has Impacted the Hiring Process

OpenView Labs

The proliferation of AI-powered tools, software systems, and devices is also dramatically transforming the way that recruiters source top talent. Recruiting technology can bring fresh hiring strategies to life. Modern tools hold the key to tackling areas of recruiting that have historically presented obstacles. AI can help.