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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. And I love that very much.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With – Lessons From Host Analytics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Do I have the right team? And just because someone was a right member of the team last year doesn’t mean they’re a right member of the team next year. And just because someone was a right member of the team last year doesn’t mean they’re a right member of the team next year. ” Right?

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. And how do you hack it? This episode is sponsored by Outgrow. Jason Lemkin: Crazy.

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Memories of the bad old days

The SaaS Garage

A few days ago I had lunch with some friends, all of them softare and Venture Capital veterans, who I all know from the early days of the 21st century. And no, this gatherng was not triggered by the current crisis but, needless to mention, we did spend some time mingling about the “bad old tmes” of the post Sept.

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Memories of the bad old days

The SaaS Garage

A few days ago I had lunch with some friends, all of them softare and Venture Capital veterans, who I all know from the early days of the 21st century. And no, this gatherng was not triggered by the current crisis but, needless to mention, we did spend some time mingling about the “bad old tmes” of the post Sept.