Whenever you are going to hire a senior team member, you’ll likely go through 3 stages of denial as a founder. We don’t need that role right now. I can find the right person on my own. They will grow into the role. Typically, you’ll go through these...
Jos White, Founder at Notion Capital, interviews Brynne Kennedy, CEO and Founder at Topia at SaaStr Europe earlier this year. After raising over 100 million, Brynne has built Topia to 200 employees with 8 offices globally. She talks about her early days at Topia, how...
This is a must-watch for those who are trying to scale their sales reps and organization for enterprise sales. Philippe Botteri, Partner at Accel, interviews Jeremy Jawish, CEO at Shift Technology. Jeremy talks about his organizational structure across multiple...
Evgenia Plotnikova, Principal at Dawn Capital, goes through the perfect time you should ask for funding both when you are building and scaling your product. She debunks 3 common myths about funding. Myth 1: You always need a VC. She says she spends half of her time...
Chief Product Officer at Adobe, Scott Belsky, discusses his beliefs on creating the first mile of your product. His immediate suggestion is to focus on your newest customers. Why? You can learn the most about what problem your product solves or value it provides. Once...
David Hornik, General Partner at August Capital, says all the taboo things that most VCs won’t talk about. With his background as an attorney with Jason Lemkin, to present day VC, he shares some of his stories and lessons he learned along the way. Also, if you...
Mallun Yen, COO at SaaStr interviews Magdalena Yesil, one of the pioneers in the SaaS industry. She’s the first investor and founding board member of Salesforce, author of Power Up, and founder of Broadway Angels & DriveInformed to name a few. You may also...
This session at SaaStr Annual 2018 featured Quang Hoang, CEO of Plato HQ and Jeffrey Queisser CoFounder and SVP, Engineering of BOX. They talk about the pyramid you need to have in your startup to attract and retain the best engineers as you scale. Also, don’t...
Well-known storytellers, Jason Katz – Chief Storyteller @ Pixar, and Peter Arvai – Co-Founder & CEO @ Prezi, held a powerful session on all things storytelling at SaaStr Annual 2018. Are you struggling with telling your founder story or pitching to...
This session with leaders in the customer success space discusses best practices for your customer success teams in 2018. They talk about when to hire your VP of Customer Success, qualities to look for in your team and how to ask for feedback at the best times in the...
General Partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, Mamoon Hamid, and CEO at Netskope, Sanjay Beri, talk about building your company for 100+ years. Sanjay discusses scaling your culture throughout your journey. He also shares his tips on hiring in the...
This fireside chat with, Nicolas Dessaigne, CEO @ Algolia and Edith Harbaugh, Co-Founder & CEO @ Launch Darkly, discusses building a culture that scales. In the early days, Nicolas mentions how Algolia’s culture continued to break as he scaled. As of today,...
At SaaStr Annual 2018 a few months ago, Sam Parr, Co-Founder and CEO of The Hustle, interviews Shan Sinha, Founder and CEO of Highfive. They talk about Shan’s history in SaaS including Google acquiring one of his previous startups, DocVerse, which created the...
At SaaStr Annual 2018, Tom Hale, President of SurveyMonkey, talked about SurveyMonkey’s success in customer satisfaction. He talks about NPS, how to understand it and utilize the data from your NPS to improve your product(s) and customer happiness. Also,...
At SaaStr Annual earlier this year, VP of Growth at LinkedIn, Aatif Awan, had a session on expanding internationally. Has your SaaS startup gone global? If so, what tips and tricks do you feel helped you get to that point? His 6 step framework can be applied to any...
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