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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

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They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. And I get a call on my phone from our bank, Citibank, Greg, my banker, for years through 2008, like, “Greg, how you doing? We have a 60% chance that we can do it.

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

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How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? And that led me to co-founding a company called RJ Metrics in 2008 with my co-founder Jake Stein, who was also at Insight. Is that not?

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How QuikNode is Handling Growth in the Blockchain Industry

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While blockchain technology was spearheaded by Bitcoin starting from 2008, using the technology for other applications became popularized around 2017. what we use today) advanced mobile usage, cloud infrastructure, and interactivity through social media, Web 3.0 Table of Contents. In the 1990s, Web 1.0 Where Web 2.0

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From Idea to Billion Dollar Business: the RingCentral Journey (Video + Transcript)

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We replace on-prem software and hardware with a pure cloud solution. That means lots and lots of hiring and I don’t want to say firing, we did fire anyone, but people get reshuffled, you know? Jonathan : Did you have to do any sort of big steps hiring wise? Vlad : Well we did have to hire a new CFO. Jonathan : Right.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

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Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level. And for good reason.