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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Hiring, Human Resources, Podcasts, ScaleWelcome to Episode 145! Greg Schott is the Chairman and CEO of Mulesoft, provider of the leading platform for building application networks. Prior to its very successful IPO, Mulesoft raised…
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Career Growth & Advice, Human Resources, Q&AIt is good professional practice to be present. To be fully and highly engaged in whatever you are both directly and indirectly responsible for. To step up wherever you can….
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Career Growth & Advice, Human Resources, Q&AI’d suggest: A Good VP Maintains Velocity in Her Functional Area. This is hard enough as it is. If you grew 100% last year, growing 100% again this year is…
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Blog Posts, Hiring, Human ResourcesPerhaps the biggest difference between most first-time founders and most second-time founders is how long they try to do it all themselves. This isn’t a criticism — the first time…
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