Company Culture, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts, SaaS Product Pricing, ScaleWelcome to Episode 209! Amanda Kleha is the Chief Customer Officer @ Figma, the startup that allows you to turn ideas into products faster through design, prototyping and feedback gathering, all…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Growth, Scale, VideosAlex Western, Managing Director at Think3, talks about the problem he has seen consistently across SaaS startups that have VC funding – overgrowth. Overgrowth normally happens because of misalignment in…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosRaising Series B is no easy feat for any startup. Liz Fleming at Adara Ventures talks about the current state of Series B and interviews CEO at UserZoom, Alfonso de…
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Career Growth & Advice, Hiring, Leadership, Product, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosHear how Dave Yarnold, CEO of ServiceMax, in partnership with Jason Green, General Partner and Founder at Emergence Capital, navigated the challenges that every CEO faces when building a billion…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosWhat are you doing to build and maintain the culture in your startup? Or has culture been put on the backburner as you have scaled? Well, it’s time to put…
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Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Hiring, Leadership, Product, SaaStr Events, Sales, Scale, VideosJyoti Bansal, Founder and CEO of harness.io and Dev Ittycheria, President and CEO of MongoDB held a fireside chat at SaaStr Annual. They talk about product adoption, sales alignment, freemium…
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Blog Posts, Growth, International Expansion, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosJason Lemkin, Founder & CEO at SaaStr and Christoph Janz, Partner at Point Nine Capital, had an opening session at SaaStr Europe earlier this year. They talk about the state…
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Career Growth & Advice, Company Culture, Early, Featured Videos, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, Other, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos“I think you have to make emotionally difficult choices all along the way to build a healthier company and to make you also, maybe avoid this fate” – Jason Cohen,…
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Blog Posts, ScaleIt’s time to redefine “Unicorn”. It’s not about a billion+ valuation, as crazy high as that seemed 5 years ago. Now it’s about $1b in ARR. The above chart is…
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Blog Posts, ScaleSo Facebook reminded me that 13 years ago today, we launched EchoSign.com on TechCrunch. This is a really, really long time ago in Internet time, with so many lessons learned. …
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, ScaleThis has been a year of incredible M&A, from Qualtrics $8b acquisition by SAP (wow!) to Github’s $7.5b exit to Microsoft (goodness!) to Mulesoft to Salesforce for $6.5b (wow) to…
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Company Culture, Featured Podcasts, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts, ScaleWelcome to Episode 204! Today we’re showcasing our most downloaded podcast of the year! Claire Hughes Johnson is the COO @ Stripe, the new standard in online payments that handles…
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Featured Podcasts, Human Resources, Leadership, Podcasts, Product, ScaleWelcome to Episode 202! Karen Peacock is the COO @ Intercom, the company that provides a new and better way to acquire, engage and retain customers. To date, Intercom have raised…
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Career Growth & Advice, Compensation, Early, Engineering, Growth, Hiring, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosThis 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…
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Company Culture, Leadership, Marketing Strategy, Podcasts, Product, ScaleWelcome to Episode 200! Brad Birnbaum is the Founder & CEO @ Kustomer, the first intelligent platform for customer experience that enables you to know everything about every customer. To date, Brad has…
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