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

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With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. We need to hire this new head of sales, who’s going to come in and change the way that we’re going to market. Yep, we did that.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

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Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Perhaps worse yet, long tenured employees of the company began leaving, saying the new focus on growth “didn’t feel Wistia.” At the end of the day, “We broke pretty much everything,” says CEO Chris Savage.

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

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I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. But the other thing that made it successful, in 2004 I went to one of the first Dreamforce’s met Marc Benioff.