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Influence Meets Innovation: How Founders and Cultural Leaders Can Work Together

Andreessen Horowitz

Cultural leaders—athletes, entertainers, and executives—have evolved beyond mere financial backers to highly-engaged strategic partners and advisors for a company’s growth. We saw this happen with Lionel Richie and the cofounders of Devoted Health, Ed and Todd Park. Assessing your risk tolerance is key before making an investment.

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The 9 Worst Sales Mistakes Founders Should Avoid

Point Nine Land

We recently hosted the Point Nine Founders Summit, featuring several panels and presentations from founders, CFOs, COOs, and sales execs on building early sales teams and hiring your first successful sales leaders. A true VP Sales is looking for proof that they can successfully scale a sales org and revenue. Which are you?

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

She has helped a lot of venture-backed companies scale their sales teams and partnered with early-stage companies to find their first crucial sales hire. An industry thought leader, she is often sought out to present at sales, leadership, and women’s conferences, symposiums, and events.

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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)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Lucidchart and Wrike — February 28, 2020

SaaStr

How does this requirement change as the company scales? How does Karl think about doing this at scale? How does Karl think about retaining agility and flexibility with scale? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. What works?

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SaaStr Podcast #364 with Figma Head of Sales Kyle Parrish

SaaStr

As for Kyle, prior to Figma he spent over 5 years at Dropbox achieving some incredible milestones including launching and scaling the Austin, Texas office from 3 to 80 people and being responsible for growing Dropbox’s leading partner ecosystem. Before Figma, Kyle spent close to 3 years as an Account Executive at ADP. Harry Stebbings.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

He became threatened and told me that I had to follow his ridiculously complex and impractical method that required presenting 60+ confusing slides. Instead, what inspired and energized me was presenting, training, and empowering others to succeed. “An entrepreneurial leader and advisor from a technology background.

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