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

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It made the rounds in tech circles online. 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.

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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. Reduce failed payments. QuikNode has customers all over the world.

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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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You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. You may have been at Box in 2006 or LinkedIn in 2008. I don’t care.