Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources, International Expansion, Leadership, Product, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosThis 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…
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Early, Human ResourcesI started a new job last week. You know the feeling. On Day 1, I walked into a big room of people at SaaStr kicking off on a major project. Initiation…
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Company Culture, Featured Videos, Growth, Human Resources, Leadership, SaaStr Events, VideosAt SaaStr Annual earlier this year, we had a session with Hubspot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. They talk…
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Company Culture, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, Marketing Strategy, Podcasts, Product, SalesWelcome to Episode 191! Kyle Porter is the Founder & CEO @ Salesloft, the leading sales engagement platform delivering a better sales experience. To date, Salesloft have raised over $75m in…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Growth, Human Resources, LeadershipA year or two ago, I was walking on the streets of San Francisco and bumped into a terrific Unicorn CEO. A beloved CEO of a beloved startup. We caught…
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Company Culture, Hiring, Human Resources, Podcasts, ScaleWelcome to Episode 160! Mark Mader is the CEO of Smartsheet, the company that allows firms the best way to plan, track, automate and report on work. To date, they have…
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Company Culture, Fundraising, Growth, Human Resources, Q&AGenerally, if the issues are around: harassment or any inappropriate conduct, or fraud or misleading financials, etc, or something else that is wrong (legally, ethically, morally, financially, etc.) then I…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Early, Hiring, Human ResourcesThe biggest mistake you are probably going in your first year or two to make is hiring B or even C players for key director and VP positions. And these…
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Company Culture, Human Resources, Scale, VideosAs we’re all aware, when your company grows, things start to change dramatically. The way you run a 20-person company is vastly different than how you run a 200-person company….
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Blog Posts, Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resources, SaaStr EventsWe just a few weeks out from the world’s largest non-vendor event in business software — The SaaStr Annual! We’re proud to have 45%+ women speakers this year (of 200+!) and…
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Early, Hiring, Human Resources, Q&AI generally recommend every startup I invest in and/or work with have at least one administrative assistant of some form (in-house or virtual) for each ten employees. Why? You need…
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Career Growth & Advice, Human Resources, Q&AThe first (and only) job I quit, I went to both of my bosses (I had two) and told them The Time Had Come. I had no other job offer,…
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Career Growth & Advice, Fundraising, Human Resources, Q&AWhat firms need what type of help varies, but to succeed as a non-partner, you need to be good at at least one of two things: Picking and screening. This…
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Blog Posts, Diversity & Inclusion, Early, Hiring, Human ResourcesI hope everyone reading this is thinking much more about taking action re: diversity and inclusion than they were 12 months ago. It’s a big topic, but there is one…
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Customer Success, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources, Q&AHire someone. Full time. I know this sounds simple, but in the early and even middle-early days, most startups do not hire someone whose only job is to reduce churn…
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