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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. . Recruiting top talent is the common denominator across all scaling startups. Nine out of 10 founders and CEOs I connect with are involved in recruiting on a weekly, if not daily, basis. Recruiting is very time-consuming. It’s a lot.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: CEOs of Gainsight, Roam and SaaStr — and Tunguz and Kellogg

SaaStr

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 15+ of The Top Sales & Marketing Mistakes SaaS Startups Make (Updated) Cloudflare: Our Top Reps Are Hitting 129% of Quota. 7 Things All Founders Should Know About Sales with Dave Kellogg: SaaStr Workshop Wednesday LIVE 2.

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I Hired My VP of Marketing at $20k MRR. It Wasn’t a Week Too Early.

SaaStr

Most of us can’t afford to hire a VPM 12 months before we have our first customer, and we can’t survive through 10 sales reps without one. It’s not quite as terrible as waiting too long for a VP of Sales. A great VP of Marketing can help make the sales reps better qualitatively, even before you have a VP of Sales.

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How To Land Enterprise Clients As An Early-Stage Company With Hugo CEO & Co-founder Simone Bartlett (Video)

SaaStr

In this week’s Workshop Wednesday , Simone Bartlett, the CEO & Co-founder of Hugo, talks about tactical tips for landing enterprise clients as an early-stage company. Before you rush in for the sale, you need to assess everything. Remember, not every conversation is a sale. Recruit advocates (actual insiders) early.

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20 Incredible New Experiences at 2020 SaaStr Annual

SaaStr

With Dreamforce and SaaStr Europa and Scale behind us, little tiny Team SaaStr is 100% focused on 2020 SaaStr Annual. 250+ AMAs, Workshops, Super Braindates, and more. 250+ AMAs, Workshops, Super Braindates, and more. 100+ Workshops. We’re boosting that to 11 this year with 100+ Workshops. Recruiting Fair.

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

Buffer Resources

I’ve never created LinkedIn content with the “goal” of lead generation or immediate-term sales. Another cool example I really like is Tito Bohrt — he stands out with the pseudo, “ Sales Mad Scientist ” — which demonstrates confidence and a unique identity online.

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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

SaaStr

Founders were able to recruit on-site. Fast forward to today, and there is an amazing amount of B2B-centric content out there, and many others have put together amazing events around the hard-learned lessons of scaling revenue and scaling SaaS companies. 2017 The Third SaaStr Annual: Scale Together.

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