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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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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. Brian, who was helping venture-backed startups with marketing, noticed that people had gotten really good at ignoring intrusive advertising. Now, without any further ado, let’s see what we can learn from HubSpot… (Image source).

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

SaaStr

I think one thing about RJ Metrics that maybe goes on that list of mistakes is that even though we founded the company in 2008, the next thing that happened the day after we founded the company was the Lehman Brothers collapsed and the venture capital market was non-existent. The next time it gets a little easier.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil. Talk: Panel on Best Practices of Hiring for Culture Creation.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. And I remember they were born in 2004 our business was kind of at the bottom but they were also wound up being born nine weeks premature. We’re starting to having lay people off.” ” We had to do that three times.