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Get in where you can, gain your experience in the industry and then make a move to the right spot. Start with an early-stage startup. You'll gain lots of exposure, even as a BDR, and that can be leveraged for a pivot to a role that requires more experience.
Smithy
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Director of Sales
There are a lot of start ups looking for their first or early commercial hire right now. 

my advise would be know what you’re getting yourself into if it’s early stage. 

Is the product/market fit there?

what’s the GTM strategy?

what’s the company structure?

what will your responsibilities be?

my experience at start ups are that you get exposure to a lot of things, which can be great, but it’s can be very chaotic and intense, so you need to be ready. 

As I mentioned in a SaaS thread a while back, founders are all the same in terms of jumping on the ‘been there done that’ merry-go-round and it may take a while to get that chance, but if it’s what you want then you need to stick with it 
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When did your hairline start to recede? and do you blame your sales job for it? lol

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