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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. They can also help secure the data, reporting, process, and discipline a business need to evaluate progress so it can develop the accountability necessary to drive operational excellence. The path to success is not linear.

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

People talk about B2B marketing. People talk about B2C marketing. Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. But you’ve always coined this phrase “business to human marketing”, B2H. Some developer’s tinkering with something. We’ve got to buy it.”

Scale 109
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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

People talk about B2B marketing. People talk about B2C marketing. Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. But you’ve always coined this phrase “business to human marketing”, B2H. Some developer’s tinkering with something. We’ve got to buy it.”

Scale 46
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There are No Shortcuts: 5 Hard-Won Lessons from Zenefits CEO Jay Fulcher

OPEXEngine

“I’ve talked to countless entrepreneurs who are anxious about the next step—first seed round, hiring a team, landing a board member, etc.,” That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. As you start to develop a go-to-market strategy, “make sure to think through the process holistically,” says Jay.

Scale 52
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How Companies do Software Training and Onboarding

Upscope

This partly due to control but also the realisation that a company focusing on developing one application is likely to build a better app than a company building multiple applications into a big all-in-one solution. I'd expect development tools to rise up this list over time as it's a huge growing market and the competitors are flooding in.

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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

OpenView Labs

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. The answer likely depends on your market segmentation, as freemium may ease adoption friction for SMB/mid-market companies.

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Sales Hacker’s Top Sales Trends & Predictions You MUST Be Aware Of In 2018

Sales Hacker

Full impact of new GDPR regulations and compliance laws – likely to hurt many outbound focused businesses who fail to comply. Top Sales Trends & Predictions of 2018: Buyer Side Technology Continues to Disrupt Sales Development & Demand Generation. The Continued Emphasis on Alignment of Sales & Marketing.

Scale 96