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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

And this is why I struggle to say when I started my business, I think in 2004 or five, I started I had a lot of free time because I had just lost my job it is big ERP going word was going down in Germany. So in today’s world, while so many people are working removed, company culture is often getting lost.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2 Billion acquisition is just one milestone in the early innings of the company’s story.

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Subscription Rockstars: How HubSpot Went From Zero to $500+ Million in Annual Revenue

Chargify

Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shash met in 2004 when they were both graduate students at MIT. The founder acknowledged that Lyons was entitled to his own opinion, addressed some of his critique of the company culture and of the business model and even agreed with some of the points he raised. Image source).

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PODCAST 95: How to Nail Your 1-on-1s w/ Matt Cameron

Sales Hacker

Matt Cameron: Back in 2004 was when the first time I started thinking about this. Oftentimes I see six months or a year as a tour of duty to be the feet on the ground that helps hire and ingest new people in a way that’s consistent with company culture and gets them up to speed quickly.

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SaaStr Podcast #341 with BetterCloud Founder & CEO David Politis

SaaStr

David Politis: Yeah, so I started my career in 2004. When I graduated from undergrad, I started at a SaaS company, actually before it was called SaaS, before the term “cloud” was being used. I started at a company which turned out to be one of the first ever cloud PBX businesses in the world.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

What marketing strategies are going to work at different stages of the company, your best practices in hiring, in building company culture, in frameworks for thinking about mission, vision, and values. Bob Moore: All those things the first time you do them they are painful and difficult to formulate.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

Bringing her 15 years of experience in all these organisations, she will share her insights at the panel on company culture. Talk: Panel on Best Practices of Hiring for Culture Creation. In 2004, he became the CEO of Cogency Software. As of 2017, Maíra is the Marketing Director for Latin America for Zendesk.