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On Recruiting: The Must-Have / Nice-to-Have List

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Rephrasing Lewis Carroll, “if you don’t know what you’re recruiting for, any candidate looks great.” ” I liken executive recruiters to Realtors. ” That know-not-what, by the way, is that it’s for sale. Let’s switch to executive recruiting. Sound judgment and maturity.

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Why You Should Consider Eliminating the Title “Implementation Consultant” from Your Startup

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I’ve worked with several startups that fell into the following pattern: Selling a SaaS application at a healthy price (e.g., If you sell: A recruiting app, running your first recruiting campaign. A sales enablement app, it’s training your first reps. 100K to $200K ARR). I have no idea.

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A Ten-Point Sales Management Framework for Enterprise SaaS Startups

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In this post, I’ll present what I view as the minimum sales management framework for an enterprise SaaS startup — i.e., the basics you should have covered as you seek to build and scale your sales organization [1]. Pipeline management rules, with an optional stage matrix. Management rules (e.g.,

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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

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David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Head of Sales. VP Sales (45 Employees). billion in 2012.

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

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Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

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5 Things to Look for When Hiring Salespeople

Sales Hacker

Whether you need to hire dozens of sales reps in the next few months or you’re a scrappy startup and need your first three sales hires, building a business will nearly always involve hiring for sales. According to Insightsquared, recruiting should take up to 20% of time for a C-level executive. Coachability.

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Startup Sales: Everything You Need to Know About Building Your First Sales Team

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But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. Startup founders are stretched thinly like silly putty. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. Your first sales playbook.