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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

SaaStr

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. SaaStr is Turning 10! That’s my background. More power to you.

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Scaling Faster, Part 2: An AMA with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 583)

SaaStr

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster. Michiel Rauws (@michielrauws2): So, my question is, we’ve been scaling our SaaS business. We can scale accounts, when we get them, very well. Jason Lemkin: Before we get there to this week, super interesting time this week.

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Web Summit Rio 2023: Summary of days 2, 3, 4.

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How To Understand VC In Latin America Rodrigo Baer,co-founder & Managind Partner (Upload Ventures); João Chebante, Owner & CEO (Sinergis) TL;DR Latin America is a first-generation market for startups, and investors outside the region may not have the same references and expectations as in the US or Europe.

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The Best of SaaS at YCombinator: A Deep Dive with the CEOs of Gusto, Amplitude and Plangrid (Video + Transcript)

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Let’s find out from Sam Altman, President at YCombinator and CEOs, Tracy Young, Josh Reeves, and Spencer Skates. As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. Get tickets here. Get tickets here. TRANSCRIPT.

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Advertising Week 360: How to Tell the Perfect Startup Brand Story

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In my 30 years of news reporting for ABC, CBS and CBC News I traveled to more than 40 countries, dodged bullets while reporting on wars, I interviewed prime ministers and presidents. I was introduced to a team of software engineers who’d been working on tech that aligned audio and text so that you could follow it like karaoke. “Why

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week With Rippling and Salesforce — May 31, 2019

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What does Parker do with regards to operational scaling that is unconventional but works? Why should engineers also be doing customer support? * Why should your engineers be heavily involved in the customer support hiring process? What are the benefits of this? What do you look for in those hires? Missed the session?

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

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And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Want to see more content like this session? Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.