Early, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts Ep. 321: Anthony Kennada is the CMO @ Front, the startup that provides your team with better email so they can treat every customer like your…
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Blog Posts, Early, Human Resources, LeadershipQ: As a CEO of a Startup, Is It Normal to Argue With Your Co-founder Early On? It is common. It is not IME normal. I’ve had 2 incredible co-founder…
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Blog Posts, Early, Q&A, Sales, SalesQ: Are great salespeople born or made? I think they are made in SaaS — but made early. By that, I mean the best SaaS professionals and managers I know have…
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Blog Posts, Early, Featured Posts, LeadershipWhen I was CEO at EchoSign, I made a big strategic error in Year 1. I set an insane plan of going from $0m to $2m in ARR in our…
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Early, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts, Sales, Sales Ep. 317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. To date…
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Customer Success, Early, Fundraising, Podcasts Ep. 315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to…
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Blog Posts, EarlyRight before the current tumult, TechCrunch had me on their Equity podcast to talk about how today was the best in times of SaaS. A lot has changed since we…
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Blog Posts, Early, Q&AQ: How do you acquire customers on a zero dollar budget? You use “sweat dollars” instead: Get any press and PR you can. It doesn’t have to be TechCrunch. Get…
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Company Culture, Customer Success, Early, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts, Sales, Sales Ep. 313: Today we deep dive into what startups can learn from the large SaaS incumbents of today. Sarah Varni: CMO @ Twilio on her biggest takeaways…
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Company Culture, Early, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts Ep. 311: Karl Sun is the Founder & CEO @ Lucidchart, a visual workspace that combines diagramming, data visualization, and collaboration to accelerate understanding and drive…
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Compensation, Customer Success, Early, Marketing, Metrics, Podcasts, SaaS Product Pricing, Sales, Sales Ep. 309: David Skok is a General Partner @ Matrix Partners, the firm with a portfolio including the likes of Hubspot, ZenDesk, Quora, CloudBees and…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Early, Q&AQ: What can you do to lower your customers’ churn rate? A few basic thoughts: Have every customer have a named customer success rep. Every customer. Yes, this is hard…
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Customer Success, Early, Engineering, Podcasts, Sales, Sales Ep: 299: Yousuf Khan is the Chief Information Officer @ Automation Anywhere, the only web-based and cloud-native RPA platform. To date, Automation Anywhere has raised over…
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Blog Posts, Early, Q&AQ: What is your advice for startup CEOs? For first-time CEOs, here’s my top list: Budget 24 months to get to initial traction. It always takes longer than you’d ever…
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Early, Hiring, Leadership, Marketing, Podcasts, Sales, Sales Ep. 297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of…
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