Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Early, Growth, Leadership
For a long while, you probably aren't a great CEO But you know the customersThe softwareThe feature gapsThe roadmapThe competitionHow to sell itHow to market itHow to build it So…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Leadership
Q: Could you talk about your experience with the downside of entrepreneurship or startups? The “downside” of entrepreneurship is that it changes you. Not immediately, but some time around 24…
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Compensation, Early, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts, Sales, Sales
Ep. 379: From how many reps to hire, to compensation models, here are the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales teams and how to avoid them….
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Company Culture, Compensation, Leadership, Podcasts, Sales
Ep. 377: Dave McJannet is the CEO @ Hashicorp, one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies of our time providing consistent workflows to provision, secure, connect and run any infrastructure for…
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Company Culture, Early, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts, Sales
Ep. 376: In part two, ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of…
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Blog Posts, Company Culture, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Videos
Join the discussion on how business can be more than just about profit, it’s also about giving back in any and every way they can, especially in these challenging times…
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Company Culture, Leadership, Podcasts, Sales, Sales
Ep. 372: Latané Conant is the Chief Marketing Officer at 6sense, the company that allows you to achieve predictable revenue growth by identifying accounts looking for your solution, prioritize efforts…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Leadership, Scale
Perhaps the single most important thing you can ever do in SaaS, at least after $1m in ARR or so, is hire the best VPs you can. We’ve talked a…
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Blog Posts, Growth, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, Q&A
Q: How do you deal with bus factor in a startup? We are losing an employee which had a cornerstone role but he was tackling this area alone. Goodness, this…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Leadership
Almost Screwed: Bootstrapping From $0 to $20M ARR in 2 Years with ClickUp https://t.co/lFF2uMeNwq — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (@jasonlk) September 2, 2020 There’s a phenomenon, a type of SaaS…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Videos
Satya Patel | Partner @ Homebrew That technology, as it’s getting cheaper, more flexible, more accessible is democratizing access and doing so most profoundly in industries and functions…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Exit, Exit Strategy, Leadership, Q&A
End of an era. I am sad today https://t.co/oBGDoYcClM — Rashmi Sinha (@rashmi) August 11, 2020 Money matters. Money is part of why we do this, maybe more in the…
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Blog Posts, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, Videos
Portag3 Ventures Partner Chris O’Neill discusses leadership and teamwork lessons he’s picked up in his career through a hobby and a metaphor of sailing. Chris O’Neill | Partner @ Portag3…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Growth, Leadership
Here’s my list of the best golden advice I was given as a first-time — and second-time — CEO: Manage People — In General, and Earlier. The earlier in your career you can…
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Leadership
At the recent SaaStr Summit: Bridging the Gap, Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Slack, shared a funny story. He said with work-from-home, he was able to talk to a lot more…
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