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Direct Answer A startup needs its first dedicated sales manager when a single person — the founder or a selling VP — can no longer give every rep real weekly coaching without starving the rest of the business, and this almost always lands i…
Read full answer ↗Direct Answer When you hire reps faster than you can train them, the first thing that breaks is not your headcount plan and not your pipeline — it is the quality of every deal currently in flight and the credibility of your forecast. Untrai…
Read full answer ↗Direct Answer At $5M ARR, hire a VP of Sales, not a Chief Revenue Officer. At this stage your central problem is execution repeatability — turning a founder-led, relationship-driven sales motion into a documented, coachable, forecastable ma…
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