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10 Learnings From Jeff Lawson (CEO Twilio) + Byron Deeter (Bessemer Ventures): “Adapt, Plan, Deliver”

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He joined StubHub as CTO, but didn’t get nearly as much equity as the other CTO — because he “wasn’t committed enough.” Started Twilio in January 2008, just as the last downturn happened. If your customers love your product now, hire reps. He learned paper millions can go to zero ??.

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

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Jason Lemkin: I think I noticed a pattern, and I wrote it up a couple of years ago and refreshed it, and then I’ll add a new anecdote. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. And the best CTO I know in the world is the CEO. The 60 is probably where your core plan should be.

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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. 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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The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken. TWO ESTABLISHED COMPANIES CHANGE COURSE. in debt to buy out their investors.

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

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Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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How QuikNode is Handling Growth in the Blockchain Industry

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Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. While blockchain technology was spearheaded by Bitcoin starting from 2008, using the technology for other applications became popularized around 2017. Table of Contents. There are so many things that can be evolved,” says Shklovsky.

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

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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? Vlad: So what’s the new reality? And it was like, okay, rather than stretch a few dollars, how do you compress your time? So we needed to kind of get the new mindset going. So do spend the money.

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